Workshop
Workshop on Geometric and Renormalization Group Flows
Gerhard Huisken, Todd Oliynyk
22 Nov 2006 – 24 Nov 2006
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
(Albert Einstein Institute)
Potsdam, Germany
The aim of this workshop is to bring together mathematicians and physicists interested in the following topics:
- geometric flows,
- renormalization group flows,
- and entropies.
Workshop Home: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~olito/WS/index.html
| 22 Nov 2006 | |
| 10:00 | Talk Arkady Tseytlin String sigma models and RG flows |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | Talk Knut Smoczyk Mean curvature flow in higher codimension |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Talk Ioannis Bakas Field theoretic and algebraic aspects of certain curvature flows |
| 23 Nov 2006 | |
| 10:00 | Talk Alexander Zamolodchikov Boundary RG flows |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | Talk Ernst Kuwert The Willmore flow |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Talk Eric Woolgar A gradient flow for non-linear sigma models: some applications of Hamilton-Perelman theory |
| 24 Nov 2006 | |
| 10:00 | Talk Mauro Carfora Ricci flow, entropies and the averaging of cosmological spacetimes |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | Talk Klaus Ecker Mean Value Formulas for Evolving Metrics |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Talk Burkhard Wilking Manifolds with positive curvature operators are space forms |
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