Informal Analysis Seminar

Description: This is an informal seminar on various topics of interest to our Analysis Group. Some of the talks will be about classical things and are intended to provide background. Sometimes we run a reading seminar on topics we are interested in. Anyone is welcome to attend. If no room or time is noted please contact me to find out the details. Notice that we also have another Analysis seminar, the Geometric Analysis Seminar.

Spring 2020: Reading seminar around Higher Rank Hyperbolicity, after B. Kleiner and U. Lang

  • 05/03 at 13:15: Background on CAT(0) spaces (Hubert Sidler)
  • 12/03 at 13:15: Background on Gromov hyperbolic spaces (Martin Fitzi)
  • 19/03 at 13:15: Currents in metric spaces (Roger Zuest)
  • 26/03 at 13:15: ...
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  • 30/04 at 13:15: ...
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  • Spring 2019: Reading seminar around the biLipschitz parametrization problem for metric spaces

  • 15/01 at 13:15: Organizational meeting
  • 22/01 at 10:15: The Laakso plane (Hubert Sidler)
  • 29/01 at 10:15: A and A1 weights and biLipschitz embeddings into Rn (Katrin Faessler)
  • 05/02 at 15:15: Bishop's example of an A1-weighted plane not biLip to R2, part 1 (Stefan Wenger)
  • 12/02 at 13:15: Bishop's example of an A1-weighted plane not biLip to R2, part 2 (Stefan Wenger)
  • 26/02 at 15:15: Antoine's necklace (Corina Ciobotaru)
  • 12/03 at 15:15: Semmes' example of A weighted R3 not biLip to R3 (Teri Soultanis)
  • 19/03 at 15:15: Semmes' example of A weighted R3 not biLip to R3 (Teri Soultanis)
  • 02/04 at 15:15: Background on Sobolev functions on metric measure spaces, part 1 (Kevin Wildrick)
  • 09/04 at 15:15: Sobolev functions on metric measure spaces, part 2 (Kevin Wildrick)
  • 16/04 at 15:15: Flat forms, flat chains and Wolfe's theorem, part 1 (Martin Fitzi)
  • 03/05 at 15:15: Flat forms, flat chains and Wolfe's theorem, part 2 (Teri Soultanis)
  • 07/05 at 15:15: Alexander-Spanier cohomology, part 1 (Patrick Ghanaat)
  • 14/05 at 15:15: Alexander-Spanier cohomology, part 2 (Patrick Ghanaat)
  • 28/05 at 14:15: Heinonen-Rickman's paper, part 1 (Roger Zuest)
  • 11/06 at 15:15: Heinonen-Rickman's paper, part 2 (Roger Zuest) -- exceptionally, we meet in Bern
  • 25/06 at 15:15: Heinonen-Rickman's paper, part 3 (Teri Soultanis)
  • 16/08 at 10:15: Heinonen-Sullivan's paper, part 1 (Hubert Sidler)
  • 22/08 at 10:15: Heinonen-Sullivan's paper, part 2 (Hubert Sidler)


  • Spring 2018:

  • 18/01: Organizational meeting and first talk
  • 18/01: Classical uniformization theorem and relatives I (Patrick Ghanaat)
  • 25/01: Classical uniformization theorem and relatives II (Patrick Ghanaat)
  • 01/02: Sets with big pieces of Lipschitz graphs (Katrin Faessler)
  • 08/02: The measurable Riemann mapping theorem (Changyu Guo)
  • 15/02: Metric differentiability of Lipschitz maps (Hernando Sobrino)
  • 20/02: Spaces with a geodesic bicombing and the asymptotic rank I (Corina Ciobotaru)
  • 27/02: Newton-Sobolev maps (Kevin Wildrick)
  • 06/03: Spaces with a geodesic bicombing and the asymptotic rank II (Corina Ciobotaru)
  • 03/04: Plateau's problem for discs in metric spaces - existence (Martin Fitzi)
  • 29/05: Plateau-Douglas problem in metric spaces (Martin Fitzi)