Cartan Connections, Geometry of Homogeneous Spaces, and Dynamics

Schedule of talks, week two, July 18 - 22, 2011

Monday, July 18:

9:00 - 9:30Welcome and registration
9:30 - 10:30      A. Čap (Univ. Vienna, Austria): "Introduction to Cartan geometries"
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 K. Neusser (ANU, Australia): "On automorphism groups of certain types of vector distributions"
12:00 - 14:00 lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 J. Slovák (Masaryk Univ., Czech Republic): "Distinguished curves in Cartan geometries"
15:00 - 15:30 coffee break
15:30 - 16:30 C. Frances (Univ. Orsay, France): "The Ferrand-Obata theorem for rank-one parabolic geometries"
16:30 - 16:45 break
16:45 - 17:45 V. Matveev (Univ. Jena, Germany): "Symmetries of projective or h-projective structure of a metric"

Tuesday, July 19:

9:30 - 10:30     K. Melnick (Univ. Maryland, USA): "Gromov-Zimmer theory of rigid geometric structures"
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 S. Dumitrescu (Univ. Nice, France): "Locally homogeneous rigid geometric structures"
12:00 - 14:00 lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 D. Constantine (Univ. Chicago, USA): "Compact Clifford-Klein forms and group actions"
15:00 - 15:30 coffee break
15:30 - 16:30 A. Zeghib (ENS Lyon, France): "Kähler manifolds with big automorphism group"
16:30 - 16:45 break
16:45 - 17:45 R. Feres (Univ. Washington, USA): "Random dynamics and spectrum of classical mechanical systems with partial information"

Wednesday, July 20:

9:30 - 10:30     I. Kath (Univ. Greifswald, Germany): "G2(2)-structures on indefinite symmetric spaces"
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 R. Gover (Univ. Auckland, New Zealand): "Conformal tractors and infinitesimal automorphisms: An introduction"
12:00 - 14:00 lunch break
14:00 - 14:30 C. Rossi (Univ. Avignon, France): "Globally hyperbolic conformally flat maximal spacetimes"
14:30 - 15:00 D. Ruiz (Univ. Maryland, USA): "Affine deformations of hyperbolic structures and the Margulis invariant"
15:00 - 15:30 coffee break
15:30 - 16:00 K. Mann (Univ. Chicago, USA): "Global fixed points for groups acting on the plane"
16:00 - 16:30 J.-P. Michel (Univ. Luxembourg): "Higher symmetries of Laplacian and quantization"
16:30 - 16:45 break
16:45 - 17:45 G. Manno (Univ. Milano, Italy): "Projectively homogeneous metrics on 2-dimensional manifolds"

Thursday, July 21:

9:30 - 10:30     D. Alekseevski (Univ. Hull, UK): "Classification of homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds of a semisimple Lie group"
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Y. Kamishima (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan): "Lorentzian similarity manifolds"
after 12:00 lunch and free afternoon

On Thursday evening we plan to organize a gathering at a "Heurigen."

Friday, July 22:

9:30 - 10:30     L. Marquis (Univ. Rennes, France): "Finite volume quotients of Hilbert geometries"
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 F. Kassel (Univ. Chicago, USA/CNRS, France): "Geometry and spectra of complete AdS3-manifolds"