Previous Conferences & Workshops

In the 80s Pitts-Rubinstein conjectured that certain kinds of Heegaard surfaces in three-manifolds can be isotoped to index 1 minimal surfaces. I’ll describe in detail a proof of their conjecture and some applications. This is joint work with...

We consider the classical problem of prescribing the scalar curvature of a manifold via conformal deformation of the metric, dating back to works by Kazdan and Warner. This problem is mainly understood in low dimensions, where blow-ups of solutions...

Tensors occur throughout mathematics. Their rank, defined in analogy with matrix rank, is however much more poorly understood, both from a structural and algorithmic viewpoints.

This will be an introductory talk to some of the basic issues...