Lectures in the Program
"Geometric and analytic problems related to Cartan connections"

This is a complete list of all lectures which were deliviered during the program.

Past Lectures

Thursday, Jan. 8, 11:00 Tohru Morimoto (Nara Women's University): "A general criterion for the existence of a Cartan connection and its application to sub-Riemannian structures"
Tuesday, Jan. 13, 11:00 Michael Cowling (University of New South Wales): "The Cayley transform and uniformly bounded representations" Abstract
Wednesday, Jan. 14, 15:00 Pawel Nurowski (Warsaw University): "G2 Cartan connection associated with equation z'=F(x,y,y',y'',z)" Abstract
Friday, Jan. 16, 11:00 Bent Ørsted (University of Southern Denmark):"A logarithmic Sobolev inequality in CR geometry" Abstract
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 15:00 Michael Eastwood (University of Adelaide): "Higher symmetries of the Laplacian" Abstract
Friday, Jan. 30, 11:00 Daniel Fox (Georgia Institute of Technology): "Contact Projective Structures" Abstract
Thursday, Feb. 5, 11:00 Boris Doubrov (Int. Sophus Lie Centre): "On locally homogeneous curves in homogeneous spaces" Abstract
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 11:00 Pierre Julg (Universite d'Orleans): "From C*-algebras to complexes on flag manifolds"
Thursday, Feb. 12, 11:00 Gerd Schmalz (Universität Bonn): "Non-linearizable CR automorphisms and shear-invariant second order ODE" Abstract
Friday, Feb. 13, 11:00 Keizo Yamaguchi (Hokkaido University): "Characterization of Hermitian symmetric spaces by fundamental forms" Abstract
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 11:00 Boris Doubrov (Int. Sophus Lie Centre): "Cartan geometries associated with differential equations"
Thursday, Feb. 26, 15:00 Olivier Biquard (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg): "Quaternionic Kähler metrics and their boundaries" Abstract
Monday, March 1, 11:00 Maria Barberis (Univ. Nac. de Cordoba): "Geometric structures on Lie groups" Abstract
Tuesday, March 2, 11:00 Annamaria Fino (Universita di Torino): "KT and HKT geometry" Abstract
Tuesday, March 2, 15:00 Matt Gursky (University of Notre Dame): "A fully nonlinear equation in conformal geometry and some applications"
Wednesday, March 3, 15:00 Alice Chang (Princeton University): "Q-curvature and renormalized volume"
Thursday, March 4, 11:00 Paul Yang (Princeton University): "On a notion of minimal surface in CR geometry"
Thursday, March 4, 15:00 Gregor Weingart (Universität Bonn): "Classification of Cartan geometries and spectral sequences" Abstract
Wednesday, Mar. 10, 15:00 Toby Bailey (University of Edinburgh): "Radon transforms and Fourier transforms"
Thursday, Mar. 11, 15:00 David Duchemin (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg): "Quaternionic contact structures in dimension 7" Abstract
Wednesday, Mar. 17, 14:30 Kengo Hirachi (University of Tokyo): "Volume renormalization of strictly pseudoconvex domains" Abstract
Thursday, Mar. 18, 11:00 William Ugalde (Purdue University): "A construction of critical GJMS operators using Wodzicki's residue" Abstract
Friday, Mar. 19, 15:00 Doojin Hong (University of Iowa): "Spectra of Higher Spin Operators on Spin 1/2 and Spin 3/2 fields" Abstract
Wednesday, Mar. 24, 14:30, small seminar room Lorenz Schwachhöfer (Universität Dortmund): "Special symplectic connections" Abstract
Thursday, Mar. 25, 15:00, small seminar room Dmitri Zaitsev (Trinity College, Dublin): "Lie group structures on groups of CR automorphisms" Abstract
Tuesday, Mar. 30, 15:00 Oussama Hijazi (Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy ): "Extrinsic Spin Geometry and Applications" Abstract
Wednesday, Mar. 31, 14:30 Thomas Branson (University of Iowa): "Detour complexes, half-torsion, and generalizations of the Q-curvature" Abstract
Thursday, April 1, 15:00 Robin Graham (University of Washington): "Jet isomorphisms in conformal geometry"
Friday, April 2, 11:00 Robert J. Stanton (Ohio State University): "Complex methods for real symmetric spaces"
Monday, April 4, 11:00 Paul-Andi Nagy (Humboldt-Universität Berlin): "Nearly Kähler manifolds with symmetries" Abstract
Tuesday, April 6, 11:00 Krzysztof Galicki (MPI - University of New Mexico): "Transverse Fano Structures and Einstein Metrics on Exotic Spheres" Abstract
Tuesday, April 6, 15:00 Felipe Leitner (Universität Leipzig): "Twistor spinors with zeros in Lorentzian geometry" Abstract
Wednesday, April 7, 15:00 Vladimir Soucek (Charles University, Prague): "Analogues of the Dolbeault complex in several Clifford variables" Abstract
Wednesday, April 21, 14:30, room C 2.09 Jacek Tafel (University of Warsaw): "Conformal compactification and gravitational radiation" Abstract