Monday, July 18:
9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome and registration |
9:30 - 10:30 | A. Čap (Univ. Vienna, Austria): "Introduction to Cartan geometries" |
10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
11:00 - 12:00 | K. Neusser (ANU, Australia): "On automorphism groups of certain types of vector distributions" |
12:00 - 14:00 | lunch break |
14:00 - 15:00 | J. Slovák (Masaryk Univ., Czech Republic): "Distinguished curves in Cartan geometries" |
15:00 - 15:30 | coffee break |
15:30 - 16:30 | C. Frances (Univ. Orsay, France): "The Ferrand-Obata theorem for rank-one parabolic geometries" |
16:30 - 16:45 | break |
16:45 - 17:45 | V. Matveev (Univ. Jena, Germany): "Symmetries of projective or h-projective structure of a metric" |
Tuesday, July 19:
9:30 - 10:30 | K. Melnick (Univ. Maryland, USA): "Gromov-Zimmer theory of rigid geometric structures" |
10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
11:00 - 12:00 | S. Dumitrescu (Univ. Nice, France): "Locally homogeneous rigid geometric structures" |
12:00 - 14:00 | lunch break |
14:00 - 15:00 | D. Constantine (Univ. Chicago, USA): "Compact Clifford-Klein forms and group actions" |
15:00 - 15:30 | coffee break |
15:30 - 16:30 | A. Zeghib (ENS Lyon, France): "Kähler manifolds with big automorphism group" |
16:30 - 16:45 | break |
16:45 - 17:45 | R. Feres (Univ. Washington, USA): "Random dynamics and spectrum of classical mechanical systems with partial information" |
Wednesday, July 20:
9:30 - 10:30 | I. Kath (Univ. Greifswald, Germany): "G2(2)-structures on indefinite symmetric spaces" |
10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
11:00 - 12:00 | R. Gover (Univ. Auckland, New Zealand): "Conformal tractors and infinitesimal automorphisms: An introduction" |
12:00 - 14:00 | lunch break |
14:00 - 14:30 | C. Rossi (Univ. Avignon, France): "Globally hyperbolic conformally flat maximal spacetimes" |
14:30 - 15:00 | D. Ruiz (Univ. Maryland, USA): "Affine deformations of hyperbolic structures and the Margulis invariant" |
15:00 - 15:30 | coffee break |
15:30 - 16:00 | K. Mann (Univ. Chicago, USA): "Global fixed points for groups acting on the plane" |
16:00 - 16:30 | J.-P. Michel (Univ. Luxembourg): "Higher symmetries of Laplacian and quantization" |
16:30 - 16:45 | break |
16:45 - 17:45 | G. Manno (Univ. Milano, Italy): "Projectively homogeneous metrics on 2-dimensional manifolds" |
Thursday, July 21:
9:30 - 10:30 | D. Alekseevski (Univ. Hull, UK): "Classification of homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds of a semisimple Lie group" |
10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
11:00 - 12:00 | Y. Kamishima (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan): "Lorentzian similarity manifolds" |
after 12:00 | lunch and free afternoon |
On Thursday evening we plan to organize a gathering at a "Heurigen."
Friday, July 22:
9:30 - 10:30 | L. Marquis (Univ. Rennes, France): "Finite volume quotients of Hilbert geometries" |
10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
11:00 - 12:00 | F. Kassel (Univ. Chicago, USA/CNRS, France): "Geometry and spectra of complete AdS3-manifolds" |