Geometric structures, compactifications and group actions

Schedule

All talks take place in the "main conference room" (ground floor) of the Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, 7 Rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg, France.

Conference Dinner

The conference dinner takes place on Wednesday at 20:00 at Restaurant Gurtlerhoft, 13 Pl. de la Cathédrale, 67000 Strasbourg, France.

Organizers

• Andreas Cap (Universität Wien)

• Charles Frances (Université de Strasbourg)

• Karin Melnick (University of Maryland)

• Thomas Mettler (UniDistance Suisse)

• Katharina Neusser (Masaryk University)

Program description

The unifying background of the meeting will be rigid differential-geometric structures, such as conformal and projective structures. This refers both to structures locally modelled on homogeneous spaces and to their curved analogues. One topic will be applications of Cartan connections to locally homogeneous structures, their moduli spaces, and compactifications. A related topic will be conformal compactifications such as Poincare-Einstein manifolds, and analogues for other ambient geometries. Another topic will be group actions preserving such structures and their rigidity.

Main Speakers

• Thierry Barbot (Université d'Avignon)

• Olivier Biquard (Sorbonne Université)

• Andreas Cap (University of Vienna)

• Jeffrey Danciger (University of Texas at Austin)

• David Dumas (University of Illinois at Chicago)

• Maciej Dunajski (University of Cambridge)

• Rod Gover (University of Auckland)

• François Guéritaud (Université de Strasbourg)

• Olivier Guichard (Université de Strasbourg)

• Jun-Muk Hwang (IBS-CCG, Daejeon)

• Wojciech Kryński (IMPAN Warsaw)

• Yoshihiko Matsumoto (Osaka University)

• Vladimir Matveev (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

• Karin Melnick (University of Maryland)

• Katharina Neusser (Masaryk University)

• Vincent Pecastaing (Université Côte d'Azur)

• Jan Swoboda (Universität Heidelberg)

• Hartmut Weiss (Universität Kiel)

• Michael Wolf (Rice University)

• Abdelghani Zeghib (ENS Lyon)

Participants

• Thierry Barbot (Université d'Avignon)

• Jack Borthwick (Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté)

• Andreas Cap (University of Vienna)

• Adam Chalumeau (Université de Strasbourg)

• Diptaishik Choudhury (Université de Luxembourg)

• Xian Dai (Universität Heidelberg)

• Charles Daly (Brown University)

• Jeff Danciger (University of Texas)

• David Dumas (University of Illinois at Chicago)

• Maciej Dunajski (University of Cambridge)

• Jacob Erickson (University of Maryland)

• Keegan Flood (Masaryk University)

• Charles Frances (Université de Strasbourg)

• Rod Gover (University of Auckland)

• Francois Guéritaud (Université de Strasbourg/CNRS)

• Olivier Guichard (Université de Strasbourg)

• Chistoph Harrach (University of Vienna)

• Jun-Muk Hwang (IBS-CCG, Daejeon)

• Wojciech Krynski (IMPAN Warsaw)

• Clarence Kineider (Université de Strasbourg)

• Nakyung Lee (University of Maryland)

• Spyridon Lentas (University of Maryland)

• Tianyu Ma (Universität Jena)

• Omid Makhmali (CFT, Polish Academy of Science)

• Mauro Mantegazza (Masaryk University)

• Yoshihiko Matsumoto (Osaka University)

• Vladimir Matveev (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

• Lilia Mehidi (ENS Lyon)

• Karin Melnick (University of Maryland)

• Thomas Mettler (UniDistance Suisse)

• Martin Mion-Mouton (Technion)

• Katharina Neusser (Masaryk University)

• Pallavi Panda (Université de Strasbourg/Luxembourg)

• Vincent Pecastaing (Université Côte d'Azur)

• Oskar Riedler (Universität Münster)

• Marianne Rydzek (Université de Strasbourg)

• Katja Sagerschnig (CFT, Polish Academy of Science)

• Josef Silhan (Masaryk University)

• Rym Smaï (Université d'Avignon)

• Nicolas Stutz (Université de Strasbourg)

• Florian Stecker (University of Texas at Austin)

• Jan Swoboda (Universität Heidelberg)

• Arman Taghavi-Chabert (University of Warsaw)

• Hartmut Weiss (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

• Mike Wolf (Rice University)

• Abdelghani Zeghib (ENS Lyon)