Global Riemannian Geometry
 
Cuernavaca, May 11 - 17, 2008
Instituto de Matemáticas (Unidad Cuernavaca)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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  Sunday, May 11th 2008
15:00 - 16:00 Registration
16:00 - 18:00 Fernando Galaz García: “Minicourse Reintroduction to Riemannian Geometry (Part I)”
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  Monday, May 12th 2008
09:00 - 10:00 Karsten Grove: “Minicourse Alexandrov Geometry (Part I)”
10:20 - 11:20 Viktor Schroeder: “The Ptolemy Inequality and Boundaries of Hyperbolic Space”
12:00 - 13:00 Paolo Piccione: “Isometric and Affine Immersions that preserve G-Structures”
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15:00 - 16:00 Igor Belegradek: “Aspects of Negatively Curved Manifolds”
16:40 - 17:40 Fernando Galaz García: “Reintroduction to Riemannian Geometry (Part II)”
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  Tuesday, May 13th 2008
09:00 - 10:00 Karsten Grove: “Minicourse Alexandrov Geometry (Part II)”
10:20 - 11:20 Wolfgang Ziller: “ On the Geometry of a Family of Candidates for Positive Curvature ”
12:00 - 13:00 Owen Dearicott: “Positive Sectional Curvature on 3-Sasakian 7-Manifolds”
15:00 - 16:00 Luigi Verdiani: “Connection Metrics with Positive Sectional Curvature”
16:40 - 17:40 Gerard Walschap: “Minicourse Riemannian Submersions (Part I)”
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  Wednesday, May 14th 2008
09:00 - 10:00 Luis Florit: “Genuine Rigidity of Submanifolds: The Conformal Realm”
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10:20 - 11:20 Carlos Olmos: “A Holonomy Theorem for 3-Forms and the Full Isometry Group of Naturally Reductive Metrics”
11:40 - 12:40 César Rosales: “On Some Variational Problems in the Sub-Riemannian Heisenberg Group H1
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13:00 - 14:00 Jimmy Petean: “On Isoperimetric Estimates and Yamabe Constants”
14:15 Taquiza
15:15 Excursion to Tepoztlan
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  Thursday, May 15th 2008
09:00 - 10:00 Karsten Grove: “Minicourse Alexandrov Geometry (Part III)”
10:20 - 11:20 Wei Guofang: “Rigidity of Quasi-Einstein Metrics”
12:00 - 13:00 Christina Sormani: “Open Questions on Open Manifolds with Ricci>=0
15:00 - 16:00 Christine Escher: “The Topology of Non-Negatively Curved Manifolds”
16:40 - 17:40 Gerard Walschap: “Minicourse Riemannian Submersions (Part II)”
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  Friday, May 16th 2008
09:00 - 10:00 Karsten Grove: “Minicourse Alexandrov Geometry (Part IV)”
10:20 - 11:20 Antonio Naveira: “Campos de Jacobi y rango osculador del operador de Jacobi en algunas clases especiales de espacios homogéneos Riemannianos”
12:00 - 13:00 Megan Kerr: “The Geometry of Compact Homogeneous Spaces with two Isotropy Summands”
15:00 - 16:00 Kristopher Tapp: “Homogeneous and Cohomogeneity-One Manifolds with Nonnegative Sectional Curvature”
16:40 - 17:40 Gerard Walschap: “Minicourse Riemannian Submersions (Part III)”
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  Saturday, May 17th 2008
09:00 - 10:00 María Calle: “Non-Proper Helicoid-Like Limits of Minimal Surfaces”
10:20 - 11:20 Rafael Herrera: “Almost Quaternionic Manifolds and Circle Actions”
11:40 - 12:40 Uwe Semmelmann: “Deformations of Nearly Kähler Manifolds”
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