Projects of SPP 2026
On this site you find the list of projects supported by the DFG priority programme „Geometry at Infinity“ during the first funding period 2017-2020. The pages of the individual projects provide information on their research goals, publications, members, and activities.
02Asymptotic geometry of sofic groups and manifolds
Project leader:
Dr. Vadim Alekseev,
Prof. Dr. Andreas Thom
03Geometric operators on a class of manifolds with bounded geometry
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Bernd Ammann,
JProf. Dr. Nadine Große
05Index theory on Lorentzian manifolds
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Christian Bär,
Prof. Dr. Carla Cederbaum
07Asymptotic geometry of moduli spaces of curves
The project investigates the global geometry of Kodaira moduli spaces via twistor methods.
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Roger Bielawski
08Parabolics and invariants
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Bux,
Dr. Dawid Kielak,
Prof. Dr. Ralf Köhl,
Prof. Dr. Stefan Witzel
10Duality and the coarse assembly map
The project studies questions related to the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture.
Project leader:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Engel,
Dr. Christopher Wulff
11Topological and equivariant rigidity in the presence of lower curvature bounds
Project leader:
Dr. Fernando Galaz-García,
Dr. Martin Kerin
14Boundaries of acylindrically hyperbolic groups and applications
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Ursula Hamenstädt
15Spaces and Moduli Spaces of Riemannian Metrics with Curvature Bounds on compact and non-compact Manifolds
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Anand Dessai,
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hanke,
Prof. Dr. Uwe Semmelmann,
Prof. Dr. Wilderich Tuschmann,
Dr. Masoumeh Zarei
16Minimizer of the Willmore energy with prescribed rectangular conformal class
Project leader:
Dr. Lynn Heller
17Existence, regularity and uniqueness results of geometric variational problems
Project leader:
Dr. Jonas Hirsch
20Compactifications and Local-to-Global Structure for Bruhat-Tits Buildings
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Linus Kramer,
Prof. Dr. Petra Schwer
21Stability and instability of Einstein manifolds with prescribed asymptotic geometry
Project leader:
JProf. Dr. Klaus Kröncke
22Willmore functional and Lagrangian surfaces
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Ernst Kuwert,
Prof. Dr. Guofang Wang
23Spectral geometry, index theory and geometric flows on singular spaces
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Matthias Lesch,
Prof. Dr. Boris Vertman
24Minimal surfaces in metric spaces
The project is devoted to the investigation of minimal surfaces in metric spaces.
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Alexander Lytchak,
Dr. Stephan Stadler
25The Willmore energy of degenerating surfaces and singularities of geometric flows
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Elena Mäder-Baumdicker
26Projective surfaces, Segre structures and the Hitchin component for PSL(n,R)
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Mettler
28Rigidity, deformations and limits of maximal representations
Project leader:
JProf. Dr. Maria Beatrice Pozzetti,
Prof. Dr. Anna Wienhard
31Solutions to Ricci flow whose scalar curvature is bounded in Lp.
Project leader:
Prof. Dr. Miles Simon