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The graduate reading seminar in differential geometry / geometric analysis meets '''Tuesdays 4-6pm''' in '''Van Vleck | The graduate reading seminar in differential geometry / geometric analysis meets '''Tuesdays 4-6pm''' in '''Van Vleck B123'''. Students will give literature talks over the semester with participation by several faculty (Sean Paul, Alex Waldron, Ruobing Zhang, and Sigurd Angenent). To join the mailing list, send an email to: math-geom-reading+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu. | ||
The topic for | The topic for Spring 2025 is '''Cone structures in Riemannian geometry''', supervised by Ruobing Zhang. | ||
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Spring '24: Heat-kernel approach to the Atiyah-Singer index theorem | Spring '24: Heat-kernel approach to the Atiyah-Singer index theorem | ||
Revision as of 21:13, 24 January 2025
The graduate reading seminar in differential geometry / geometric analysis meets Tuesdays 4-6pm in Van Vleck B123. Students will give literature talks over the semester with participation by several faculty (Sean Paul, Alex Waldron, Ruobing Zhang, and Sigurd Angenent). To join the mailing list, send an email to: math-geom-reading+subscribe@g-groups.wisc.edu.
The topic for Spring 2025 is Cone structures in Riemannian geometry, supervised by Ruobing Zhang.
Past topics:
Fall '24: Ricci flow
| Date | Speaker | Title | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/10 | Sigurd Angenent | Introduction to the Ricci flow | |
| 9/17 | Alex Waldron | Rapid course in Riemannian geometry | Notes |
| 9/24 | Ruocheng Yang | Evolution equations under Ricci flow | Topping Ch. 2, Notes |
| 10/1 | Kaiyi Huang | The maximum principle | Topping Ch. 3, Notes |
| 10/8 | Anuk Dayaprema | Short-time existence for the Ricci flow | Topping Ch. 4-5 |
| 10/15 | Yijie He | Ricci flow as a gradient flow | Topping Ch. 6 |
| 10/22 | Ruobing Zhang | The compactness theorem for the Ricci flow | Topping Ch. 7 |
| 10/29 | Alex Waldron | Curvature pinching and preserved curvature properties | Topping Ch. 9 |
| 11/05 | Andoni Royo-Abrego (Tübingen) | Ricci flow and sphere theorems | Notes |
| 11/12 | Anuk Dayaprema | Perelman's W-functional | Topping Ch. 8 |
Spring '24: Heat-kernel approach to the Atiyah-Singer index theorem
Fall '23: G2 geometry
Spring '23: Yau's proof of the Calabi conjecture
Fall '22: Spin geometry and the index theorem
Spring '22: Differential-geometric approach to GIT.