Workshop on:

New aspects of surface theory

Place Date Topics Format

Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Ohsawa Campus

Building 8 (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

Room 610 (Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences)

Friday

 

15 May

 

2009

 

New generalizations and applications of classical surface theory, especially those making use of the DPW (generalized Weierstrass) representation

Six talks on recent research topics (30 minute talk, 15 minute discussion period)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT :

Martin Guest

martin at tmu.ac.jp

This workshop is partially supported by JSPS grant (A) 21244004001 "Exploitation of new relations between differential geometry and quantum cohomology in the context of integrable systems".


PROGRAM

Friday 15 May:

10:30-11:15 Josef Dorfmeister (TU Munich) "Symmetries of K-surfaces"

11:30-12:15 Shimpei Kobayashi (Hirosaki University) "Global solutions of elliptic (G, rho)-systems"

lunch

13:30-14:15 Martin Guest (Tokyo Metropolitan University) "Surfaces, DPW, and quantum cohomology I"

14:30-15:15 Wayne Rossman(Kobe University) "Surfaces, DPW, and quantum cohomology II"

tea

16:00-16:45 SeiichiUdagawa (Nihon University) "The DPW-method for affine spheres and theTzitzeica equation"

17:00-17:45 Jun-ichi Inoguchi (Yamagata University), "Homogeneous spaces which admit the DPW-scheme"