The main topics of the semester include:

1.  Geometric function and mapping theory in Euclidean spaces, Riemannian manifolds, Heisenberg and Carnot-Carathéodory groups and in more general metric measure spaces.

2.  Function spaces on metric measure spaces.

Senior leaders:

Piotr Hajlasz (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Stanislav Hencl (Charles University, Prague, Czechia)

Giona Veronelli (University of Bicocca, Milano, Italy).

Junior leaders:

Daniel Campbell (Charles Univerity, Prague, Czechia)

Sylvester Eriksson-Bique (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

Aleksis Koski (Aalto University, Finland)

Damaris Meier (ETH, Switzerland)

David Tewodrose (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Scott Zimmerman (Ohio State University, OH, USA)

   The key events of the semester:

 8-12.VI.2026, IM PAN Warsaw: Workshop in geometric analysis organized as a series of lectures. 

The lectures will be aimed largely at young researchers. Moreover, the session of contributed talks will be held. 

Preliminary list of speakers: 

    Daniel Campbell (Charles Univerity, Prague, Czechia)

    Sylvester Eriksson-Bique (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

    Piotr Hajłasz (University of Pittsburgh, USA), series of lectures

    Stanislav Hencl (Charles University, Prague, Czechia), series of lectures

    Aleksis Koski (Aalto University, Finland)

    Damaris Meier (ETH, Switzerland)

    David Tewodrose (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

    Daniele Valtorta (University of Bicocca, Milano, Italy), series of lectures

    Giona Veronelli (University of Bicocca, Milano, Italy), series of lectures

    Scott Zimmerman (Ohio State University, OH, USA).

21-27.VI.2026, Będlewo Conference Center: 

A conference in geometric analysis to honor Piotr Hajłasz’ 60th birthday 

See the conference webpage for more details:

www.hajlasz60.com 

List of plenary speakers:

Luigi Ambrosio, Giovanni Alberti, Zoltan Balogh, Jana Bjorn, Stanislav Hencl, Paweł Goldstein, Zofia Grochulska, Agnieszka Kałamajska, Pekka Koskela, Enrico Le Donne, Juan Manfredi, Jani Onninen, Pekka Pankka, Armin Schikorra, Nageswari Shanmugalingam, Paweł Strzelecki, Xiaodan Zhou.

Simons Seminar in Geometric Analysis, IMPAN Warsaw:  

Apart from the workshop and the conference, the semester plans to invite several guests who could cooperate scientifically with the semester participants, as well as deliver a talk at the Simons semester seminar.  

The tentative list of the semester guests (the exact dates of their visits during the semester will be announced later):

• Riku Anttila,

• Fabrice Baudoin,

• Miguel Garcia Bravo,

• Baptiste Devyver,

• Manuel Diaz,

• Manisha Garg,

• Chris Gartland,

• Fedya Manin,

• Andrea Pinamonti,

• Kai Rajala,

• Leah Schaetzler,

• Sebastian Schwarzacher,

• Nageswari Shanmugalingam,

• Elefterios Soultanis,

• Janne Taipalus,

• Daniele Valtorta,

• Noa Vikman,

• Robert Young,

• Zheng Zhu. 

Seminar schedule (tentative): 

                         Mondays, 10-14, room 403

                         Tuesdays and Thursdays 14-17, room 321

 1-5.VI:

•  Fabrice Baudoin

 15-19.VI:

•  Miguel Garcia Bravo

•  Piotr Hajłasz

•  Chris Gartland

•  Fedya Manin

•  Kaj Rajala

          29.VI-3.VII:

• Nageswari Shanmugalingam

• Janne Taipalus

• Noa Vikman

Information for the semester participants.

 If any scientific publications result from participation in the Simons Semester or from collaborations initiated during the semester, the Acknowledgments section should include the text below (the wording has been approved by the Ministry – please do not introduce any changes other than inserting the correct name of the work or event). Thank you!

“This [work/event] was partially supported by the Simons Foundation grant (award no. SFI-MPS-T-Institutes-00010825) and from State Treasury funds as part of a task commissioned by the Minister of Science and Higher Education under the project “Organization of the Simons Semesters at the Banach Center - New Energies in 2026-2028” (agreement no. MNiSW/2025/DAP/491).”