Young Geometers Meeting

The Young Geometers meeting aims at bridging subareas of Differential Geometry by bringing together early career researchers working in geometry and related fields. The focus of the conference is therefore to provide networking opportunities for advanced master students, PhD Students and early career PostDocs.

During the week there will be up to three mini courses in different areas of Differential geometry. Additionally there will be talks contributed by the participants in the afternoon. 

Mini-Courses

Martin Kerin (Durham University)

Title: Non-negative sectional curvature and exotic spheres

Summary: This mini-course will focus on Riemannian manifolds with non-negative sectional curvature.  After reviewing some classical results, we will introduce the main tools and techniques used to construct such spaces and discuss some interesting examples.  These techniques will then be used to construct metrics with non-negative sectional curvature on a family of seven-dimensional manifolds which includes all exotic 7-spheres. Finally, we'll discuss the homeomorphism and diffeomorphism classification of this family and some related open questions.

 

Maxwell Stolarski (University of Warwick)

Title: Ricci Flow Singularity Formation

Summary: Geometric flows tend to form singularities, and an analysis of these singularities is often necessary for geometric and topological applications. This mini-course will focus on finite-time singularity formation for the Ricci flow. We will first discuss general properties of the Ricci flow and its singularities, and then apply parabolic PDE techniques to construct Ricci flows that form singularities with prescribed dynamics.

 

Zoe Wyatt (University of Cambridge)

Title: Lorentzian Geometry and Causality

Summary: This mini-course will provide an introduction to the geometry of spacetime in general relativity. Beginning with Lorentzian metrics and causal structure, we will discuss geodesics, curvature, black holes, and singularities, emphasizing the geometric ideas that distinguish Lorentzian geometry from the Riemannian theory familiar from differential geometry.

 

Organisers

• Jakob Dittmer (University of Münster)
• Niels Møller (University of Copenhagen)
• Jan Nienhaus (UCLA)
• Artemis Vogiatzi (University of Copenhagen)
• Dennis Wulle (University of Münster)

Contact: ygm.2026@uni-muenster.de

Schedule

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Registration

Registration is open until 15.06.2026. You can register here.

Limited funding is available for all active participants. In particular, we can provide accommodation in shared rooms for all paricipants contributing a talk or a poster. To apply for funding, please submit an abstract of the talk or poster you want to contribute. Confirmations will be send out shortly after the registration deadline.

Support and child care

Childcare is available free of charge for all conference participants.

Venue and Travel Information

The conference takes place in room SRZ 216/217 on the second floor of the seminar building (Seminarraumzentrum, SRZ) next to the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster.

University of Münster
Seminarraumzentrum (SRZ)
Orléans-Ring 12
48149 Münster
Germany

Directions can be found on openstreetmap, on the University of Münster campus map and on the MM websites.

We have also collected practical information in a leaflet: Information for conference guests / Informationsblatt für Tagungsteilnehmer:innen [enIde]

Poster

You are welcome to download the poster from this page and display it at your institution.

Sponsor

The conference is supported by the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster and by the Münster University Internationalisation Fund.