Blair - Riemannian Geometry of Contact and Symplectic Manifolds
Boyer, Galicki - Sasakian Geometry
Sasaki geometry [Notes of the reading course] Edited by Giovanni Gentili. Please contact him to report typos and mistakes.
Feb 9, h. 15:00 - Speaker: Elia Fusi.
Symplectic manifolds: Darboux theorem, examples. Contact manifolds: relations with symplectic structures, examples. [Blair, 1, 3.1, 3.2; Boyer, Galicki, 6.1]
Feb 16, h. 15:00 - Speaker: Federico Giusti
Example: Boothby-Wang fibration. Cones: relation with symplectic, (almost) contact (metric) and Sasaki structures. [Blair, 3.3; Boyer, Galicki, 6.2-5]
Feb 23, h. 15:00 - Speaker: Asia Mainenti
Almost-contact (metric) structures. Metrics associated to symplectic and contact structures. [Blair, 4.1, 4.2; Boyer, Galicki, 6.2, 6.4]
Mar 1, h. 15:00 - Speaker: Lapo Rubini
Geometry of the space of associated metrics. [Blair, 4.3, 4.4]
Mar 7, h. 9:30 - Speaker: Giovanni Russo
Sasakian geometry: defintion and first properties. [Blair, 6.1-6.3; Boyer, Galicki, 6.5]
Mar 14, h. 9:30 - Speaker: Tommaso Sferruzza
CR-manifolds. [Blair, 6.4]
Mar 21, h. 9:30 - Speaker: Beatrice Brienza
Cosymplectic manifolds. Mapping tori of Kähler manifolds. [Blair, 6.5, 6.6; Cappelletti et al.; Bazzoni, Oprea; Chinea, De Leon, Marrero]
Mar 28, h. 9:30 - Speaker: Giovanni Gentili
Foliations and transverse geometry. The Boothby-Wang fibration [Blair, 4.5.4, 6.7.2; Boyer, Galicki, 2.1, 2.5]
Apr 12, h. 15:30 - Speaker: Federico Giusti
Sasakian manifolds: cohomology. [Boyer, Galicki, 2.4, 7.2]
Apr 22, h. 16:30 - Speaker: Giovanni Placini
Sasakian manifolds: cohomology. [Boyer, Galicki, 2.6, 7.4, 7.5]
May 2, h, 9.00 - Speaker: Davide Dameno
Sasakian manifolds: curvature. [Blair, 7; Boyer, Galicki, 7.3]
May 16, h.9.30 - Speaker: Elia Fusi
Sasaki–Einstein Manifolds and Volume Minimisation [Martelli, Sparks, Yau]
May 24, h.14 - Speaker: Federico Giusti
Sasaki–Einstein Manifolds and Volume Minimisation [Martelli, Sparks, Yau]
May 31, h.15 - Speaker: Asia Mainenti
Sasaki–Einstein Manifolds and Volume Minimisation [Martelli, Sparks, Yau]
June 6, h.15 - Speaker: Letizia Branca
Sasaki–Einstein Manifolds and Volume Minimisation [Martelli, Sparks, Yau]
June 13, h.15 - Speaker: Giovanni Russo
3-(α,δ) Sasaki [Agricola-Dileo]
June 20, h.15 - Speaker: Giovanni Gentili
3-(α,δ) Sasaki [Agricola-Dileo, Agricola-Dileo-Stecker]
Letizia Branca (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale)
Beatrice Brienza (Università di Torino)
Davide Dameno (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale)
Elia Fusi (University of Torino)
Giovanni Gentili (Università di Torino)
Federico Giusti (Aarhus University)
Asia Mainenti (Università di Torino)
Giovanni Placini (Università degli Studi di Cagliari)
Lapo Rubini (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
Giovanni Russo (SISSA)
Tommaso Sferruzza (Università di Parma)