Conference

TOPICS IN NEGATIVE CURVATURE

Programme

The lectures take place in the Collegiate Building, Lecture Hall 120, of the University of Basel, Petersplatz 1 (see map)


Monday, August 4

11:00 - 12:00 Peter BUSER (EPF Lausanne) :Löbell manifolds and trigonometry
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 Ernest VINBERG (Moscow) : Non-arithmetic hyperbolic reflection groups in higher dimensions
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Pavel TUMARKIN (Durham) : Coxeter groups, quiver mutations and hyperbolic manifolds
18:00 -Apéro and afterwards Conference Dinner
in the Villa Wildt'sches Haus and afterwards (around 20:00 pm) in the Restaurant Schützenhaus

Tuesday, August 5

09:30 - 10:30 Christophe BAVARD (Bordeaux)Symmetric spaces and euclidean packing theory
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 John RATCLIFFE (Vanderbilt) Right-angled Coxeter polytopes, hyperbolic 6-manifolds, and a problem of Siegel
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 Karsten GROVE (Notre Dame) : Reflection groups in non-negative curvature
16:15 - Garden Party chez les Im Hof


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