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 .
Program
The full program including the abstracts of the talks can be downloaded here (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 |
