Workshop: Index theory and applications to positive scalar curvature and related areas
- Date: Mon, 4 - Fri, 8 Jun 2018
- Location: Level 7 of the Ingkarni Wardli Building University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus
- Cost: A $55 registration fee will be charged to non-speakers/organisers, with a discount to $44 for AMSI or AustMS members
- More information: Register to attend workshop
- Contact: Mathai Varghese (Adelaide) Organiser
- Email: mathai.varghese@adelaide.edu.au
- Hao Guo (Adelaide) Organiser
- Jesse Gell-Redman (Melbourne) Organiser
- Diarmuid Crowley (Melbourne) Organiser
About the workshop
The main theme of this workshop is Index Theory and its various generalisations and applications. Index Theory, which originated nearly 55 years ago with the fundamental work of Sir Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer (Abel Prize winners in 2004), is a highly active area of research that acts as a bridge between topology, geometry, analysis with significant applications to mathematical physics.
A key focus of the workshop is applications of index theory to positive scalar curvature, where the famous Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture has been a guiding principle in the research on positive scalar curvature for over thirty years.
Another key focus is the applications to representation theory of Lie groups, and yet another is applications to String Theory and condensed matter physics.
Speakers
- David Baraglia University of Adelaide
- Stanley Chang Wellesley College
- Guanheng Chen University of Adelaide
- Diarmuid Crowley University of Melbourne
- Xianzhe Dai University of California, Santa Barbara
- Jozef Dodziuk City University of New York
- Jesse Gell-Redman University of Melbourne
- Fei Han National University of Singapore
- Pedram Hekmati University of Auckland
- Nigel Higson Pennsylvania State University
- Peter Hochs University of Adelaide
- Galina Levitina University of New South Wales
- Matthias Ludewig Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
- Heather Macbeth Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Jonathan Rosenberg University of Maryland
- Nikolai Saveliev University of Miami
- Melissa Tacy University of Otago
- Guochuan Thiang University of Adelaide
- Mathai Varghese University of Adelaide
- Bryan Wang Australian National University
- Hang Wang University of Adelaide
- Huijun Yang Henan University
- Weiping Zhang Nankai University
Student talks
- Hao Guo University of Adelaide
- Michael Hallam University of Adelaide
- Simon Kitson Australian National University
- John McCarthy University of Adelaide
- Shuaige Qiao Australian National University
Schedule
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Participant information
Locations
On June 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th, the workshop will be held at:
Room 7.15 Level 7 of the Ingkarni Wardli Building
University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus
On June 6th, the workshop will be held at:
Santos Lecture Theatre
Marjoribanks Building
University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus
On June 7, the workshop dinner will be held at:
Red Ochre Grill
Submission deadline
Please note that titles and abstracts for talks need to be submitted by April 30th 2018.
Registration
A $55 registration fee will be charged to non-speakers/organisers, with a discount to $44 for AMSI or AustMS members. This will go towards funding the workshop dinner.
To register your attendance:
- if you are a speaker or organiser, you will receive an email with a link to the online registration page;
- if you are not speaking or organising and are from the University of Adelaide, click here;
- otherwise click here.
Accommodation
Participants, other than the invited speakers, are asked to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.
Internet access
The University of Adelaide provides wireless access for visitors whose home institutions have eduroam. For more information on how to set up eduroam.
EYS Award
The Elsevier Young Scientist Award will be presented at the workshop, to one or more students, for the best result(s) and talk(s) by students, subject to the following rules.
- Only students who are registered for the 2018 workshop “Index Theory and Applications to Positive Scalar Curvature and Related Areas” are eligible.
- “Student” will mean a person who is currently enrolled for studying either full-time or part-time, and may be either postgraduate or undergraduate.
- The value of award is USD 750 (to be shared if there is more than one award winner) and a certificate suitable for framing will be presented.
- The award will be awarded at the Workshop Dinner, to which the award winner will be invited as a guest.
- All student talks will be scheduled to be given prior to the Workshop Dinner so that the Award Committee can have proper discussion and also so that the award winner can be informed in good time to attend the Dinner.
- The Award Committee shall be appointed by the Elsevier Editor Mathai Varghese, who will be the chairman, after consultation with the Conference Organisers.
- This award shall be well publicised on the Workshop Webpage and Workshop advertisements.
- If, in the opinion of the Award Committee, there are no candidates of sufficient merit, then no award will be awarded.
News
- 8/6/2018: Thank you to all our speakers, sponsors and organisers for making this workshop a successful one! Click here to see all photos from the workshop.
- 7/6/2018: Congratulations to Michael Hallam on winning the Elsevier Young Scientist Award for best student talk at the workshop!
- 6/6/2018: The first photos from the conference are up. See the official workshop photo.
- 6/6/2018: The workshop dinner will take place at 6pm on Thursday June 7 at the Red Ochre Grill.
- 11/5/2018: The workshop schedule and abstracts are now available.
- 10/5/2018: The workshop poster is now available.
- 5/5 2018: Online registration is now open! If you are attending or speaking at the workshop, please proceed to the participant information page for instructions on how to register. The registration fee will go towards funding the conference dinner.
- 1/3/2018: One or more Elsevier Young Scientist Awards will be presented at the workshop to recognise the best results and talks by students. See the rules of the award.
- 1/2/2018: Please note that titles and abstracts for talks need to be submitted by April 30, 2018.
Organisers
Mathai Varghese
School of Mathematical Sciences
University of Adelaide
North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5005
Phone: (+61) 08 8313 1604
Email
Jesse Gell-Redman
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3000
Phone: (+61) 3 834 43641
Email
Diarmuid Crowley
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3000
Phone: (+61) 3 834 44712
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