Russian-German Geometry Meeting

dedicated to the 85th birthday of A.D. ALEXANDROV

 

Programme

 

 

September 22, Monday

 

9:00

10:00

Registration

10:00

10:45

Opening

11:00

11:45

Alexey Pogorelov

On the foundation of geometry

12:00

12:45

Hermann Karcher

Construction of embedded minimal surfaces

16:00

18:25

Sections

 

Section I

 

16:00

16:25

Christian Baer

Eigenvalues of the Dirac operator, collapse, and Willmore functional

16:40

17:05

Richard Bishop
(joint with S. Alexander)

Warped Products of Metric Spaces

17:20

17:45

Urs Lang

Extendability of large-scale lipschitz maps

18:00

18:25

Dorothee Schueth

Continuous families of isospectral metrics on simply connected manifolds

 

Section II

 

16:00

16:25

Yuri Borisov

Relaxing the a priori constraints on the fundamental theorem of space curves

16:40

17:05

Ernst Kuwert

Minimization of conformally invariant energies in homotopy classes

17:20

17:45

Judith Leder

Codazzi tensors of order three in Differential Geometry

18:00

18:25

Konrad Polthier

Discrete Geodesics and Numerics on Surfaces

 

Section III

 

16:00

16:25

Herbert Abels

Reductive Groups as metric spaces

16:40

17:05

Anton Deitmar

Hopf and Lefschetz formulas for flows

17:20

17:45

Alexander Guts

A time-mashine and recovering of the past

 

 

 

September 23, Tuesday

 

9:30

10:15

Uwe Abresch

Homogeneous spaces of strictly positive curvature

10:30

11:15

Valery Berestovsky

On and about Alexandrov's Spaces

11:30

12:15

Bernhard Leeb

 

Rigidity of symmetric spaces and buildings

16:00

18:25

Sections

 

Section I

 

16:00

16:25

Conrad Plaut

Geometries and covers of groups

16:40

17:05

Alexander Bobenko

Discrete Affine Spheres

17:20

17:45

Vadim Kaimanovich

Generalized Busemann functions and compactifications of symmetric spaces

18:00

18:25

Takashi Sakai

On Riemannian manifolds admitting a function whose gradient is of constant norm

 

Section II

 

16:00

16:25

Brian Bowditch

A topological characterization of hyperbolic groups

16:40

17:05

Jinichi Itoh

Riemannian metric with fractal cut locus

17:20

17:45

Alexander Borisenko

Total curvatures of convex hypersurfaces in the Hyperbolic space

18:00

18:25

Vladimir Vershinin

Configuration Spaces and Generalizations of Braids

 

Section III

 

16:00

16:25

Victor Alexandrov

Sufficient Conditions for Extension of N-th Order Flex of Polyhedra

16:40

17:05

Victor Gichev

Invariant orderings in simply connected Lie groups

17:20

17:45

Michael Babich
(joint with L.Bordag)

Cartanian Spaces of the Normal Projective Connections correspondent to the Painleve Equations and the Theory of Invariants

18:00

18:25

Vladimir Matveev

Symplectic nature of the Dini theorem

 

 

September 24, Wednesday

 

 

9:30

10:15

Idzhat Sabitov

A generalized Heron's formula and an algorithmic solution of basic problems of
the metric theory of polyhedrons

 

10:30

11:15

Juergen Jost

Generalized harmonic maps into Alexandrov spaces

 

11:30

12:15

Olga Ladyzhenskaya

On evolution of multidimensional surfaces with the curvatures dependent speed

 

14:00

18:00

Excursion over the sity (4 hours).

 

 

September 25, Thursday

 

9:30

10:15

Victor Bangert

Stable Norm and Minimal Laminations

 

10:30

11:15

Bruce Kleiner

Geometric boundary of Hadamard spaces

 

11:30

12:15

Wolfgang Meyer

The Sphere Theorem in Riemannian Geometry

16:00

18:25

Sections

 

Section I

 

16:00

16:25

Francois Ledrappier

Stable foliations on abelian covers

 

16:40

17:05

Takashi Shioya (joint with T. Yamaguchi)

Collapsing three-manifolds under a lower curvature bound

17:20

17:45

Andrei Bodrenko

ARG-deformations of surfaces in Riemannian space

18:00

18:25

Arkady Skopenkov

On the Deleted Product Criterion For Concordance of Link Maps in Rm

 

Section II

 

16:00

16:25

Alexey Bolsinov

Topology of Integrable Hamiltonian Systems

16:40

17:05

Christine Scharlach

Centroaffine geometry of surfaces in R4

 

17:20

17:45

Serguei Vodop'yanov

Metric structures and quasiconformal mappings

18:00

18:25

Alexandr Ivanov (joint with A.Tuzhilin)

Geometry of planar linear trees and applications to minimal networks theory

 

Section III

 

16:00

16:25

Patrick Eberlein

Totally geodesic submanifolds of compact, 2-step nilmanifolds

16:40

17:05

Katrin Leschke

On isoparametric submanifolds of Euclidean spaces

17:20

17:45

Yaroslav Bazaikin

On odd-dimensional positively curved spaces

18:00

18:25

Victor Toponogov

The convex surface with principal curvatures connected by some equation

stend talk

Konstantin Salikhov

CE-resolving 2-polyhedra up to special ones

 

September 26, Friday

 

9:30

10:15

Ernst Heintze

Isoparametric Submanifold in Hilbert space

 

 

10:30

11:15

Stefan Mueller

Geometry and microstructure - flexibility and rigidity

 

11:30

12:15

Wilderich Tuschmann (joint with A. Petrunin and X. Rong)

Collapsing and positive pinching

 

 

 

September 27, Saturday

 

 

9:30

10:15

Stephanie Alexander
(joint with R. Bishop)

Topology of Riemannian manifolds with cut locus of low degree

 

10:30

11:15

Ulrich Pinkall

Differential geometry of surfaces and quaternionic algebraic geometry