Second Russian-German Geometry Meeting dedicated to 90-anniversary of A.D.Alexandrov

PROGRAM

JUNE 16-23, 2002                                                                                          ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA

Tuesday, June 18

 

Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute (Fontanka, 27)

9:30-12:40

Morning session

  9:30-10:20

K. Grove: Curvature in the presense of Symmetries

10:40-11:30

D. Burago: Gaussian measures of surfaces, ellipticity of volume
                    functionals, and volume/distance estimates

11:50-12:40

Ch. Baer: Eigenvalues of the Yamabe Operator

12:40-15:30

Lunch break

Euler International Mathematical Institute (Pesochnaya nab., 10)

15:30-17:00

Sectional Talks

Section I

 

15:30-16:10

W. Ziller: Cohomogeneity one manifolds with nonnegative curvature

16:20-17:00

B. Wilking: Group actions on manifolds of positive sectional curvature

Section II

 

15:30-16:10

A. Gasparyan: Generalized A.D.Alexandrov Inequalities

16:20-17:00

K. Cieliebak: The symplectic vortex equations

17:00-18:30

Subsectional Talks

Section A

 

17:10-17:30

Yu. Nikonorov & E. Rodionov: Homogeneous Einstein manifolds of low dimension

17:40-18:00

L. Schwachhoefer: Cohomogeneity one manifolds and lower curvature bounds

18:10-18:30

E. Rodionov & V. Slavskii: One-dimensional sectional curvature of Riemannian manifolds

Section B

 

17:10-17:30

A. Skopenkov: An infinite sequence of non-realizable weavings

17:40-18:00

I. Babenko: TBA

18:10-18:30

L. Alboul: Curvature optimality criteria in surface reconstruction

Section C

 

17:10-17:30

J. Sullivan: Ropelength of knots and links

17:40-18:00

E. Kudryavtseva: Simple curves on surfaces and an analog of a theorem of Magnus for surface groups

18:10-18:30

Yu. Kordyukov: The Lefschetz trace formula for Lie foliations

Section D

 

17:10-17:30

A. Bobenko: Koebe's theorem and its generalizations

17:40-18:00

J. Itoh: Acute triangulations

18:10-18:30

V. Alexandrov: Alexandrov-type and Minkowski-type theorems for polyhedral herissons