Geometry and Probability

September 5(Mon) – 7(Wed), 2005

with Professor Sturm's lectures from September 8(Thu) – 9(Fri), 2005

Place:
Kawai Hall, Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Access

Program:

Sept. 5(Mon)
  11:30 - 12:30 Masayoshi Takeda (Tohoku U)
    Gaussian bounds of heat kernels for Schr\"odinger operators
    on Riemannian manifolds
  14:40 - 15:40 Tom Christiansen (U Bonn)
    Expectations and martingales in metric spaces
  16:00 - 17:00 Yukio Otsu (Kyushu U)
    On thermodynamic functions of harmonic oscillators of Alexandrov space
Sept. 6(Tus)
  10:20 - 11:20 Junya Takahashi (Tohoku U)
    Collapsing, surgery and the first eigenvalues of the Laplacian on p-forms
  11:30 - 12:30 Zhongmin Qian (U Oxford)
    1-dimensional models and the comparison theorem for Laplacians
  14:40 - 15:40 Shin-ichi Ohta (Kyoto U)
    On measure contraction property of metric measure spaces
  16:00 - 17:00 Masayoshi Watanabe (Tohoku U)
    Collapsed spaces with Ricci curvature bounded below
  Party
Sept. 7(Wed)
  10:20 - 11:20 Atsushi Atsuji (Keio U)
    Nevanlinna theory based on heat kernels
  11:30 - 12:30 Karl-Theodor Sturm (U Bonn)
    Mass Transportation and the Geometry of Metric Measure Spaces
  14:40 - 15:40 Max-Konstantin von Renesse (TU Berlin)
    On local Poincar\'e via transportation
  16:00 - 17:00 Shigeki Aida (Osaka U)
    Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and
    semi-classical analysis on pinned path groups

We have Professor Sturm's lectures in the following schedule:

Sept. 8(Thu), 14:00 - 17:00 Karl-Theodor Sturm (U Bonn)
  Ricci Bounds and Curvature-Dimension Conditions for Metric Measure Spaces. I
Sept. 9(Fri), 14:00 - 17:00 Karl-Theodor Sturm (U Bonn)
  Ricci Bounds and Curvature-Dimension Conditions for Metric Measure Spaces. II

Organizers:
Kazuhiro Kuwae (Kumamoto U), Yukio Ogura (Saga U), Shin-ichi Ohta (Kyoto U), Takashi Shioya (Tohoku U)

Contact:
Please email to Takashi Shioya (shioya at math.tohoku.ac.jp).

Financially supported by:
Setsuo Taniguchi (Kyushu U), Takao Yamaguchi(Tsukuba U), Takashi Shioya (Tohoku U)


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