Program

Detailed daily schedule

The school combines mini-courses, invited talks and lecture series, exercises on Gromov-Hausdorff distance, and open problems sessions. Free days are kept on October 24–25.

Date	Time	Speaker	Session
October 19, Mon	9:45–10:00	Zhang Jiping	School opening, welcome speech
	10:00–10:50	Alexander O. Ivanov	Lecture 1. Hausdorff and Gromov–Hausdorff distances
	10:50–11:10	—	Coffee break
	11:10–12:00	Alexander O. Ivanov	Lecture 2. Properties of the Gromov–Hausdorff distance
	12:00	—	Get a lunchbox
	14:00–14:50	Boris A. Nesterov	Lecture: how to solve problems
	14:50–15:10	—	Coffee break
	15:10–16:00	—	Discussion on open problem
	16:00	—	Get a lunchbox
October 20, Tue	10:00–10:50	Alexander O. Ivanov	Lecture 3. Compact metric spaces in GH-topology
	10:50–11:10	—	Coffee break
	11:10–12:00	Alexander O. Ivanov	Lecture 4. Local and global isometries of space ℳ
	12:00	—	Get a lunchbox
	14:00–14:50	Boris A. Nesterov	Lecture: how to solve problems
	14:50–15:10	—	Coffee break
	15:10–16:00	—	Discussion on open problem
	16:00	—	Get a lunchbox
October 21, Wed	10:00–10:50	Alexey A. Tuzhilin	Lecture 1. Applications of GH distance: MST-spectrum, Borsuk problem and combinatorial invariants
	10:50–11:10	—	Coffee break
	11:10–12:00	Alexey A. Tuzhilin	Lecture 2. Ultrametrization and its applications in GH geometry
	12:00	—	Get a lunchbox
	14:00–14:50	Boris A. Nesterov	Lecture: how to solve problems
	14:50–15:10	—	Coffee break
	15:10–16:00	—	Discussion on open problem
	16:00	—	Get a lunchbox
October 22, Thu	10:00–10:50	Alexey A. Tuzhilin	Lecture 3. Topological methods in GH-distance estimates
	10:50–11:10	—	Coffee break
	11:10–12:00	Alexey A. Tuzhilin	Lecture 4. Estimation of the GH-distance to a normed space through the Jung constant
	12:00	—	Get a lunchbox
	14:00–14:50	Boris A. Nesterov	Lecture: how to solve problems
	14:50–15:10	—	Coffee break
	15:10–16:00	—	Discussion on open problem
	16:00	—	Get a lunchbox
October 23, Fri	10:00–10:50	Zhang Huichun	Lecture 1. Introduction to Alexandrov geometry
	10:50–11:10	—	Coffee break
	11:10–12:00	Zhang Huichun	Lecture 2. A brief introduction to RCD spaces
	12:00	—	Get a lunchbox
	14:00–14:50	Zhang Huichun	Lecture: how to solve problems
	14:50–15:10	—	Coffee break
	15:10–16:00	—	Discussion on open problem
	16:00	—	Get a lunchbox
	19:00	—	Banquet
October 24–25	—	—	Free days with no mandatory classes
October 26, Mon	10:00–10:50	Semeon A. Bogatyi	Invited talk. Analogues of the Gromov–Hausdorff distance
	10:50–11:10	—	Coffee break
	11:10–12:00	Arsen Kh. Galstyan	Invited talk. On the existence of minimal parametric networks
	12:00	—	Get a lunchbox
	14:00–14:50	Arsen Kh. Galstyan	Lecture: how to solve problems
	14:50–15:10	—	Coffee break
	15:10–16:00	Semeon A. Bogatyi	Lecture: discussion on open problems
	16:00	—	Get a lunchbox
October 27, Tue	10:00–10:50	Alexei G. Kushner	Invited talk. Geometric structures and second-order differential equations: results and open problems
	10:50–11:10	—	Coffee break
	11:10–12:00	Li Yan	Invited talk. Gromov–Hausdorff convergence with group action
	12:00	—	Get a lunchbox
	14:00–14:50	Li Yan	Lecture: how to solve problems
	14:50–15:10	—	Coffee break
	15:10–16:00	Alexei G. Kushner	Lecture: discussion on open problems
	16:00	—	Get a lunchbox
October 28, Wed	10:00–10:50	Zhang Huichun	Lecture 3. Bochner inequality and linear geometric analysis on Alexandrov/RCD spaces
	10:50–11:10	—	Coffee break
	11:10–12:00	Jiang Wenshuai	Lecture 1. Volume comparison, segment inequality, Poincaré and Sobolev inequalities, elliptic estimates
	12:00	—	Get a lunchbox
	14:00–14:50	Zhang Huichun	Lecture: how to solve problems
	14:50–15:10	—	Coffee break
	15:10–16:00	—	Discussion on open problem
	16:00	—	Get a lunchbox
October 29, Thu	10:00–10:50	Jiang Wenshuai	Lecture 2. GH-splitting theorem, volume convergence, almost volume cone and almost metric cone
	10:50–11:10	—	Coffee break
	11:10–12:00	Jiang Wenshuai	Lecture 3. Almost volume cone, almost metric cone, and related applications
	12:00	—	Get a lunchbox
	14:00–14:50	Zhang Huichun	Lecture 4. Sobolev spaces with metric targets
	14:50–15:10	—	Coffee break
	15:10–16:00	Jiang Wenshuai	Lecture: discussion on open problems
	16:00	—	Get a lunchbox
October 30, Fri	10:00–10:50	Jiang Wenshuai	Lecture 4. Regularity theorem and structure of Ricci limit spaces
	10:50–11:10	—	Coffee break
	11:10–12:00	Jiang Wenshuai	Lecture 5. Open problems and further topics on the geometry of Ricci curvature
	12:00	—	Get a lunchbox
	14:00–14:50	Zhang Huichun	Lecture 5. Regularity of harmonic maps and heat flows into CAT(0) spaces
	14:50–15:10	—	Coffee break
	15:10–16:00	Jiang Wenshuai	Lecture: discussion on open problems
	16:00	—	Get a lunchbox

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