Monday, February 26 |
07:00 - 09:00 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Xianghu Lake National Tourist Resort (Dining Hall - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店餐厅)) |
09:30 - 09:35 |
Introduction and Welcome ↓ A brief introduction with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions. (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅)) |
09:35 - 10:35 |
Yuguang Shi: Non-compact manifolds with positive scalar curvature ↓ The talk consists of two parts. In the first part of the talk, I will discuss a kind of open manifolds carries no complete positive scalar curvature metric, and in the second part of the talk, I will discuss Llarull type theorems on complete manifolds with positive scalar curvature. The talk based on my recent joint works with T.Hao, Y.Sun, R.Wu, J.Wang and J.Zhu. (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅)) |
10:35 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break (Academic island(定山院士岛)) |
11:00 - 12:00 |
Luciano Mari: On Bernstein type theorems for minimal graphs under Ricci lower bounds ↓ In this talk, we study solutions to the minimal hypersurface equation
div(Du√1+|Du|2)=0
defined on a complete Riemannian manifold M. The qualitative properties of such solutions are influenced by the geometry of M, and one may expect results similar to those holding in Euclidean space provided that M has non-negative sectional or Ricci curvature. We focus on Ric≥0, a case for which the analysis is subtler, especially because the lack of uniform ellipticity of the mean curvature operator makes comparison theory difficult to use. I will survey on recent splitting, Liouville and and half-space theorems obtained by the author in collaboration with G. Colombo, E.S. Gama, M. Magliaro and M. Rigoli. Techniques range from heat equation to potential theoretic arguments. (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅)) |
12:00 - 13:15 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Xianghu Lake National Tourist Resort (Dining Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛餐厅)) |
13:15 - 14:15 |
Luca Benatti: The nonlinear potential theory through the looking-glass and the Penrose inequality we found there ↓ The Riemannian Penrose inequality affirms that the total mass of a gravitational system is at least the mass of the black hole inside it. In their 2001 paper, Huisken and Ilmanen proved the validity of this inequality using the monotonicity of the Hawking mass along the weak inverse mean curvature flow. In this talk, I will present an overview of a different approach which draws inspiration from the recent result by Agostiniani, Mantegazza, Mazzieri and Oronzio. The monotonicity of the Hawking mass turns out to be the mirrored image of a whole family of monotone quantities in nonlinear potential theory: they both reflect some information of each other while maintaining their specific properties. Going through the looking-glass, this family express its full potential and permits extending the validity of the Riemannian Penrose inequality in a more general setting.
This talk is based on a series of works in collaboration with M. Fogagnolo (University of Padua), L. Mazzieri (University of Trento), A. Pluda (University of Pisa) and M. Pozzetta (University of Naples). (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅)) |
14:15 - 15:15 |
Sven Hirsch: Rigidity and stability results involving scalar curvature ↓ We present several new stability and rigidity results for scalar curvature. In particular, we prove stability of Llarull's theorem in all dimensions using spin geometry. Additionally, we discuss some related questions which are motivated by General Relativity. This is based upon joined work with Yiyue Zhang. (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅)) |
15:15 - 15:45 |
Coffee Break (Academic island(定山院士岛)) |
15:45 - 16:45 |
Stefano Borghini: Comparison geometry for substatic manifolds ↓ Substatic manifolds arise naturally in General Relativity as spatial slices of static spacetimes satisfying the Null Energy Condition. We will show that the substatic condition captures a large class of interesting model solutions and we will discuss its connection with the Bakry-Émery Ricci tensor. This will allow us to perform some known and new comparison arguments, leading to a Bishop-Gromov monotonicity, a splitting theorem and an isoperimetric inequality for substatic manifolds. Time permitting, we will also discuss an Heintze-Karcher inequality in this setting and how it can be exploited to improve on Brendle’s characterization of CMC hypersurfaces in substatic warped products. This talk is based on joint works with Mattia Fogagnolo and Andrea Pinamonti. (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅)) |
16:45 - 17:45 |
Kai Xu: Drawstrings and scalar curvature in dimension three ↓ We introduce a new class of examples called drawstring, which provides further understanding on the geometry of scalar curvature in dimension three. Roughly speaking, drawstrings allow us to arbitrarily decrease the length of a curve by altering the metric near the curve in the way that only decrease the scalar curvature slightly. We will discuss the relation between drawstring and various other results and problems, including the stability problems in scalar curvature. We will also discuss the construction of drawstrings and some related thoughts. This talk is based on my joint work with Demetre Kazaras. (Lecture Hall - Academic island(定山院士岛报告厅)) |
18:00 - 20:00 |
Dinner (Dining Hall - Yuxianghu Hotel(御湘湖酒店餐厅)) |