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Thematic Program on Geometric Analysis
July-December 2017 • Fields Institute
The Fields Institute Thematic Program on
Geometric Analysis included many exciting
events from July to December 2017, such as
the Distinguished Lecture Series of Panagiota
Daskalopoulos (Columbia University) in
October and the Coxeter Lecture Series
of Tobias Colding (MIT) in November.
Panagiota Daskalopoulos
(Columbia University)
The Summer School (July 10–21) kicked off the
thematic
"The fact that talks were
program with a
coupled with problem sessions that
two-week event
both strengthened understanding
of the talks and helped facilitate
for graduate
collaboration with students from other
students and
countries was definitely a highlight of
postdoctoral
the event."
—Participant
at Summer School on
fellows.
Geometric Analysis
A special
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feature of the summer school was the daily
three-hour problem solving session. The
lecturers designed well-selected problem
sets to accompany their lecture series. The
participants appreciated the problem-solving
sessions; many said that the summer school
was one of the most intense and fruitful
learning experiences of their careers.
The Workshop on G2-Manifolds and Related
Topics was held on August 21–25, with an
associated mini-school immediately
prior (August 19 and 20), which served
to familiarize graduate students and
other researchers with this active
and rapidly growing field.
On the first evening of the
workshop, the Fields Institute
hosted a special public lecture
by Jason Lotay (University
College London), which was
extremely well‑attended.
The Workshop on General
Relativity and the ADS/CFT
in late October achieved what few
meetings of its kind achieve by covering
a spectrum of research directions that
rarely appear together in a workshop.
It included a broad swathe of researchers which