The Interaction of Geometry and Representation Theory.
Exploring new frontiers

Schedule of talks, week two, September 10 - 14, 2012

Monday, September 10:

9:00 - 9:30Welcome and joint registration
9:30 - 10:20 C. LeBrun (SUNY, Stony brook, USA): "Instantons, Quotient Singularities, and the Geometrization of 4-Manifolds"     Abstract, Slides
10:20 - 10:50 coffee break
10:50 - 11:40 R.O. Wells (Jacobs Univ., Germany): Manifolds and Euclidean Space     Abstract
11:50 - 12:40 J. Sawon (Univ. North Carolina, USA): "Twistor theory for generalized complex manifolds"     Abstract, Slides
12:40 - 14:30 lunch break
14:30 - 15:20 S. Gindikin (Rutgers Univ., USA): "Twistors and representations. 25 years after"     Abstract
15:20 - 15:50 break
15:50 - 16:40 L. Mason (Oxford Univ., UK): "Einstein gravity from rational curves in twistor space"     Abstract, Slides
16:50 - 17:40 A. D'Agnolo (Univ. Padova, Italy): "On the Laplace transform for temperate holomorphic functions"     Abstract

Tuesday, September 11:

9:30 - 10:20 T. Kobayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan): "Natural differential operators in parabolic geometry and branching laws"     Abstract
10:20 - 10:50 coffee break
10:50 - 11:40 B. Ørsted (Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark): "Natural differential operators in parabolic geometry and branching laws II"     Abstract
11:50 - 12:40 J.A. Wolf (Univ. California, Berkeley, USA): "Principal series representations for some infinite dimensional Lie groups"     Abstract, Slides
12:30 - 14:30 lunch break
14:30 - 15:20 C.R. Graham (Univ. of Washington, USA): "New proof of Juhl's formulae for GJMS operators and Q-curvatures"     Abstract
15:20 - 15:50 break
15:50 - 16:40 A. Juhl (Univ. Uppsala, Sweden): "On the structure of GJMS-operators and Q-curvatures"     Abstract
16:50 - 17:40 A.R. Gover (Univ. Auckland, New Zealand): "Riemannian geometry in the parabolic playground"     Abstract

Wednesday, September 12:

9:30 - 10:20 R.L. Bryant (MSRI, Berkeley, USA): On normal forms for Pfaffian systems and their application     Abstract
10:20 - 10:50 coffee break
10:50 - 11:40 V. Matveev (Univ. Jena, Germany): "Degree of mobility of metrics with respect to projective and h-projective equivalence"     Abstract, Slides
11:50 - 12:40 D.M.J. Calderbank (Univ. Bath, UK): "Projective parabolic geometries"     Slides
12:40 - 14:30 lunch break
14:30 - 15:20 P. Baird (Univ. Brest, France): "On functions with a conjugate"     Abstract, Slides
15:20 - 15:50 break
15:50 - 16:40 T. Leistner (Univ. Adelaide, Australia): "Conformal holonomy, symmetric spaces, and skew symmetric torsion"     Abstract, Slides
16:50 - 17:40 A. Cap (Univ. Vienna, Austria): "Relative BGG sequences"    Slides

Thursday, September 13:

9:00 - 9:50 K. Hirachi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan): "Invariant theory for the Szegö kernel and CR Q-curvature"    
9:50 - 10:20 coffee break
10:20 - 11:10 A. Isaev (ANU, Canberra, Australia): "Reduction of five-dimensional uniformly Levi degenerate CR structures to absolute parallelisms"     Abstract
11:20 - 12:10 V. Ejov (Univ.South Australia): "Classification of spherical rigid hypersurfaces in C2"     Abstract
12:10 - 14:00 lunch break
14:00 - 14:50 M. Dunajski (Cambride Univ., UK): " SU(2) solutions to self-duality equations in eight dimensions"    
14:50 - 15:20 break
15:20 - 16:10 P. Tod (Oxford Univ., UK): "The behaviour of conformal geodesics"     Abstract
16:20 - 17:10 N. Buchdahl (Univ. Adelaide, Australia): "Spheres and symmetry"     Abstract

Friday, September 14:

9:00 - 9:50 K. Yamaguchi (Hokkaido Univ., Japan): "B3-Geometry in Contact Geometry of Second Order"     Abstract
10:00 - 10:50 J.M. Landsberg (Texas A&M Univ., USA): "Geometry, representation theory, and the complexity of matrix multiplication"     Abstract
10:50 - 11:20 coffee break
11:20 - 12:10 B. Kruglikov (Univ. Tromsø, Norway): "Global Lie-Tresse theorem"     Abstract, Slides
12:20 - 13:10 V. Soucek (Charles Univ., Prague): "On the BGG complexes in a singular infinitesimal character"     Abstract, Slides