New Methods in Finsler Geometry

21 May 2018 - 25 May 2018

Timetable

Date	Time	Speaker	Room
Mon 21 May	8:30- 8:50	Registration	Aula Dini
	8:50- 9:00	Opening	Aula Dini
	9:10- 10:00	Ivanov, Sergei "Intrinsic versus extrinsic geometry of Finsler surfaces"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:40	Coffee break
	10:40- 11:30	Troyanov, Marc "A cardboard model for SOL geometry"	Aula Dini
	11:40- 12:10	Ootsuka, Takayoshi "Applications of a Finsler non-linear connection"	Aula Dini
	12:20- 14:00	Lunch
	14:10- 15:00	Nikolayevsky, Yuri A. "Locally conformally Berwald manifolds and compact quotients of reducible manifolds by homotheties"	Aula Dini
	15:00- 15:40	Coffee break
	15:40- 16:30	Rademacher, Hans-Bert "Bumpy metrics, closed geodesics, and minimal index growth"	Aula Dini
	16:40- 18:00	Welcome reception and poster session	Corridoio I Piano
Tue 22 May	9:10- 10:00	Bryant, Robert "Finsler metrics with constant positive flag curvature and holonomy"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:40	Coffee break
	10:40- 11:30	Mo, Xiaohuan "On Finsler surfaces of constant flag curvature"	Aula Dini
	11:40- 12:10	Mettler, Thomas "Weyl-Zoll structures and Finsler 2-spheres of constant positive curvature"	Aula Dini
	12:20- 14:00	Lunch
	14:10- 15:20	Parallel sessions
	14:11- 14:40	Minguzzi, Ettore "Relativity theory and modified indicatrices (First parallel session on Finsler Geometry and General Relativity)"	Aula Dini
	14:11- 14:40	Mazzucchelli, Marco "Minimal Boundaries in Tonelli Lagrangian Systems (Parallel session on Symplectic Geometry Methods in Finsler Geometry)"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	14:50- 15:20	Pfeifer, Christian "Finsler spacetimes (First parallel session on Finsler Geometry and General Relativity)"	Aula Dini
	14:50- 15:20	Schmaeschke, Felix "Closed magnetic geodesics on orbifolds (Parallel session on Symplectic Geometry Methods in Finsler Geometry)"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	15:20- 16:10	Coffee break
	16:10- 18:30	Parallel sessions
	16:11- 16:30	Caponio, Erasmo "Finsler spacetimes and Killing vectors field (Second parallel session on Finsler Geometry and General Relativity)"	Aula Dini
	16:11- 16:30	Wolack, Robert "Foliations on Finsler manifolds (Parallel Session on Local Finsler Geometry)"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	16:40- 17:00	Yahagi, Ryoko "Construction of supergravity from a superparticle Lagrangian (Second parallel session on Finsler Geometry and General Relativity)"	Aula Dini
	16:40- 17:00	Rezaei, Bahaman "On isotropic Projective Ricci curvature of special Finsler metrics (Parallel Session on Local Finsler Geometry)"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	17:10- 17:30	Sämann, Clemens "Lorentzian length spaces and its application to Lorentz-Finsler structures (Second parallel session on Finsler Geometry and General Relativity)"	Aula Dini
	17:10- 17:30	Tadano, Homare "A Cheeger-Gromov-Taylor Type Compactness Theorem for Finsler (Parallel Session on Local Finsler Geometry)"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	17:40- 18:00	Narasimha, Senajii "Murthy Einstein theory of Finsler-Randers cosmological model (Second parallel session on Finsler Geometry and General Relativity)"	Aula Dini
	17:40- 18:00	Tiwari, Bankteshwar "On spherically symmetric Finsler metrics with special curvature properties (Parallel Session on Local Finsler Geometry)"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
	18:10- 18:30	Makhmali, Omid "Causal structures and related geometries (Second parallel session on Finsler Geometry and General Relativity)"	Aula Dini
	18:10- 18:30	Lang, Julius "Finsler metrics with 3-dimensional projective symmetry algebra in dimension 2 (Parallel Session on Local Finsler Geometry)"	Sala Conferenze Centro De Giorgi
Wed 23 May	9:10- 10:00	Artstein-Avidan, Shiri "Duality for Convex Caustics"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:40	Coffee break
	10:40- 11:30	Spiro, Andrea "Finsler metrics of complex domains with Monge-Ampere exhaustions"	Aula Dini
	11:40- 12:30	Bharali, Gautam "A notion of visibility based on the Kobayashi distance, and applications"	Aula Dini
	12:20- 14:00	Lunch
	14:00- None	Free time
Thu 24 May	9:10- 10:00	Kapovich, Misha "Finsler geometry of Riemannian symmetric spaces"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:40	Coffee break
	10:40- 11:30	Balacheff, Florent "Length product of homologically independent closed geodesics"	Aula Dini
	11:40- 12:10	Lytchak, Alexander "Busemann convex Finsler manifolds"	Aula Dini
	12:20- 14:00	Lunch
	14:10- 15:00	Muzsnay, Zoltan "On the holonomy of Finsler manifolds"	Aula Dini
	15:00- 15:40	Coffee break
	15:40- 16:30	Xu, Ming "Homogeneous Finsler spaces with positive flag curvature, classificastion and related topics"	Aula Dini
	16:40- 17:20	Marugame, Taiji "Chains in CR geometry as geodesics of a Kropina metric"	Aula Dini
	17:30- 18:00	Future of the conference	Aula Dini
	20:00- 22:00	Banquet
Fri 25 May	9:10- 10:00	Salomao, Pedro "Sharp systolic inequalities for spheres of revolution"	Aula Dini
	10:00- 10:40	Coffee break
	10:40- 11:30	Burago, Dimitri "Three mini-talks on Finsler Geometry and beyond"	Aula Dini
	11:30- 11:40	Closing	Aula Dini