Complex Methods in Differential Geometry

Conference Programme

Coffee will be provided each day in the break 11:00--11:30. Lunch will be from 12:30-1:30 on each day that there is an afternoon programme.

The conference will take place at the James Clerk Maxwell Building on the Kings Buildings site on Mayfield Road.

Monday 18th Aug

10:00-11:00

Registration

11:30-12:30

R. Bryant
The twistor construction of Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature on the n-sphere

2:00-3:00

K. Galicki
Quaternionic geometry and Einstein manifolds

3:30-4:30

L. Schwachhoefer
Holonomies and their application in complex geometry

Tuesday 19th Aug

10:00-11:00

J. Zhou
Kinematic formulas in integral geometry

11:30-12:30

M.G. Eastwood
A CR edge-of-the-wedge theorem by pushing analytic discs

2:00-3:00

C.R. LeBrun
Einstein metrics and smooth topology I

3:30-4:30

A. D'Agnolo
Integral transforms and D-modules

Wednesday 20th Aug

10:00-11:00

R. Bryant
Pseudo-riemannian holonomy of split type: a classification

11:30-12:30

M.A. Singer
ASD connected sums of ASD orbifolds

FREE AFTERNOON

Thursday 21st Aug

10:00-11:00

C.R. Graham
A Blow-Up Approach to Edge-of-the-Wedge Theorems

11:30-12:30

D. Joyce
On the algebraic geometry of hypercomplex manifolds

2:00-3:00

C.R. LeBrun
Einstein metrics and smooth topology II

3:30-4:30

A.R. Gover
An invariant twistor calculus for almost grassmannian (paraconformal) geometries

Friday 22nd Aug

10:00-11:00

K.P. Tod
Which Riemannian manifolds are Einstein-Weyl

11:30-12:30

J. Armstrong

2:00-3:00

W. Harvey

3:30-4:30

O. Biquard
Twistor spaces of coadjoint orbits

Monday 25th Aug

10:00-11:00

A.G. Kovalev
L^2 moduli space, Hitchin's equations and parabolic bundles

11:30-12:30

S. Merkulov
Quantum cohomology and semisimple Frobenius supermanifolds

2:00-3:00

A. Harris
Structure-jumping versus regularity in complex deformations

3:30-4:30

H. Baum
Lorentzian twistor spinors and CR geometry

Tuesday 26th Aug

10:00-11:00

I. Strachan
Integrable systems and deformations of differential geometry

11:30-12:30

R.S. Ward
Geometry of Integrable Lattice Systems

2:00-3:00

R. Penrose
The googly programme for gravitation I

3:30-4:30

L.J. Mason
Globa solutions of the Rarita-Schwinger and the Einstein equations

Wednesday 27th Aug

10:00-11:00

W. Harvey
Post-modern Teichmuller theory

11:30-12:30

R. Penrose
The googly programme for gravitation II

FREE AFTERNOON

Thursday 28th Aug

10:00-11:00

A. Cap
Parabolic geometries

11:30-12:30

J. A. Wolf
The geometry of linear cycle spaces

2:00-3:00

J. Wood
Weierstrass formulae for harmonic morphisms

3:30-4:30

D. Alekseevsky
Homogeneous special Kahler manifolds

Friday 29th Aug

10:00-11:00

A. Hwang
A momentum construction of Kahler metrics

11:30-12:30

Z. Ran
On the degree of Fano manifolds

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Toby Bailey