Workshop on
Conformal geometry and Spectral Theory

Program

Titles and abstracts of all talks.

Schedule

Friday, 11 November

9:00 - 9:45Registration
10:00 - 11:00Robin GrahamHigher-dimensional Willmore energies via minimal submanifold asymptotics
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30Bernd AmmannThe Yamabe invariant
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00Andreas ČapFrom holonomy reductions of Cartan geometries to geometric compactifications
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30Martin OlbrichInvariant currents on limit sets of groups acting on complex hyperbolic spaces
16:45 - 17:45Jan SlovákCalculus on symplectic and conformal Fedosov manifolds

Saturday, 12 November

9:00 - 10:00Bent ØrstedRiesz distributions for differential forms
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:30Matthias FischmannBernstein-Sato identities for generalized Riesz distributions
11:45 - 12:45Michael Pevnzer Symmetry breaking operators for reductive pairs
Lunch break
14:15 - 15:15Charles FrancesDynamics and topology for 3-dimensional Lorentz manifolds
Coffee break

Sunday, 13 November

9:30 - 10:30Matthias HammerlThe Fefferman-Graham ambient spaces of conformal Patterson-Walker metrics
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00Paweł NurowskiConformal structures with linear Fefferman-Graham equations
This conference is supported by SFB647 "Space Time Matter".