Speaker:
Stefan Hollands

Coordinator:
Jörg Lehnert

Address:
Inselstraße 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany

Contact:
+49(0)341-9959-641
+49(0)341-9959-658
 IMPRS

Lectures in the Winter Semester 2014/15

IMPRS Ringvorlesung "Geometry"

General information

  • Time and location Lectures: Monday 13.15–14.45, room G 10 (MPI MiS)
  • Time and location Tutorials (Miaomiao Zhu): Tuesday 11.30 - 12.30, room A 02 (MPI MiS)
  • Target audience: MSc students, PhD students, Postdocs
  • Prerequisites: Advanced calculus
  • Reference: J.Jost, Riemannian geometry, 6th edition, Springer, 2011 [DOI]/[TOC]
  • Videos from all lectures: Every lecture will be recorded and can be viewed later. For more info, streaming and download see the media WWW page at the MPI MIS.

Dates of the lectures

Dates: 13.10.2014, 20.10.2014

  • Topic: Metric spaces and geodesics
  • Lecturer: Jürgen Jost

Dates: 27.10.2014, 03.11.2014

  • Topic: Riemannian, Finsler manifolds
  • Lecturer: Hans-Bert Rademacher

Date: 10.11.2014

  • Topic: Symplectic manifolds and algebraic varieties
  • Lecturer: Jürgen Jost

Date: 17.11.2014

  • Topic: Basics of algebraic topology
  • Lecturer: Jürgen Jost

Dates: 24.11.2014, 01.12.2014

  • Topic: Notions of curvature in Riemannian and metric geometry
    (generalized sectional and Ricci curvature bounds)
  • Lecturer: Bernd Kirchheim

Date: 08.12.2014

  • Topic: Jacobi fields, comparison theorems
  • Lecturer: Hans-Bert Rademacher

Date: 15.12.2014

  • Topic: Analysis on metric spaces
  • Lecturer: Bernd Kirchheim

Date: 05.01.2015, 12.01.2015

  • Topic: Optimal transport
  • Lecturer: Bernd Kirchheim

Date: 19.01.2015

  • Topic: Closed geodesics
  • Lecturer: Hans-Bert Rademacher

Date: 26.01.2015

  • Topic: Fibre bundles, Dirac operators I
  • Lecturer: Jürgen Jost

Date: 02.02.2015

  • Topic: Fibre bundles, Dirac operators II
  • Lecturer: Hans-Bert Rademacher
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