Trimester Seminar
Date: every Thursday, 16:30 and 17:30
Venue: HIM lecture hall, Poppelsdorfer Allee 45 (if not stated otherwise)
Coordinator: Jan Swoboda
Thursday, September 15
16:30 Hartmut Weiß: Energy functionals on the space of G2-forms
17:30 Alexander Kahle: Introduction to differential cohomology theories
Thursday, September 22
16:30 Konrad Waldorf: B-fields and D-branes
17:30 Robert Haslhofer: Compactness theorems in geometry
Thursday, September 29
16:30 Nadine Große: The Yamabe equation on open manifolds
17:30 Arturo Prat-Waldron: An introduction to the theory of supermanifolds
Thursday, October 6
16:30, HIM seminar room (Pop. Allee 45, basement) Frank Reidegeld: Cohomogeneity one metrics with holonomy Spin(7) and their asymptotic behaviour
17:30, HIM seminar room (Pop. Allee 45, basement) Hans-Joachim Hein: Einstein manifolds
Thursday, October 13
16:30 Frederik Witt: Generalized geometries
17:30 Walter Freyn: Kac-Moody symmetric spaces
Thursday, October 20
16:30 Corbett Redden: String structures and loop spaces
17:30 Roger Nakad (MPIM Bonn): Spinc spinors and their geometric applications
Thursday, October 27
16:30 Panagiotis Konstantis: A classification of homogeneous Riemannian spaces in dimension three
17:30 Rebecca Glover: Generalized complex geometry and generalized K3 surfaces
Thursday, November 3
16:30 Michael Struwe (ETH Zürich): Conformal metrics of prescribed Gauss curvature on closed surfaces of higher genus (lecture 1)
Friday, November 4
11:00 Michael Struwe (ETH Zürich): Conformal metrics of prescribed Gauss curvature on closed surfaces of higher genus (lecture 2)
Thursday, November 10
16:30, HIM seminar room (Pop. Allee 45, basement) Alexander Ritter: Floer theory for negative line bundles via Gromov-Witten invariants
Thursday, November 17
16:30 Justin Sawon: Introduction to hyperkaehler geometry
17:30 Robert Haslhofer: Singularities in 4d Ricci flow
Thursday, December 8
16:30 Florian Schmidt: Algebraische Krümmungsoperatoren und Ricci Fluss
Thursday, December 15
16:30 Ben Lambert: A Neumann boundary value problem for Mean Curvature Flow
17:30 Marc Nardmann: An overview of scalar curvature rigidity and non-rigidity
Wednesday, December 21
11:00 Fabian Ziltener (KIAS Seoul): Coisotropic Submanifolds of Symplectic Manifolds and Leafwise Fixed Points