The program covered a wide range of new developments in geometry. To name some of them, we mention the topics "Metric space geometry in the style of Alexandrov/Gromov", "Polyhedra with prescribed metric", "Willmore surfaces", "Constant mean curvature surfaces in three-dimensional Lie groups". The official program consisted of 21 lectures and included four lectures by V. Schroeder (Zürich) and S. Buyalo (Sankt-Petersburg) on "Asymptotic geometry of Gromov hyperbolic spaces".

The workshop was organized by V. Bangert (Freiburg), Yu. D. Burago (St. Petersburg) and U. Pinkall (Berlin). Out of the 47 participants 22 came from Germany, 8 from the United States, 7 from Switzerland, 4 from Russia, 4 from England and 2 from France. The official program consisted of 20 lectures and included four lectures by B. Kleiner (Ann Arbor) on “Perelman's work on Ricci flow'”. The program covered a wide range of new developments in geometry. To name some of them, we mention the topics “Metric space geometry in the style of Alexandrov/Gromov”, “Finsler geometry”, “Constant mean curvature surfaces in Thurston geometries”.