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
THE END
Toby Bailey