UK-JAPAN MATHEMATICAL FORUM
on Geometry, Probability, and their Applications

Keio University, 15-20 July 2012



PROGRAMME

The lectures will take place in the symposium area on the ground floor of the Raiosha Building on Hiyoshi Campus. For speakers: Data projector, laptop, visualizer, and a small whiteboard will be available in the lecture room.

Time SUNDAY, 15 JULY
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 10:30 Jürgen Berndt (King's College London): Polar actions on symmetric spaces
11:00 - 12:00 Mario Micallef (Warwick): Minimal hypersurfaces in manifolds with a lower bound on scalar curvature
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Alexander Veselov (Loughborough): Topology and Integrability (I)
15:30 - 15:50 Graham Kemp (Loughborough): Dirac magnetic monopoles, coadjoint orbits and geometric quantization
15:50 - 16:10 Kotaro Kawai (Tohoku): G2-manifolds and calibrated submanifolds
16:10 - 16:30 Satoshi Ueki (Tohoku): Integral geometry and its applications
16:45 - 17:45 Mark Haskins (Imperial College London): The geometry and topology of compact G2-manifolds (I)
MONDAY, 16 JULY
9:30 - 10:30 John Bolton (Durham): Almost complex curves in the product of two 3-spheres
11:00 - 12:00 Mario Micallef (Warwick): Minimal surfaces of high codimension
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Alexander Veselov (Loughborough): Topology and Integrability (II)
15:30 - 16:30 Ryushi Goto (Osaka): Logarithmic Poisson structures and generalized geometry
16:45 - 17:45 Mark Haskins (Imperial College London): The geometry and topology of compact G2-manifolds (II)
TUESDAY, 17 JULY
9:30 - 10:30 Dominic Joyce (Oxford): D-manifolds and d-orbifolds: a theory of derived differential geometry (I)
11:00 - 12:00 Mario Micallef (Warwick): Approximation of harmonic maps by alpha-harmonic maps
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Alexander Veselov (Loughborough): Topology and Integrability (III)
15:30 - 15:50 Jack Waldron (Oxford): Formality of Fukaya categories
15:50 - 16:10 Takayuki Moriyama (Kyoto): Special Legendrian submanifolds in toric Sasaki-Einstein manifolds
16:10 - 16:30 Vlad Moraru (Warwick): Area minimising surfaces and splitting of 3-manifolds with lower bounds on scalar curvature
16:45 - 17:45 Reiko Miyaoka (Tohoku): Hypersurface geometry and moment map
WEDNESDAY, 18 JULY
9:30 - 10:30 Dominic Joyce (Oxford): D-manifolds and d-orbifolds: a theory of derived differential geometry (II)
10:45 - 11:05 Benjamin Volk (Oxford): Almost complex d-manifolds and unitary d-bordism
11:15 - 12:15 Martin Hairer (Warwick): Rough stochastic PDEs (I)
THURSDAY, 19 JULY
9:30 - 10:30 Dominic Joyce (Oxford): D-manifolds and d-orbifolds: a theory of derived differential geometry (III)
11:00 - 12:00 Martin Hairer (Warwick): Rough stochastic PDEs (II)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Chris Budd (Bath): Geometry based numerical methods for weather forecasting
15:30 - 15:50 Karin Mora (Bath): Dynamics of a spinning disk impacting with friction
15:50 - 16:10 Ryoichi Suzuki (Keio): A Clark-Ocone type formula under change of measure for canonical Lévy processes
16:10 - 16:30 Yang Yuxin (Bristol): The vanishing of L2 harmonic one-forms on based path spaces
16:45 - 17:45 Kazumasa Kuwada (Ochanomizu): Optimal transportation costs of heat distributions in stochastic geometric analysis
from 18:00 Reception at Hiyoshi Faculty Lounge
FRIDAY, 20 JULY
9:30 - 10:30 Tadashi Tokieda (Cambridge): A different way of perturbing dynamical systems
11:00 - 12:00 Martin Hairer (Warwick): Rough stochastic PDEs (III)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Chris Budd and Karin Mora (Bath): Some interesting mathematical problems arising in industry
15:30 - 16:30 Xue-Mei Li (Warwick): Convergence of stochastic processes and collapsing of manifolds
16:45 - 17:45 David Elworthy (Warwick): The expected number of fixed points of stochastic flows and Kusuoka's McKean-Singer formula



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