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Klappentext Brought together in this book are papers from a conference on differential geometry held in Pisa, in honour of one of the world's most highly respected geometers, Eugenio Calabi. The contributions are from many of the leading authorities in this field and together they cover a wide spectrum of topics and give an unsurpassed overview of current research into differential geometry. Zusammenfassung Brought together in this book are papers from a conference on differential geometry held in Pisa! in honour of Eugenio Calabi. The contributions cover a wide spectrum of areas and give an unsurpassed overview of research into differential geometry that will interest all who work in this subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis Eugenio Calabi and Kahler metrics J. P. Bourguignon; On extremals with prescribed Lagrangian densities R. L. Bryant; Generalized Kummer surfaces and differentiable invariants of Noether-Horiwaka surfaces I . F. Catanese; Encounter with a geometer: Eugenio Calabi M. Berger; A new family of Einstein metrics N. Hitchin; Cohomology of Kahler manifolds with c1=0 S. Salamon; Analytic discriminants for manifolds with canonical class zero J. Jorgenson and A. Todorov; A new relative invariant distance and applications S. Kobayashi; Unseen symplectic boundaries Y. Eliashberg and H. Hofer; On the geometry of cusps for SU(n!1) D. Burns and R. Mazzeo; Construction of holomorphic sections of bundles Y-T. Siu; Quelques resultats recents sur les espaces localement homogenes compacts F. Labourie; The complex structure on connected sums of S3*S3 P. Lu and G. Tian; Grassman and hyperKahler structures on some spaces of section of holomorphic bundles D. Alekseevsky and M. Graev.