Abstract

This conference will gather around eighty specialists of variational problems and the geometry of Riemannian and Lorentzian submanifolds. It will be the occasion to listen to some of the foremost researchers on harmonic maps, minimal surfaces, constant mean curvature surfaces, the Willmore problem, biharmonic maps, knot theory (from the geometric perspective), Yang-Mills theory as well as submanifolds from the viewpoint of Riemannian or Lorentzian geometry.