Symmetry in Geometry and Physics

SCHEDULE

Wednesday, September 14:

8.30	Registration in “Aula Picone” of Math. Department, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (optional registration fee: 15 euro)
9.30	Opening session
10.15	Bourguignon	Some highlights of Dmitry Alekseevky's work.
11.15	Coffee break
11.40	Salamon	Reduced holonomy, hypersurfaces and extensions.
12.40	Lunch
15.00	Wood	Harmonic maps and morphisms.
16.15	Emmer	Escher, Coxeter and symmetry: the story of a film

Thursday, September 15:

9.30	Vinberg	Short SO3-subgroups in simple Lie groups and associated quasielliptic geometries.
10.30	Coffee break
11.00	Heintze	Symmetric Spaces and Kac-Moody Algebras
12.00	Lunch
15.00	Ammann	The first Dirac eigenvalue in a conformal class.
16.15	Baer	Wave equations on Lorentzian manifolds and quantization.

Friday, September 16:

9.30	Gauduchon	The scalar curvature as a momentum map.
10.30	Coffee break
11.00	Cantarini	Infinite dimensional primitive linearly compact Lie superalgebras.
12.00	Lunch
15.00	Hijazi	Special Spinors and special submanifols.
16.15	Van Proeyen	The identification of conformal hypercomplex and quaternionic manifolds.

Saturday, September 17:

9.30	Friedrich	Special Geometries and Torsion.
10.30	Closing session
11.30	Touristic excursion