Conferences, Lectures, Talks and Seminars – Page 2

Seminar on soap bubbles and positive scalar curvature

Together with Rudolf Zeidler I am organizing a reading seminar this winter on generalized soap bubbles and positive scalar curvature. The goal of it is to read the corresponding preprint by Chodosh-Li (arXiv:2008.11888). The two main results we want to understand are the following: No closed aspherical manifold of dimension 4 or 5 admits a … Continue reading

Preise auf der DMV-Jahrestagung 2020

Die Jahrestagung 2020 der DMV fand vor zwei Wochen statt. Hier könnt ihr einen Kurzbericht dazu lesen: link. An dieser Stelle möchte ich kurz von den zwei auf dieser Jahrestagung verliehenen Preisen berichten: Anlässlich ihres 130-jährigen Bestehens hat die DMV die Minkowski-Medaille für besondere mathematische Forschungsleistungen geschaffen. Mit der Minkowski-Medaille will die DMV Mathematikerinnen und Mathematiker … Continue reading

Impressions from the SPP Conference

Some pictures from the SPP Conference in April 2019 in Münster. Let me start with a picture of the speaker of the SPP, Bernhard Hanke, explaining at the beginning of the conference the next steps leading to the second funding period of the SPP. (I unfortunately forgot to take a picture of Carsten Balleier from … Continue reading

AMS Special Session on the Mathematics of John Roe

There was a Special Session on Coarse Geometry, Index Theory, and Operator Algebras: Around the Mathematics of John Roe at the Spring Central and Western Joint Sectional Meeting of the AMS last weekend to which Christopher and I were invited to give talks. John Roe passed away last year. His personal webpage is still online … Continue reading

Bavarian Geometry/Topology Meeting

These days, there was the 2nd Bavarian Geometry/Topology Meeting, organized by Fabian Hebestreit and Markus Land, and hopefully becoming a tradition as the NRW topology meeting which by now had its 28th recurrent. Main event of the meeting were the lectures of Oscar Randal-Williams from Oxford, who discussed work on the cohomology of the mapping … Continue reading

Slides and Pictures from the Kickoff Meeting

Listening to 33 math talks within 2 times 6 hours is certainly a unique experience. If you missed the event, you may enjoy the slides of the talks: All Slides for Download

Séminare Bourbaki: Convex-cocompactness in higher rank

Today, there was the Séminaire Bourbaki, which takes place every four months in Paris. The list of the talks can be found here. Interesting from the point of view „Geometry at Infinity“ was especially the talk of Olivier Guichard regarding work of Kapovich-Leeb-Porti and Labourie on convex-cocompact groups in higher rank symmetric spaces: Another talk … Continue reading

Non-positively curved groups and spaces

This week there was the workshop “Non-positively curved groups and spaces” in Regensburg.