Workshop on Geometric Analysis
Cape Town, South Africa
December 3-7, 2012

Cape Town

The workshop will feature two mini-courses, of four lectures each:

We will also have the following lectures:

  • George Ellis, University of Cape Town
    The evolving block universe: a more realistic view of spacetime geometry (slides)
  • Bruce Bartlett, Stellenbosch University
    Invariants of 3-manifolds via generators and relations of the 1-2-3 bordism 2-category (slides)
  • Jesse Alt, Witwatersrand University
    Conformal holonomy theory
  • Alexander Kahle, Georg-August University,
    Superconnections and Index Theory
  • Calvin Tadmon, University of Pretoria,
    On the constraint problem for the Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs system (slides)
  • Sehun Chun, AIMS
    Riemannian geometry of the heart: Open problems and current progress
  • Augustin Batubenge, University of South Africa
    Symplectic structures and Hamiltonian systems on F-manifolds
  • Fortune Massamba, University of Botswana
    On lightlike geometry in indefinite trans-Sasakian manifolds
  • Kesh Govinder, University of KwaZulu Natal
    Interplay of group theory, Painleve analysis and dynamical systems analysis
  • Jesse Ratzkin, University of Cape Town
    Introductory lectures: a crash course in Riemannian geometry
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