UK-Japan Winter School

Geometric, Spectral, and Stochastic Analysis

Wood Norton Hall & Conference Centre, Evesham (near Oxford), 9-12 January 2005



PROGRAMME

Time SATURDAY, 8 JANUARY
16:00 - Registration


Time SUNDAY, 9 JANUARY
07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 Registration/Opening
10:00 - 11:00 Peter Topping (Warwick University): Ricci flow and its applications (I)
11:00 - 11:45 Coffee
11:45 - 12:45 Peter Topping (Warwick University): Ricci flow and its applications (II)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:15 - 15:15 Ulrika Magnea (University of Turin): Random matrix theory and symmetric spaces (I)
15:30 - 16:30 Karl-Theodor Sturm (University of Bonn): On the geometry of metric measure spaces (I)
16:30 - 17:15 Tea
17:15 - 17:35 Atsushi Tomoda (Keio University): Bundle gerbe Dirac operators and the splitting principle of twisted bundles
17:35 - 17:55 Alberto Ohashi (Warwick University): Fractional Brownian motion and white noise analysis
17:55 - 18:15 Yuji Hirota (Keio University): On the Poisson manifolds twisted by closed 3-form
19:00 - 20:30 Dinner (Phoenix Bar)
21:00 - 22:00 John Wood (University of Leeds): Harmonic morphisms between Riemannian manifolds


Time MONDAY, 10 JANUARY
07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 Peter Topping (Warwick University): Ricci flow and its applications (III)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:30 Karl-Theodor Sturm (University of Bonn): On the geometry of metric measure spaces (II)
11:45 - 12:45 Ulrika Magnea (University of Turin): Random matrix theory and symmetric spaces (II)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:15 - 15:15 Toshikazu Sunada (Meiji University): Elastic bodies and crystal lattices (I)
15:30 - 16:30 Yuki Suzuki (Keio University): Asymptotic behavior of a diffusion process with a one-sided Brownian potential
16:30 - 17:15 Tea
17:15 - 17:35 Kazumasa Kuwada (Kyoto University): Laplace approximation for stochastic line integrals
17:35 - 17:55 Tom Christiansen (University of Bonn): Martingales in Riemannian buildings and metric spaces
17:55 - 18:15 Hiroshi Takahashi (Keio University): Recurrent of a multi-dimensional diffusion process in a Brownian environment
19:00 Dinner (Le Duc's Restaurant)


Time TUESDAY, 11 JANUARY
07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 Toshikazu Sunada (Meiji University): Elastic bodies and crystal lattices (II)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:30 Neil O'Connell (University College Cork): Some path-transformations related to Brownian motion, random matrices and representation theory
11:45 - 12:45 Satoshi Ishiwata (Tsukuba University): Laplacians on uniformly distributed nets and asymptotics of heat semigroups on nilpotent covering manifolds
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:15 - 15:15 Alessio Corti (University of Cambridge): Fano 3-folds and modular forms
15:30 - 16:30 Keisuke Hara (Ritsumeikan University): Quadratic Wiener functionals revisited
16:30 - 17:15 Tea
17:15 - 18:15 Motoko Kotani (Tohoku University): Magnetic transition operators on a crystal lattice
19:00 Dinner (Le Duc's Restaurant; booked only for guests in non-ensuite rooms)


Time WEDNESDAY, 12 JANUARY
07:30 - 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 - 10:00 Tatsuya Tate (Nagoya University): Asymptotic behavior of multiplicities of weights in high tensor power
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
10:30 - 11:30 Sylvie Paycha (University Blaise Pascal): Conformal invariants built from regularized traces and Wodzicki residues
11:45 - 12:45 Zhongmin Qian (University of Oxford): Ricci flow on a 3-manifold with positive scalar curvature




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Last update: 13 January 2005