Workshop on Geometry and Lie Groups

(including the Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium)

March 25 - 26, 2011

Room 210, Run Run Shaw Building, HKU

Abstracts (in PDF format)

Programme Friday, March 25

10:00 - 10:05	Opening Remarks Ngaiming Mok (Director of IMR, University of Hong Kong)
10:05 - 11:05	Leibniz algebroids and generalizations of geometry Peter Bouwknegt (Australian National University)
11:15 - 12:15	Some results on self-shrinkers Yuanlong Xin (Fudan University and IMS, CUHK)
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00	Higher gauge theory, division algebras and superstrings John C. Baez (University of California, Riverside and Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore)
15:05 - 16:05	Intersection of subspaces and Horn inequalities for the eigenvalues of sums of selfadjoint operators Wing Suet Li (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30	Parallel transport and the Peter-Weyl theorem as the momentum space representation for a compact Lie group William D. Kirwin (Universität zu Köln and Instituto Superior Ténico, Lisboa)
Workshop Dinner

Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium Saturday, March 26

10:00 - 11:00	Fractional index theory Varghese Mathai (University of Adelaide)
Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:15	Associated varieties of fundamental series representations David A. Vogan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Lunch

Organized by Ngaiming Mok, Jiang-hua Lu and Siye Wu