Speakers
- Helge Glöckner (Paderborn)
- Karl-Heinrich Hofmann (Darmstadt)
- Johannes Hübschmann (Lille)
- Klaus Keimel (Darmstadt)
- Bernhard Krötz (Hannover)
- Jimmie Lawson (Baton Rouge)
- Alexander Schmeding (Paderborn)
- Konrad Schmüdgen (Leipzig)
- Karlheinz Spindler (Wiesbaden)
- Karl Strambach (Erlangen)
- Günter Ziegler (Berlin)
The conference poster on the right is available for download here (JPG file).
Program
The full program including the abstracts of the talks can be downloaded here (PDF file) (opens in new tab).
Friday, October 5
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Jimmie Lawson | The Unfolding Story of the Matrix Geometric Mean |
| Coffee break | ||
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Johannes Hübschmann | A step towards Lie's dream |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Karl-Heinrich Hofmann | Homogeneous spaces of compact groups |
| Lunch & Coffee | ||
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Burkhard Kümmerer | Opening of the Festkolloquium by the dean of the mathematics department at TU Darmstadt |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Klaus Keimel | Begegnungen mit Karl Heinrich Hofmann und seiner Mathematik (part of the Festkolloquium) |
| 16:45 – 17:30 | Günter Ziegler | Das ist doch keine Kunst – Mathematik-Bilder von Leonardo bis Hofmann (part of the Festkolloquium) |
The above afternoon session is also the so-called Festkolloquium on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Karl Heinrich Hofmann.
Before the Colloquium there will be a small get-together with coffee at 13:30 in room S215 244. Moreover, in the evening there is a reception and dinner at 18:30 at the “Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt” (Karolinenplatz 3).
Saturday, October 6
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Konrad Schmüdgen | Induced representations of *-algebras in Hilbert space |
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Bernhard Krötz | Ext-groups of Harish-Chandra modules |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Helge Glöckner | Regularity properties of infinite-dimensional Lie groups |
| Lunch | ||
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Karlheinz Spindler | On Theta-congruent numbers, rational squares in arithmetic progressions, concordant forms and elliptic curves |
| Coffee break | ||
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Alexander Schmeding | The Lie group structure of the diffeomorphism group of a (reduced) orbifold |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Karl Strambach | Imprimitive transformation groups with prescribed action on the blocks |
