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EUROPEAN DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY ENDEAVOUR
Newsletter #15

Introduction

Introduction


Reports From Meetings

Reports from meetings in Lisbon and Luso

--- Young Researchers Symposium held at IST, Lisbon, July 25-26, 2003. Part of the XIV International Congress of Mathematical Physics. Details may be found here

---- EMS Mathematical Weekend held in Lisbon, September 12-14, 2003. Meeting organized by the European Mathematical Society and the Portuguese Mathematical Society. Details may be found here

---- National Meeting of the Program "Novos Talentos em Matematica" held in Luso, September 19-21, 2003. Undergraduate student conference sponsored by the Gulbenkian Foundation. Details may be found here.

Reports From Meetings

Torino meeting

"New Perspectives on Holonomy and Submanifolds", Torino, 23-24 April 2004.

Speakers: P. Gauduchon (Palaiseau), E.Heintze (Augsburg), S. Ivanov (Sofia), D. Matessi (London) C. Olmos (Cordoba), S. Salamon (Torino), A. di Scala (Roma), A. Swann (Odense).

Organizers: E. Abbena, S. Console, A. Fino, S. Garbiero

Reports From Meetings

Lecce meeting in honour of Lieven Vanhecke

-- International Conference Curvature in Geometry in honour of Professor Lieven Vanhecke

Lecce (Italy), June 11-14, 2003

Conference web site is here

Reports From Meetings

EuroConference VBAC 2003

EuroConference VBAC 2003

Supported by the European Commission, High-Level Scientific Conferences, Contract no. HPCF-CT-2001-00248,

took place

1-5 July, 2003 - Porto, Portugal.

Dedicated to Andrei N. Tyurin

The meeting covered a range of topics in the area of Vector Bundles on Algebraic Curves with special emphasis on moduli spaces and topology. It had a total of 87 participants, with 41 under 35 years of age.

Invited speakers:

* J"orgen Andersen (Aarhus). * Igor Artamkin (Steklov Math. Institute) * Steven Bradlow (Urbana-Champaign). * V. Balaji (Chennai Mathematical Institute) * William Goldman (Maryland). * Alexei Gorodentsev (ITEP, Moscow) * Lisa Jeffrey (Toronto). * Ludmil Katzarkov (UC Irvine). * Frances Kirwan (Oxford). * Viacheslav Nikulin (Liverpool) * Miles Reid (Warwick). * Michael Thaddeus (Columbia University) * Nikolai Tyurin (Max-Plank Institute)

Conference web page is here.

Local organizers: C. Florentino & P. Gothen

Announcements of non-EDGE meetings

Pisa meeting / Lisbon Summer Lectures in Geometry

EDGE-Madrid

--- Lisbon Summer Lectures in Geometry to be held in Lisbon, June 15-18, 2003. Series of lectures by N. Mishachev and by V. Nest. Follow this link for details.

EDGE-Rome

Program "Differential Geometry and Topology", Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, Centro di Ricerca Matematica "Ennio De Giorgi", September-November 2004.

Scientific Committee: S. Donaldson (Imperial College, London), P. Gauduchon (Ecole Polythechnique, Palaiseau), C. LeBrun (SUNY, Stony Brook), S. Salamon (Imperial College, London).

See this link for details.

Announcements of non-EDGE meetings

Summer schools in Portugal

-- Summer School "Novos Talentos em Matematica"

Undergraduate student conferences sponsored by the Gulbenkian Foundation to be held in

Lisbon, September 6-10, 2004

and in Curia, September 10-12, 2004.

Follow this link for details.

Visitors/Guests/PostDocs/Moves

Visitors/Guests/Postdocs/Moves

EDGE-Madrid

31 May - 5 Jun 2004: Alastair King (University of Bath, EDGE-Warwick), visited IMAFF (CSIC, EDGE-Madrid).

EDGE-Rome

Sergio Console and Anna Fino (Torino) visited Riverside in May-June, 2004.

EDGE-Warwick

Dmitri Panov (IHES) will visit Imperial College, London (April-July)

Tom Coates(Harvard) will visit Imperial College, London (June-August)

Maciej Przanowski (Lodz, Poland) will visit Maciej Dunajski (Cambridge) from 01/06/04 till 15/06/04.

Andrew Dancer (Oxford) visited M Wang (McMaster) March 2004.

Young researchers

Young researchers

David Martinez: Universidad Carlos Tercero Madrid: 2 months April, May 2004 (EDGE-Warwick)
Preprints

Preprints

EDGE-Glasgow

D. Calderbank and M. Singer: "Toric selfdual Einstein metrics on compact orbifolds", math.DG/0405020

M. Singer (with Y. Rollin) "Non-minimal scalar-flat Kaehler surfaces and parabolic stability", math.DG/0404423

M. Verbitsky "Stable bundles on positive principal elliptic fibrations", math.AG/0403430

T. Bailey (with M. Eastwood & S. Gindikin) "Smoothly Parameterised Cech Cohomology of Complex Manifolds", math.CV/0406142

R. Ward (with B. Piette) "Planar Skyrmions: Vibrational Modes and Dynamics", hep-th/0402210

L. David & I. Strachan "Compatible metrics on a manifold and non-local bi-Hamiltonian structures", math.DG/0404410

E. Rees (with V. Buchstaber) "Rings of continuous functions, symmetric products, and Frobenius algebras", math.RA/0403357

EDGE-Madrid

S.B. Bradlow, O.Garcia-Prada (EDGE-Madrid), and P.B. Gothen (EDGE-Madrid). Representations of surface groups in the general linear group, Publicaciones de la RSME (in print).

A. Cannas da Silva (EDGE-Madrid, Portugal). Introduction to Symplectic and Hamiltonian Geometry. Book. Publicaçoes Matem'aticas do IMPA, 2003.

M. Fernandez (EDGE-Madrid) and V. Munoz (EDGE-Madrid). Homotopy properties of symplectic blow ups. Publicaciones de la RSME(in print).

M. Fern'andez (EDGE-Madrid), V. Munoz (EDGE-Madrid) and L. Ugarte. Weakly Lefschetz symplectic manifolds, math.SG/0404479.

EDGE-Munich

G. Bande and D. Kotschick: The geometry of symplectic pairs

G. Bande, P. Ghiggini and D. Kotschick: Stability theorems for symplectic and contact pairs

P. Ghiggini: Ozsvath-Szabo invariants and fillability of contact structures

P. Ghiggini, P. Lisca and A. Stipsicz: Classification of tight contact structures on small Seifert 3-manifolds with base $e_0geq 0$

B. Hanke and T. Schick: Enlargeability and index theory

J. Kedra and D. McDuff: Homotopy properties of Hamiltonian group actions

Bernd Ammann, Robert Lauter, Victor Nistor, On the geometry of Riemannian manifolds with a Int. J. Math. Math. Sciences 2004:4 161--193 (2004)

Bernd Ammann Dirac eigenvalue estimates on $2$-tori, Journal of Geometry and Physics Volume 51, Issue 3 , July 2004, 372-386

Bernd Ammann, Robert Lauter, Victor Nistor, Andras Vasy, Complex powers and non-compact manifolds

Bernd Ammann, Emmanuel Humbert, Bertrand Morel, Un probl`eme de type Yamabe sur les vari'et'es spinorielles compactes, to appear in Compt. Rend. Acad. Sc. Math.

Bernd Ammann, Emmanuel Humbert, Positive mass theorem for the Yamabe problem on spin manifolds to appear in GAFA

Ch. Bär and M. Dahl: The First Dirac Eigenvalue on Manifolds with Positive Scalar Curvature, to appear in Proc. AMS

Ch. Bär and S. Moroianu: Heat Kernel Asymptotics for Roots of Generalized Laplacians, Intern. J. Math. 14, 397-412(2003)

Ch. Bär and M. Dahl: Small eigenvalues of the Conformal Laplacian, GAFA 13, 483-508 (2003)

Ch. Bär and S. Schopka: The Dirac Determinant of Spherical Space Forms, in: S. Hildebrandt, H. Karcher (Eds.): Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, Springer-Verlag, 39-67 (2003)

EDGE-Rome

Paolo Lisca, Andras Stipsicz "Ozsvath--Szabo invariants and tight contact three-manifolds, I" arXiv:math.SG/0404135

Paolo Lisca, Andras Stipsicz "Ozsvath-Szabo invariants and tight contact three-manifolds, II" arXiv:math.SG/0404136

Paolo Lisca, Gordana Matic "Transverse contact structures on Seifert 3-manifolds" arXiv:math.SG/0405329

Paolo Ghiggini, Paolo Lisca, Andras Stipsicz "Classification of tight contact structures on small Seifert 3-manifolds with e_0geq 0" arXiv:math.SG/0406080

EDGE-Sofia

Stefan Ivanov, Vasil Tsanov, "Complex product structures on some simple Lie groups", math.DG/0405584.

Stefan Ivanov, Vasil Tsanov, Simeon Zamkovoy, "Hyper-ParaHermitian manifolds with torsion", math.DG/0405585.

Bogdan Alexandrov "On weak holonomy", math.DG/0403479.

EDGE-Warwick

A. Dancer and A. Swann (EDGE-Odense). Toric hypersymplectic quotients. math.DG/0404547

M. Dunajski, S. Gindikin, L.J.Mason (2004) Solitons and admissible families of rational curves in twistor spaces, math-ph/0403021

J Dorfmeister, M Kilian. Dressing preserving the fundamental group math.DG/0404480.

S-P Kobayashi, M Kilian, W Rossman, N Schmitt. Constant mean curvature surfaces of any positive genus math.DG/0403381

M Kilian, S-P Kobayashi, W Rossman, N Schmitt.Constant mean curvature surfaces in three dimensional space forms. DG/0403366

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