Riemannian Geometry Past, Present and Future: an homage to Marcel Berger

Europe/Paris
Marilyn and James Simons Conference Center (IHES)

Marilyn and James Simons Conference Center

IHES

35, route de Chartres 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette (France)
Description

Marcel Berger greatly contributed to mathematics, through his own publications, for example on holonomy groups, symmetric spaces, curvature pinching and the sphere theorem, spectral geometry or systolic geometry. His influence goes far beyond his research papers. His books and surveys have inspired not only his students, but a much broader audience. Important features of Marcel Berger's mathematical heritage are also his seminar and his influence on the round tables organized by his friend Arthur L. Besse. Marcel Berger's Riemannian geometry seminar held at the Universite Paris VII in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, hosted lectures by both reputable mathematicians and young researchers. For the participants, it was a unique place for lively and informal mathematical discussions and exchanges, as well as inspiration.

AMS Notices is running a memorial article in the December issue, which is freely available online at
http://www.ams.org/publications/journals/notices/201711/rnoti-p1285.pdf
Editor's Note: Claude LeBrun has kindly assembled this memorial for Marcel Berger.

List of speakers:


Simon BRENDLE (Columbia University)
Robert BRYANT (Duke University)
Yaiza CANZANI GARCIA (University of North Carolina)
Gilles CARRON (Université de Nantes)
Jeff CHEEGER (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
Tobias COLDING (MIT)
Karsten GROVE (Notre Dame University)
Colin GUILLARMOU (CNRS and Université Paris-Sud)
Ursula HAMENSTÄDT (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Dominique HULIN (Université Paris-Sud)
Bruce KLEINER (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
Blaine LAWSON (Stony Brook University)
André NEVES (University of Chicago)
Dorothee SCHÜTH (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Robert YOUNG (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

Organising Committee:


Pierre BÉRARD (Institut Fourier, Grenoble)
Gérard BESSON (CNRS & Université Grenoble Alpes)
Pierre PANSU (Université Paris-Sud)

 

Scientific Committee:


Werner BALLMANN (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)
Lionel BÉRARD BERGERY (Université de Lorraine)
Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNON (CNRS & IHES)
Yves COLIN de VERDIÈRE (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Mikhail GROMOV (IHES)
Jacques LAFONTAINE (Université de Montpellier)

 

 

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Contact: Elisabeth Jasserand
    • 1
      Welcome of the participants
    • 12:45
      Lunch Buffet
    • Wednesday 6
    • 2
      Algebraically Constrained Special Holonomy Metrics and Second-order Associative 3-folds
      Orateur: Robert BRYANT
      VIDEO
    • 3
      Harmonic coarse embeddings
      Orateur: Dominique HULIN
      VIDEO
    • 16:30
      Coffee break
    • 4
      Compactness of conformal metric with a critical integrability assumption.
      Orateur: Gilles CARRON
      VIDEO
    • 5
      Welcome coffee
    • 6
      Boundary and lens rigidity for non-convex manifolds
      Orateur: Colin GUILLARMOU
      VIDEO
    • Thursday 7
    • 7
      Ricci flow, diffeomorphism groups, and the Generalized Smale Conjecture.
      Orateur: Bruce KLEINER
      VIDEO
    • 11:20
      Coffee break
    • 8
      The geometry of 3-manifolds before and after Perelman
      Orateur: Ursula HAMENSTÄDT
      VIDEO
    • 12:30
      Lunch Buffet
    • 9
      Quantifying nonorientability and filling multiples of embedded
      Orateur: Robert YOUNG
      VIDEO
    • 10
      Positive curvature and beyond: A status report and future peek
      Orateur: Karsten GROVE
      VIDEO
    • 16:20
      Coffee break
    • 11
      Welcome coffee
    • Friday 8
    • 12
      Spectrum and Curvature
      Orateur: Dorothee SCHÜTH
    • 13
      Noncollapsed Gromov-Hausdorff limit spaces with Ricci curvature bounded below.
      Orateur: Jeff CHEEGER
      VIDEO
    • 11:20
      Coffee break
    • 14
      Gromov’s Weyl Law and Denseness of minimal hypersurfaces
      Orateur: André NEVES
      VIDEO
    • 12:30
      Lunch buffet
    • 15
      Optimal regularity for geometric flows
      Orateur: Tobias COLDING
      VIDEO
    • 16
      Remembering Marcel
    • 16:20
      Coffee break
    • 17
      Remembering Marcel
    • 17:30
      Reception
    • 18
      Welcome coffee
    • Saturday 9
    • 19
      TBA
      Orateur: Simon BRENDLE
    • 20
      Statistics of randomized Laplace eigenfunction
      Orateur: Yaiza CANZANI GARCIA
      VIDEO
    • 11:20
      Coffee break
    • 21
      A Monge-Ampère Operator in Symplectic Geometry (Talk presented by P. PANSU)
      Orateur: Blaine LAWSON
      VIDEO