Schedule of the Workshop: Geometric PDEs and integrability

Monday, January 23

9:00-10:00 R. Bryant: Some geometry of characteristic cohomology
10:00- 10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 B. Dubrovin: Phase transitions in Hamiltonian PDEs and integrable systems
11:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 E. Kuwert: Variational problems for the Willmore functional
14:30-15:00 Tea and cake
15:00-16:00 C. Bohle: Spectral curves of Willmore tori

Tuesday, January 24

9:00-10:00 F. Helein: Conservation laws and regularity questions
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 T. Riviere: Some aspects of the analysis of constrained and non constrained conformal-minimal surfaces
11:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 F. Burstall: Isothermic surfaces: an integrable system in conformal geometry
14:30-15:00 Tea and cake
15:00-16:00 D. Zakharov: Critical points of integrals of soliton equations

Wednesday, January 25

9:00-10:00 L. Mason: Hyper Kahler hierarchies and hidden symmetries
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 H.-J. Hein: Four questions concerning integrable systems and Ricci-flat manifolds
11:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 Ya. Bazaikin: Spin(7)-structures on complex line bundles and explicit Calabi-Yau Riemannian metrics
14:30-15:00 Tea and cake
15:00-16:00 L. Hauswirth: Geometry of embedded minimal annuli in S2 x R via integrable systems

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