Japanese


Variational Problems in Geometry

celebrating

Professor Seiki Nishikawa's 60th birthday


September 18-20, 2007

Sendai, Japan


Venue : Sendai International Center

Program : The program starts at 10am, September 18th. Here is a link to the abstracts
A party is planned for celebrating Professor Seiki Nishikawa's 60th birthday on the 20th of September.

Lectures will include :
Jean Pierre Bourguignon (IHES)
  The Geometry of Conformally Covariant Differential Operators
Sorin Dragomir (Universita della Basilicata)
  The Graham-Lee connection and C regularity up to the boundary of Bergman-harmonic maps
Akito Futaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  Complete Ricci-flat Kähler metrics on the canonical bundles of toric Fano manifolds
Osamu Kobayashi (Kumamoto University)
  Ricci curvature of affine connections
Eric Loubeau (University of Brest)
  Biharmonic maps: overview of a new variational problem
Mario Micallef (University of Warwick)
  Harmonic maps between complete, noncompact negatively curved manifolds
Shin Nayatani (Nagoya University)
  Fixed-point property of discrete groups via harmonic maps
Richard Schoen (Stanford University)
  New phenomena for the high dimensional Yamabe problem
Atsushi Tachikawa (Tokyo University of Science)
  Partial regularity of harmonic maps into Finsler spaces
Tom Y. H. Wan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Quasi-decomposition of algebraic hypersurfaces into Calabi-Yau’s manifolds (tentative)
[Jiaping Wang (University of Minnesota)  
  Spectrum and topology of complete manifolds]   CANCELLED


Organizing Committee :
Kazuo Akutagawa (Tokyo University of Science)
Hiroyuki Kamada (Miyagi University of Education)
Keisuke Ueno (Yamagata University)
Hiroyasu Izeki (Tohoku Univeristy)
Sumio Yamada (Tohoku Univeristy)
Hitoshi Furuhata (Hokkaido University)
Tetsuya Taniguchi (Kitasato University)
Daishi Watabe (Saitama Institute of Technology)

Contact : ueno@sci.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp



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