Potential Theory and Analysis on Metric Spaces


Conference


Organizers:  Takashi Kumagai     (Kyoto University)                  
                 Atsushi Atsuji     (Keio University)                    



DATE:   June 30, 2003 (Mon) 9:30- July 2 (Wed) 16:30

PLACE:   Room 115, RIMS, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502



Program

June 30 (Mon)  
9:30-10:20                  Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell University)
  The heat equation on manifolds with ends
  (Joint work with A. Grigor'yan)
10:30-11:10                  Takashi Shioya (Tohoku University)
  Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of Sobolev spaces
11:30-12:10                  Atsushi Kasue (Kanazawa University)
  Convergence of Riemannian vector bundles and energy forms
14:00-14:50          Karl-Theodor Sturm (University of Bonn)
  Transport inequalities, gradient estimates, entropy and curvature I
15:00-15:40                  Shin-ichi Ohta (Tohoku University)
  Regularity of harmonic functions in Cheeger type Sobolev spaces
16:00-16:40                  Kazuhiro Kuwae (Yokohama City University)
  Calabi's strong maximum principle via local Dirichlet forms

July 1 (Tue)  
9:30-10:20                  Laurent Saloff-Coste (Cornell University)
  Invariant Laplacians on the infinite dimensional torus:
  Examples in the theory of local Dirichlet spaces
  (Joint work with A. Bendikov)
10:30-11:10                  Hiroaki Aikawa (Shimane University)
  Converse of the boundary Harnack principle
11:30-12:10                  Minoru Murata (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  Uniqueness theorems for parabolic equations and
  Martin boundaries for elliptic equations in skew product form
14:00-14:40          Motoko Kotani (Tohoku University)
  The magnetic transition operators on a crystal lattice
14:50-15:30          Satoshi Ishiwata (Tohoku University)
  Random walks on nilpotent covering graphs
15:50-16:50          Open problem session
   
18:00-            Reception
   
July 2 (Wed)  
9:30-10:20                  Karl-Theodor Sturm (University of Bonn)
  Transport inequalities, gradient estimates, entropy and curvature II
10:30-11:10                  Yuzuru Inahama (Osaka University)
  Eigenvalue asymptotics for the Schrödinger operators
  on the hyperbolic plane (joint work with Shin-ichi Shirai)
11:30-12:10          Masayoshi Takeda (Tohoku University)
  Criticality of generalized Schrödinger operators and differentiability
  of spectral functions
14:00-14:40          Shigeki Aida (Osaka University)
  Precise Gaussian estimates of heat kernels
  on asymptotically flat Riemannian manifolds with poles
14:50-15:30                 Jun Kigami (Kyoto University)
  Local Nash inequality and inhomogeneity of heat kernels
15:50-16:30                  Masatoshi Fukushima (Kansai University)
  Dirichlet forms and diffusions on one-point compactifications