Workshop on field theory and geometric flows

Munich, November 24 - 28, 2008,  Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center, Theresienstraße 37,  Seminarroom A348/349

Time
Monday,
November 24

Tuesday,
November 25

Wednesday,
November 26

Thursday,
November 27

Friday,
November 28

Chair:
Dieter Lüst
                                       


 9:30-10:30
Gang Tian
A new class of Kähler metrics and Ricci flow
Gerhard Huisken
Mean curvature flow, inverse
mean
curvature flow and isoperimetric inequalities                  
Ernst Kuwert
The Willmore functional: flow, constrained minimizers         
Lei Ni
Perelman's reduced volume
and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities
                       
Duong Hong Phong
Estimates and convergence
criteria for the K
ähler-Ricci flow                                
10:30-11:00
Coffeebreak
Coffeebreak Coffeebreak Coffeebreak Coffeebreak
11:00-12:00
Daniel Friedan
Gradient property of the boundary renormalization group flow for
supersymmetric 1+1 dimensional
quantum field theories    
Huai-Dong Cao
Geometry of Ricci solitons
10:45-11:45

ASC Colloquium

Jim Isenberg
On degenerate neck pinches in Ricci flow
Kostas Skenderis
Holography for non-conformal branes
12:00-14:30
Lunchbreak
Lunchbreak Lunchbreak Lunchbreak Lunchbreak
14:30-15:30
Nick Manton
Ricci flow and vortices
Ilka Brunner
Interfaces in Landau
Ginzburg theory

15:00-16:00
Samson Shatashvili
String field theory and RG
14:00-15:00
Matthias Gaberdiel
RG flows in conformal
field theory

Mauro Carfora
Green functions for the
Ricci flow and their
applications

15:00-16:00
Claude Warnick
Ricci flows connecting Taub-bolt and Taub-NUT metric
15:30-16:00
Coffeebreak Coffeebreak 16:00-16:30
Coffeebreak
16:00-16:30
Coffeebreak
Coffeebreak
16:00-17:00
Marios Petropoulos
Gravitational instantons, Ricci flows and integrable structures
Constantin Bachas
Conformal interfaces
in string theory
16:30-17:30
Eric Woolgar

Mass, quasi-local mass, and a Ricci flow for static metrics
16:30-17:30
Todd Oliynyk
Stability of the (two-loop) renormalization group flow
for nonlinear sigma models

19:00


Dinner at Georgenhof
Friedrichstr. 1