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25th South German Colloquium on Differential Geometry

25. Süddeutsches Differentialgeometrie-Kolloquium

• Proceedings

June 2nd, 2000

Research Colloquia

• Dieter Betten, Department of Mathematics, University of Kiel, Germany.
  Topologische Geometrien: Erzeugung und Isomorphie
  March 14th, 2001
• Victor Pambuccian, Department of Integrative Sciences, Arizona State University, USA.
  Fragmente der ebenen euklidischen und hyperbolischen Geometrie
  June 21st, 2001

Colloquium on the Occasion of the 60th Birthday of Prof. Dr. Hellmuth Stachel

• M. Husty, Laudatio
• J. Richter-Gebert, Das komplexe Verhalten geometrischer Objekte
• K. Suzuki, The activities of Japan Society for Graphic Science
• O. Röschel, Zusammensetzung von Bewegungsvorgängen und die Erzeugung übergeschlossener Mechanismen
• I. Kh. Sabitov, Solution of polyhedra
• E. Molnár, Das Hyperboloid-Modell der SL(2,R)-Geometrie mit Konstruktionen von unendlichen Serien von Raumformen
• V. Alexandrov, Alexandrov-type and Minkowski-type theorems for polyhedral herissons

October 18th, 2002

Research Colloquia

• Larysa Ivanova, Department of Descriptive Geometry, Engineering and Computer Graphics, Kiev National University of Construction and Architecture, Ukraine.
  The discrete geometry concept on the base of a numerical method
  December 10th, 2002

Research Colloquia

• Mark Pankov, Department of Mathematics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine.
  Automorphisms of Tits buildings of type A_n
  October 30th, 2003
• Ralph-Hardo Schulz, Department of Mathematics, Free University of Berlin, Germany.
  Translationsgruppen bei Designs und ihren Codes
  December 5th, 2003

Research Colloquia

• Leo Storme, Department of Mathematics and Computer Algebra, University of Ghent, Belgium.
  Linear codes meeting the Griesmer bound and minihypers in finite projective spaces
  November 10th, 2004

1st International Conference on Design Engineering and Science

Organiser: The Japan Society for Design Engineering.
Co-Organiser: Hellmuth Stachel, Vienna University of Technology.

• Website of this conference

October 28th - October 31st, 2005

Research Colloquia

• Anna Soos, Department of Mathematics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Rumania.
  Two scale convergence on fractals
  April 14th, 2005
• David Dooner, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, USA.
  On the three laws of gearing
  June 9th, 2005
• Corrado Zanella, Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Italy.
  Blocking sets in Graßmann-Räumen
  June 9th, 2005
• Peter Hilton, Binghamton University, NY, U.S.A.
  Variations on a theorem of Schur
  June 16th, 2005
• Jenő Szirmai, Department of Geometry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
  Optimale Kugel-, Parasphären- und Hypersphärenpackungen der Coxeter Pflasterungen im n-dimensionalen hyperbolischen Raum
  June 23rd, 2005
• Gunter Weiß, Institute of Geometry, Dresden University of Technology, Germany.
  Konstruktive Geometrie zwischen PISA und Bologna - Bemerkungen zur Geometriesituation in Dresden
  December 1st, 2005
• Victor Batyrev, Institute of Mathematics, University of Tübingen, Germany.
  Lattice polytopes with a given h-polynomial
  December 5th, 2005

Rigidity and Flexibility

The International Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics (ESI Vienna, Austria) supported this meeting.

Workshop 1: Flexibility of Polyhedra and Frameworks

Workshop 2: Herissons and Virtual Polytopes

• Website of this conference

April 23rd to May 6th, 2006

Research Colloquia

• Georg Stamou, Department of Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
  Relativgeometrische Behandlung gewisser Flächenklassen
  May 24th, 2006
• Attila Bölcskei, Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary.
  Über die Klassifikation und Realisierung homogener Dreieckspflasterungen
  June 22nd, 2006
• Hans Havlicek, Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
  Jenseits der pentazyklischen Koordinaten
  October 19th, 2006

Research Colloquia

• Idzhad Kh. Sabitov, Institute of Mathematics, Moscow State University, Russia.
  Solutions of polyhedra
  April 26th, 2007
• Andrea Blunck, Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, Germany.
  Eine geometrische Beschreibung verallgemeinerter Clifford-Parallelismen
  May 31st, 2007
• Jenő Szirmai, Department of Geometry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
  Über die Nil-Geometrie
  June 21st, 2007
• Ciprian S. Borcea, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA.
  Point configurations, linkages and Cayley-Menger varieties
  August 2nd, 2007
• Ileana Streinu, Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA.
  Pseudo-triangulations, rigidity for the study of linkages
  August 2nd, 2007

Defensiones

• Georg Nawratil, Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
  Neue kinematische Performance Inidizes für 6R Roboter und Stewart Gough Plattformen (Doctoral thesis)
  March 23rd, 2007
  Slides (PDF)
• Boris Odehnal, Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
  Linienelemente und Flaggen (Habilitation thesis)
  November 19th, 2007.

33th South German Colloquium on Differential Geometry

33. Süddeutsches Differentialgeometrie-Kolloquium

• Visit the web pages of the colloquium (in German).

May 23rd and May 24th, 2008

Research Colloquia

• Metod Saniga, Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia.
  The (amazing) architecture of finite projective ring lines
  March 12th, 2008
• Attila Bölcskei, Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture, Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary.
  Applications of color groups
  June 13th, 2008
• Idzhad Kh. Sabitov, Institute of Mathematics, Moscow State University, Russia.
  On combinatorially and algorithmically p-parametric polyhedra
  June 13th, 2008
• Aura Conci, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  Teaching graphics in the UAB (Universidade Aberta do Brasil)
  June 23rd, 2008
• Emil Molnár, Department of Geometry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
  Higher-dimensional central projection into the projective sphere
  July 31st, 2008
• Paul Zsombor-Murray, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
  A unified approach to direct kinematics of some reduced motion parallel manipulators
  December 4th, 2008

Continuing Education for Teachers

• Hans Havlicek, Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
  Gekrümmte Erdkugel - Flache Landkarte. Geometrie und Kartenentwürfe
  March 5th, 2008
  Organised by Pädagogische Hochschule Wien

Minicolloquium on Geometry

• István Prok, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
  Constructing Archimedean polytopes
• Brigitta Szilágyi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, and Attila Bölcskei, Ybl Miklós Faculty of Szent István University, Budapest, Hungary.
  On visualization of homogeneous geometries
• Jenő Szirmai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
  Lattice-like ball packings in sol space

January 20th, 2009

Finite Projective Ring Geometries:

An Intriguing Emerging Link Between Quantum Information Theory, Black-Hole Physics, and Chemistry of Coupling

Cooperation group at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld (Germany).

Date

August 1st, 2009 to October 31st, 2009.

Organisers

Principal Organiser: Hans Havlicek, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
Co-Organiser: Metod Saniga, Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia

Further Information

• ZiF Cooperation Group 2009

Colloquium on Geometry

• Hans-Peter Schröcker, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
  Contributions to four-positions theory with relative rotations
• Victor Alexandrov, Novosibirsk State University and Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russia.
  New manifestations of the Darboux's rotation and translation fields of a surface

November 13th, 2009

Differential Geometry Candidate Lectures

• Roger Bielawski, University of Leeds, UK.
  Die Geometrie der magnetischen Monopole
• Andreas Bernig, University of Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland.
  Krümmungen singulärer Räume
• Alexander Bobenko, Berlin University of Technology, Germany.
  Flächen aus Kreisen

Research Colloquia

• Ákos G. Horváth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
  Semi-indefinite-inner-product and generalized Minkowski spaces
  February 28th, 2009
• Manuela Nechita, 'Dunărea de Jos' University, Galaţi, Romania.
  Engineering graphics education at the 'Dunărea de Jos' University of Galaţi
  May 14th, 2009
• Andrzej Matraś, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland.
  Two and three-transitive permutation sets
  May 14th, 2009
• Georgios Stamou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
  Eine relativgeometrische Behandlung von Regelflächen
  June 4th, 2009
• Alexander A. Lashkhi, Georgian Technical University Tbilisi and Batumi State University, Georgia.
  Geometry of classical groups over rings
  November 30th, 2009

Presentations

• Presentations of Bachelor's Theses
  June 23, 2009
• Presentations of Bachelor's Theses
  November 9th, 2009

Research Colloquia

• Đorđe Zloković, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia.
  The group supermatrix procedure in mechanics and finite element analysis
  April 28th, 2010
• Miroslav Lávička, Department of Mathematics, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic.
  Hermite interpolation by hypocycloids and epicycloids with rational offsets
  May 12th, 2010
• Jenő Szirmai, Department of Geometry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
  Neue optimale Parasphärenpackungen im hyperbolischen Raum
  June 10th, 2010
• Yasuo Matsushita, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
  Survey on the existence of neutral metrics on four-manifolds and spinor approach to neutral geometry
  September 20th, 2010
• Anton Hirsch, University of Kassel, Germany.
  Komplexe Geometrie - darstellend und analytisch
  October 8th, 2010
• Alexander Dvoretsky, National Academy of Nature Protection and Resort Construction Simferopol, Ukraine.
  Reflection and its applications
  December 17th, 2010

Presentations

• Presentations of Bachelor's Theses
  January 25th, 2010
• Presentation of Bachelor's Thesis
  March 8th, 2010

Special Colloquium Celebrating the Retirement of
Professor Mag. Dr. Dr.h.c. Hellmuth Stachel

• Opening
• Hans-Peter Schröcker, Unit for Geometry and CAD, University of Innsbruck, Austria
  Devil in paradise or how to factor a rational motion

• Otto Röschel, Institute of Geometry, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  Movable polyhedral chains

• Idzhad Kh. Sabitov, Institute of Mathematics, Moscow State University, Russia
  Some new classes of rigid polyhedra and their volume polynomials

Invitation and Programme (PDF, in German)

November 4th, 2011

Research Colloquia

• Alexander Guterman, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow State University, Russia
  Tropical linear algebra and its applications
  May 23rd, 2011
• Giorgio Figliolini, Department of Mechanics, University of Cassino, Italy
  Centrodes of Planar Mechanisms
  October 25th and October 27th, 2011
• Idzhad Kh. Sabitov, Institute of Mathematics, Moscow State University, Russia.
  Some new integral formulas for compact surfaces
  November 7th, 2011

Differential Geometry Candidate Lectures

• Tim Hoffmann, Munich University of Technology, Germany
  Diskrete Differentialgeometrie
  May 18th, 2011
• Max Wardetzky, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
  Discrete differential operators - structure preservation, convergence & applications
  May 20th, 2011
• Hông Vân Lê, Academy of Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic
  Statistische Modelle und statistische Mannigfaltigkeiten
  May 20th, 2011
• Boris Springborn, University of Bonn, Germany
  Kreispackungen, Polyeder und diskrete konforme Abbildungen
  May 20th, 2011
• Andreas Bernig, University of Frankfurt, Germany
  Bewertungen auf Mannigfaltigkeiten
  June 10th, 2011
• Udo Hertrich-Jeromin, University of Bath, United Kingdom
  Symmetry breaking in geometry
  June 10th, 2011
• Joseph Fu, University of Georgia, U.S.A.
  The geometry of tame singularities
  June 10th, 2011

Defensiones

• Georg Nawratil, Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
  Flexible octahedra, their generalization and application (Habilitation thesis)
  Slides (PDF)
  June 27th, 2011

Presentations

• Presentation of Bachelor's Thesis
  June 6th, 2011

• Presentation of Bachelor's Thesis
  June 20th, 2011
• Presentation of Bachelor's Thesis
  October 24th, 2011
• Presentation of Bachelor's Thesis
  November 14th, 2011
• Presentation of Bachelor's Thesis
  November 28th, 2011