Archive for September, 2009

7th October 2009, 1600 MC206

Professor Werner Ballman

from

The Max-Planck-Institute and the University of Bonn

will speak on

Some Remarks on Harmonic Spaces

By definition, a Riemannian manifold M is called harmonic, if each point p∈M has a neigborhood U such that there is a non-constant harmonic function on U\p. Euclidean spaces and, more generally, two-point homogeneous spaces are harmonic. Conversely, the so-called Lichnerowicz conjecture states that any complete and simply connected harmonic manifold is two-point homogeneous. This was proved by Szabó in the compact case, in the non-compact case, Damek and Ricci found counterexamples. I will discuss the compact case.

The Departments of Mathematics and Physics is organising a summer school on Integral Geometry and Imaging in November. The line up of lecturers is world class, and we expect the exciting schedule of lectures to be of particular interest to mathematicians, physicists, statisticians, computers scientists. Everybody is welcome to participate! Please send us an email if you wish to participate.

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