Scientific Calendar Event



Description
MAIN TOPICS

    •	HARMONIC FUNCTIONS, GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY
    •	SPECIAL LAGRANGIAN EQUATIONS
    •	ANALYSIS ON MANIFOLDS
    •	EXTREMAL KAEHLER METRICS
    •	RICCI FLOW
    •	MEAN CURVATURE FLOW

Go to day
  • Monday, 2 June 2008
    • 08:30 - 10:30 REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES
      • 08:30 REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES 2h0'
    • 10:30 - 10:45 OPENING
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 10:30 OPENING 15'
        Speaker: Le Dung Trang (Head, ICTP Math Group)
    • 10:45 - 11:45 The Laplace operator in Riemannian geometry
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 10:45 The Laplace operator in Riemannian geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Juergen Jost (Max-Planck-Institute, Leipzig, Germany)
    • 11:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 11:45 Lunch break 2h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Almgren's $Q$ valued functions revisited
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 14:00 Almgren's $Q$ valued functions revisited 1h0'
        Speaker: Camillo De Lellis (University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
        Material: Handout
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 15:00 Break 30'
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Allen-Cahn equation and De Giorgi conjecture
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 15:30 Allen-Cahn equation and De Giorgi conjecture 1h0'
        Speaker: Changfeng Gui (University of Connecticut, Storrs CT, USA)
  • Tuesday, 3 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Almgren's $Q$ valued functions revisited
      • 09:30 Almgren's $Q$ valued functions revisited 1h0'
        Speaker: Camillo De Lellis (University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
    • 10:30 - 10:45 Break
      • 10:30 Break 15'
    • 10:45 - 11:45 The Laplace operator in Riemannian geometry
      • 10:45 The Laplace operator in Riemannian geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Juergen Jost (Max-Planck-Institute, Leipzig, Germany)
    • 11:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 11:45 Lunch break 2h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Allen-Cahn equation and De Giorgi conjecture
      • 14:00 Allen-Cahn equation and De Giorgi conjecture 1h0'
        Speaker: Changfeng Gui (University of Connecticut, Storrs CT, USA)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Break
      • 15:00 Break 30'
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Almgren's $Q$ valued functions revisited
      • 15:30 Almgren's $Q$ valued functions revisited 1h0'
        Speaker: Camillo De Lellis (University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Wednesday, 4 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Allen-Cahn equation and De Giorgi conjecture
      • 09:30 Allen-Cahn equation and De Giorgi conjecture 1h0'
        Speaker: Changfeng Gui (University of Connecticut, Storrs CT, USA)
    • 10:30 - 10:45 Break
      • 10:30 Break 15'
    • 10:45 - 11:45 The Laplace operator in Riemannian geometry
      • 10:45 The Laplace operator in Riemannian geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Juergen Jost (Max-Planck-Institute, Leipzig, Germany)
    • 11:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 11:45 Lunch break 2h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Almgren's $Q$ valued functions revisited
      • 14:00 Almgren's $Q$ valued functions revisited 1h0'
        Speaker: Camillo De Lellis (University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Break
      • 15:00 Break 30'
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Allen-Cahn equation and De Giorgi conjecture
      • 15:30 Allen-Cahn equation and De Giorgi conjecture 1h0'
        Speaker: Changfeng Gui (University of Connecticut, Storrs CT, USA)
  • Thursday, 5 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 The Laplace operator in Riemannian geometry
      • 09:30 The Laplace operator in Riemannian geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Juergen Jost (Max-Planck-Institute, Leipzig, Germany)
    • 10:30 - 10:45 Break
      • 10:30 Break 15'
    • 10:45 - 11:45 Allen-Cahn equation and De Giorgi conjecture
      • 10:45 Allen-Cahn equation and De Giorgi conjecture 1h0'
        Speaker: Changfeng Gui (University of Connecticut, Storrs CT, USA)
    • 11:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 11:45 Lunch break 2h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry
      • 14:00 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank Pacard (Université Paris 12 Val-de-Marne, Créteil, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Break
      • 15:00 Break 30'
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Almgren's $Q$ valued functions revisited
      • 15:30 Almgren's $Q$ valued functions revisited 1h0'
        Speaker: Camillo De Lellis (University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Friday, 6 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 On mean curvature flows
      • 09:30 On mean curvature flows 1h0'
        Speaker: Jingyi Chen (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 10:45 Break
      • 10:30 Break 15'
    • 10:45 - 11:45 On mean curvature flows
      • 10:45 On mean curvature flows 1h0'
        Speaker: Jingyi Chen (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
    • 11:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 11:45 Lunch break 2h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry
      • 14:00 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank Pacard (Université Paris 12 Val-de-Marne, Créteil, France)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Break
      • 15:00 Break 30'
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry
      • 15:30 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank Pacard (Université Paris 12 Val-de-Marne, Créteil, France)
  • Monday, 9 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 On mean curvature flows
      • 09:30 On mean curvature flows 1h0'
        Speaker: Jingyi Chen (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
    • 10:30 - 10:45 Break
      • 10:30 Break 15'
    • 10:45 - 11:45 On mean curvature flows
      • 10:45 On mean curvature flows 1h0'
        Speaker: Jingyi Chen (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
    • 11:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 11:45 Lunch break 2h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry
      • 14:00 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank Pacard (Université Paris 12 Val-de-Marne, Créteil, France)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Break
      • 15:00 Break 30'
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry
      • 15:30 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank Pacard (Université Paris 12 Val-de-Marne, Créteil, France)
  • Tuesday, 10 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 On mean curvature flows
      • 09:30 On mean curvature flows 1h0'
        Speaker: Jingyi Chen (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
    • 10:30 - 10:45 Break
      • 10:30 Break 15'
    • 10:45 - 11:45 On mean curvature flows
      • 10:45 On mean curvature flows 1h0'
        Speaker: Jingyi Chen (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
    • 11:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 11:45 Lunch break 2h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry
      • 14:00 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank Pacard (Université Paris 12 Val-de-Marne, Créteil, France)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Break
      • 15:00 Break 30'
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry
      • 15:30 Analysis in weighted spaces and applications in geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank Pacard (Université Paris 12 Val-de-Marne, Créteil, France)
  • Wednesday, 11 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Special metrics on Kahler manifolds
      • 09:30 Special metrics on Kahler manifolds 1h0'
        Speaker: Claudio Arezzo (Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy)
    • 10:30 - 10:45 Break
      • 10:30 Break 15'
    • 10:45 - 11:45 Special metrics on Kahler manifolds
      • 10:45 Special metrics on Kahler manifolds 1h0'
        Speaker: Claudio Arezzo (Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy)
    • 11:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 11:45 Lunch break 2h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Anti-self-dual metrics and twistor theory
      • 14:00 Anti-self-dual metrics and twistor theory 1h0'
        Speaker: Jeff Viaclovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, USA)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Break
      • 15:00 Break 30'
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Anti-self-dual metrics and twistor theory
      • 15:30 Anti-self-dual metrics and twistor theory 1h0'
        Speaker: Jeff Viaclovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, USA)
  • Thursday, 12 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Special Lagrangian equations
      • 09:30 Special Lagrangian equations 1h0'
        Speaker: Yu Yuan (University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA)
    • 10:30 - 10:45 Break
      • 10:30 Break 15'
    • 10:45 - 11:45 Special Lagrangian equations
      • 10:45 Special Lagrangian equations 1h0'
        Speaker: Yu Yuan (University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA)
    • 11:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 11:45 Lunch break 2h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Anti-self-dual metrics and twistor theory
      • 14:00 Anti-self-dual metrics and twistor theory 1h0'
        Speaker: Jeff Viaclovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, USA)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Break
      • 15:00 Break 30'
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Anti-self-dual metrics and twistor theory
      • 15:30 Anti-self-dual metrics and twistor theory 1h0'
        Speaker: Jeff Viaclovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, USA)
    • 18:30 - 21:30 "RECEPTION" AT ADRIATICO GUEST HOUSE CAFETERIA
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 18:30 "RECEPTION" AT ADRIATICO GUEST HOUSE CAFETERIA 3h0'
  • Friday, 13 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Special Lagrangian equations
      • 09:30 Special Lagrangian equations 1h0'
        Speaker: Yu Yuan (University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA)
    • 10:30 - 10:45 Break
      • 10:30 Break 15'
    • 10:45 - 11:45 Special Lagrangian equations
      • 10:45 Special Lagrangian equations 1h0'
        Speaker: Yu Yuan (University of Washington, Seattle WA, USA)
    • 11:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 11:45 Lunch break 2h15'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Special metrics on Kahler manifolds
      • 14:00 Special metrics on Kahler manifolds 1h0'
        Speaker: Claudio Arezzo (Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Break
      • 15:00 Break 30'
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Special metrics on Kahler manifolds
      • 15:30 Special metrics on Kahler manifolds 1h0'
        Speaker: Claudio Arezzo (Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy)
  • Monday, 16 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Geometry of 4-dimensional special metrics
      • 09:30 Geometry of 4-dimensional special metrics 1h0'
        Speaker: Gang Tian (Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Break
      • 10:30 Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:00 The Calabi-Yau equation on sympletic manifolds
      • 11:00 The Calabi-Yau equation on sympletic manifolds 1h0'
        Speaker: Valentino Tosatti (Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA)
        Material: abstract
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 12:00 Lunch break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 The Hodge conjecture for certain abelian four-folds: a Gauge-theoric approach
      • 14:00 The Hodge conjecture for certain abelian four-folds: a Gauge-theoric approach 1h0'
        Speaker: Ramadas Ramakrishnan Trivandrum (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
    • 15:00 - 15:15 Break
      • 15:00 Break 15'
    • 15:15 - 16:15 Cross curvature flow on locally homogeneous three-manifolds
      • 15:15 Cross curvature flow on locally homogeneous three-manifolds 1h0'
        Speaker: Xiaodong Cao (Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA)
    • 16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
      • 16:15 Coffee break 15'
    • 16:30 - 17:30 On the global well-posedness of the one-dimensional Schrodinger map flow
      • 16:30 On the global well-posedness of the one-dimensional Schrodinger map flow 1h0'
        Speaker: Yanir Rubinstein (Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA)
  • Tuesday, 17 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Variational theory for the $Q$-curvature equation
      • 09:30 Variational theory for the $Q$-curvature equation 1h0'
        Speaker: Andrea Malchiodi (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
        Material: abstract
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:00 Ramadanov conjecture and line bundles over compact symmetric spaces
      • 11:00 Ramadanov conjecture and line bundles over compact symmetric spaces 1h0'
        Speaker: Miroslav Englis (Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic)
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 12:00 Lunch break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 A microscopic convexity principle for geometric nonlinear equations
      • 14:00 A microscopic convexity principle for geometric nonlinear equations 1h0'
        Speaker: Pengfei Guan (McGill University, Quebec, Canada)
    • 15:00 - 15:15 Break
      • 15:00 Break 15'
    • 15:15 - 16:15 Isometric immersions of Kaehler-Einstein manifolds into complex space forms
      • 15:15 Isometric immersions of Kaehler-Einstein manifolds into complex space forms 1h0'
        Speaker: Andrea Loi (Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy)
    • 16:15 - 16:30 Break
      • 16:15 Break 15'
    • 16:30 - 17:30 On the existence of Ricci-Flat Kaehler metrics
      • 16:30 On the existence of Ricci-Flat Kaehler metrics 1h0'
        Speaker: Bianca Santoro (Duke University, Durham NC, USA)
  • Wednesday, 18 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Broken geodesics and injectivity radius
      • 09:30 Broken geodesics and injectivity radius 1h0'
        Speaker: Xiaochun Rong (Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, USA)
        Material: abstract
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:00 Analysis in complex geometry
      • 11:00 Analysis in complex geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 12:00 Lunch break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 FREE AFTERNOON
      • 14:00 FREE AFTERNOON 3h0'
  • Thursday, 19 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 K-stability of constant scalar curvature polarised manifolds
      • 09:30 K-stability of constant scalar curvature polarised manifolds 1h0'
        Speaker: Jacopo Stoppa (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:00 On 2-scalar curvature
      • 11:00 On 2-scalar curvature 1h0'
        Speaker: Guofang Wang (Magdeburg University, Magdeburg, Germany)
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 12:00 Lunch break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Analytic Blaschke-Santalo inequalities
      • 14:00 Analytic Blaschke-Santalo inequalities 1h0'
        Speaker: Meijun Zhu (University of Oklahoma, Norman OK, USA)
    • 15:00 - 15:15 Break
      • 15:00 Break 15'
    • 15:15 - 16:15 Twisted Kaehler-Einstein metrics and Kaehler-Ricci flow
      • 15:15 Twisted Kaehler-Einstein metrics and Kaehler-Ricci flow 1h0'
        Speaker: Gabriele La Nave (Yeshiva University, New York NJ, USA)
    • 16:15 - 16:30 Break
      • 16:15 Break 15'
    • 16:30 - 17:30 Stability of geometric evolution equations
      • 16:30 Stability of geometric evolution equations 1h0'
        Speaker: Haozhao Li (Peking University, Beijing, China)
  • Friday, 20 June 2008
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Symplectic Calabi-Yau manifolds and minimal surfaces
      • 09:30 Symplectic Calabi-Yau manifolds and minimal surfaces 1h0'
        Speaker: Joel Fine (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:00 Green's functions in conformal geometry
      • 11:00 Green's functions in conformal geometry 1h0'
        Speaker: Jie Xiao (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
      • 12:00 Lunch break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Calibrated geometries
      • 14:00 Calibrated geometries 1h0'
        Speaker: Sema Salur (University of Rochester, Rochester NY, USA)
        Material: abstract
    • 15:00 - 15:15 Break
      • 15:00 Break 15'
    • 15:15 - 16:15 Extremal Kaehler metrics and stability on a class of ruled manifolds (joint work with V. Apostolov, D. Calderbank and C.Toennessen)
      • 15:15 Extremal Kaehler metrics and stability on a class of ruled manifolds (joint work with V. Apostolov, D. Calderbank and C.Toennessen) 1h0'
        Speaker: Paul Gauduchon (Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz, Palaiseau, France)
        Material: abstract