Graduate Geometric Analysis Reading Seminar

Details about the seminar

This is the graduate reading seminar in differential geometry / geometric PDEs. Students will be assigned to give literature talks on a topic over the semester, with some faculty attendance.

The topic for Fall and Spring 2024 is Ricci flow. We will cover the fundamentals in the fall and try to get through most of Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture before the end of the year. We may also dip into the proof of Thurston's geometrization conjecture.

Who to contact with questions: Alex Waldron

Meeting time: Tuesday 4-6pm

Meeting location: Van Vleck B211

Fall 2024 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	Comments
9/10	Sigurd Angenent	Introduction to the Ricci flow
9/17	TBD	Evolution equations under Ricci flow	Topping Ch. 2

Past topics:

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.