Polly: Discrete Weierstrass-type representations have played a crucial role
in the development of integrable discrete differential geometry. They were
used to define discrete analogues of important surface classes such as
minimal surfaces in Euclidean space and surfaces of constant mean curvature
1 in hyperbolic space.
In this talk, we present a sphere geometric interpretation of many
well-known Weierstrass-type representations. In pursuit of that we discuss
discrete isothermic sphere congruences and discrete Omega nets from the
point of view of Laguerre geometry. We will recover Weierstrass-type
representations as certain applications of the Omega transformation.
The presented results are taken from a joint project with Mason Pember
and Masashi Yasumoto.
Jeromin: We shall investigate a geometric mechanism that may, in analogy to
similar notions in physics, be considered as "symmetry breaking" in
geometry and see various ways in which this mechanism materializes - hoping
to extract patterns that may lead to a deeper understanding of how
"symmetry breaking phenomena" in geometry come about and how they compare
to symmetry breaking phenomena known from physics.