Special Research Semester at the
International Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics (ESI) Vienna, Austria

Geometry of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with application in Physics

 
Organizers:  
Prof. Dmitri Alekseevski (University of Hull, UK)
          Prof. Helga Baum (HU Berlin, Germany)
                   Prof. Jerzy Konderak (University of Bari, Italy)
  
   September – December 2005

Lectures

Mon  12.09.05
  9.30 - 11.00 J.F. O'Farrill (Edinburgh):  Homogeneous structures and plane wave limits
Mon  12.09.05
16.00 - 17.30 W. Kühnel (Stuttgart):  Conformal Geometry of gravitational plane wave
Tue   13.09.05
  9.30 - 11.00 H.-B. Rademacher (Leipzig): Twistor spinors with zeros
Tue   13.09.05
14.00 -...
F. Witt (FU Berlin):  Generalized Geometries & superstring theory of type IIB
(Talk at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Uni Vienna, Wieder Hauptstrasse 8-10. room 138C)
Tue   13.09.05
16.00 - 17.30 V. Matveev (Freiburg):  Geodesically equivalent metrics
Wed  14.09.05
  9.30 - 11.00 M. Dunajski (Cambridge):  Antiselfdual conformal structures in split signature with null symmetry
Wed  14.09.05
16.00 - 17.30 F. Witt (FU Berlin):  Special metric structures of split signature
Thu   15.09.05
  9.30 - 11.00 B. Guiloyle (Trallee):  The indefinite metric on the space of oriented lines
Thu   15.09.05
16.00 - 17.30 W. Klingenberg (Durham):  The geometry of caustics
Fri    16.09.05
  9.30 - 11.00 S. Dagomir (Potenza):  Fefferman metrics: Recent applications
Fri    16.09.05
11.30 - 13.00
H. Baum (HU Berlin):  Holonomy of conformal structures 

Wed 21.09.05
16.00 - 17.00
J. Davidov & O.Mushkarov  (Sofia):  Hyperbolic Twistor Spaces

Tue    27.09.05
  9.30 - 11.00
K. Wolak (Kracow) :  Foliations. Holonomy and its invariants
Tue    27.09.05
16.00 - 17.30
H. Kamada (Sendai):  Existence and non-existence of selbstdual (indefinite) Kähler metrics
Wed  28.09.05
  9.30 - 11.00
St. Armstrong (Oxford):  Projective and conformal holonomy
Wed  28.09.05
16.00 - 17.30
F. Finster (Regensburg):  A weighted L2-estimate of the Witten spinor in asymptotically Schwarzschild manifolds
Thu    29.09.05
  9.30 - 11.00
I. Ikemakhen (Marakesh):  Parallel spinors on pseudo-Riemannian spinC -manifolds
Thu    29.09.05
16.00 - ...
F. Finster (Regensburg):  A variational principal in discrete space times  (Informal discussion)

Tue   04.10.05
10.30 - 12.00
Th. Leistner (Adelaide):  Lorentzian holonomy groups
Tue   04.10.05
16.00 - 17.30
O. Mac Conamhna (Cambridge):  G-structures and the classification of supersymmetric space-times in supergravity
Wed 05.10.05
10.30 - 12.00
W. Goldmann (Maryland):  Flat Lorentzian 3-manifolds and hyperbolic geometry on surfaces

Mon  10.10.05
10.30 - 12.00
E. Garcia-Rio (Santiago de Compostella):  Geometric consequences of algebraic properties of the Jacobi operator
Tue   11.10.05
10.30 - 12.00
A. Swann (Odense):  Hypersymplectic manifolds with torus action
Wed 12.10.05
10.30 - 12.00
A. Di Scala (Torino):  Kähler maps from bounded domains in l2(C) and other things (collab. with Andree Loi)
Thu   13.10.05
 10.30 - 12.00
I. Kath (MPI Leipzig): On the structure of indefinite  symmetric spaces

Thu 20.10.05
10.30 - 12.00
G. Vilasi ( ): Einstein metrics with 2-dim. Killing leaves and their physical interpretation
Fri   21.10.05
10.30 - 12.00
G. Papadopoulos (London):  Spinorial  Geometry and Supersymmetry I
Fri   21.10.05
15.00 - 16.00
I. Strachan (Glasgow): Deformation of selfduality

Mon  24.10.05
10.30 - 12.00
G. Papadopoulos (London):  Spinorial  Geometry and Supersymmetry II
Tue   25..10.05
10.30 - 12.00
F. Leitner (Stuttgart):  Complex structures in conformal tractor culculus and generalized Fefferman spaces

Tue    01.11.05
10.30 - 12.00
C. Galicki (New Mexico): Seifert bundles and contact structures 
Wed   02.11.05  
10.30 - 12.00
Y. Kamishima (Tokyo): Bochner-flat pseudo-Kähler structures on Cp,q and quaternionic analog
Fri     04.11.05
10.30 - 12.00
A. Galaev (Berlin): Classification of holonomy groups of pseudo-Kählerian manifolds of index 2

Mon  07.11.05
10.30 - 11.30
M. Nardmann (Regensburg): Pseudo-Riemannian metrics with prescribed scalar curvature
Mon  07.11.05
17.00
L. Berard-Bergery (Nancy): Non-irreducible pseudo-Riemannian holonomy  (Informal discussion)
Tue    08.11.05
17.00
I. Kath (MPI Leipzig):   Lorentzian symmetric submanifolds (Informal discussion)
Wed  09.11.05
10.30 - 12.00
G. Schmalz (Armindale): Cartan connections for Engel CR-manifolds


10.11.05 - 12.11.05
Workshop "Hyperbolic operators on Lorentzian manifolds and quantization"

Wed  16.11.05
10.30 - 12.00
Ch. Frances (Paris): Dynamics of causal conformal vector fields        

Tue    06.12.05
10.30 - 12.00
J. Grant (Wien): Geometric structures on solution spaces of integrable systems
Wed  07.12.05
10.30
A.M. Candela (Bari):  Variational Tools applied to General Relativity

Mon   12.12.05
10.30 - 12.00
J. L. Flores (Malaga): Causal baundary for Mp-wave spacetimes
Tue    13.12.05
10.30
M. Sanchez (Granada): Causal hierarchy of space times

Mon   19.12.05
10.30
F. Belgun (Leipzig): Weyl structures on para-CR manifolds





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