Opening Colloquium

                                                       Freiburg, April 24-25, 2009

 

April 24	Hörsaal  Virologie
10:30 – 10:40	Welcome
10:40 – 11:30	B. White, Stanford University: Densities of singularities in minimal varieties and in mean curvature flows
11:40 – 12:30	R. Schätzle, University of Tübingen: The Willmore functional in geometry and the calculus of variations
12:30 – 14:30	Lunch break
14:30 – 15:20	C. Elliott, University of Warwick: Interfaces, Free Boundaries and Surface PDEs: Computational Approaches
15:30 – 16:20	M. Simon, University of Freiburg: Ricci flow of non-collapsed 3-manifolds whose Ricci  curvature is bounded from below
16:30 – 17:00	Coffee / Tee
17:00 – 17:50	V. Bangert, University of Freiburg: On minimal closed normal currents
18:30	D i n n e r
April 25	Hörsaal  Weissmann-Haus
09:00 – 09:50	I. Taimanov, Novosibirsk State University: Two-dimensional Dirac operator and the Willmore functional
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee / Tee
10:30 – 11:20	C. De Lellis, University of Zurich: h-principle and fluid dynamics
11:30 – 12:20	J. Avron, Israel Institute of Technology (Technion): Swimming in empty curved space: Baron von Munchhausen and the falling cat