This is the second announcement for the workshop "Geometry of Spaces
with Upper and Lower Curvature Bounds" which will take place at the
Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada September 12--16, 2022. This
workshop is part of the semester-long thematic program on Nonsmooth
Riemannian and Lorentzian Geometry.
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/22-23/nonsmooth
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Kingshook Biswas (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
Christine Escher (Oregon State U)
Tadashi Fujioka (Osaka U)
Melanie Graf (U Tubingen)
Urs Lang (ETH Zurich)
Nina Lebedeva (Steklov Institute for Mathematics, St Petersburg)
Ricardo Mendes (U Oklahoma)
Chikako Mese (Johns Hopkins U)
Adam Moreno (Amherst College)
Koichi Nagano (U Tsukuba)
Stephan Stadler (MPIM Bonn)
Tetsu Toyoda (Kogakuin U)
Stefan Wenger (U Fribourg)
Burkhard Wilking (U Muenster)
Masoumeh Zarei (U Muenster)
The week prior to the workshop (September 6–9) and in preparation for it, there will be two mini-courses on the main themes of the workshop:
CAT(K) spaces given by Alexander Lytchak (U. Cologne)
and
Alexandrov spaces given by Anton Petrunin (Pennsylvania State U)
Additionally, Bruce Kleiner (Courant Institute, NYU) will give three talks during the workshop on September 12-14, as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series that forms a part of the thematic program.
WORKSHOP WEBSITE:
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/22-23/nonsmooth-bounds
REGISTRATION:
Registration is now available from the main thematic program page or directly at the following link
https://www.fields.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/register?form_selection=nonsmooth
Please note that you can register for online participation only as follows:
FUNDING:
Funding is available to support the participation of undergraduate
and graduate students, postdocs, and those without other sources of
support. Please fill out the registration form in order to apply for
funding.
We look forward to seeing you in September!
Best regards,
Vitali Kapovitch
on behalf of the organizers:
Vitali Kapovich,
Viktor Schroeder, and
Catherine Searle