The working group on manifolds with lower bounds on Ricci curvature will start on Wednesday 10th February, 11h-13h in the Salle de Profs. Joel will give the first talk, which will be on Gromov’s precompactness theorem for manifolds with lower bounds on Ricci curvature.

During this meeting we will also fix the schedule of speakers for the other talks. Remember, the idea is for informal talks in which we all ask questions; the speaker is not expected to have mastered the material, the goal is to learn together. If you want to come, but don’t want to give a talk you are more than welcome.

The room is booked for Wednesdays, 11h-13h, every week up to and including the 30th March, by which time we’ll all be experts, surely! The full schedule is available on the reading seminar webpage.

The next reading seminar will take place on Tuesday 6th October at 2pm in the Salle de Profs. Patrick will take us through the article Desingularisation of Einstein metrics, I, by Olivier Biquard.

As always, if you would like to give a reading seminar then please get in touch!

The next reading seminar will take place at 11am on Wednesday 23rd September (and not in our usual Tuesday slot). It will be held in the Salle des Profs on the 9th floor of building NO. Michael Khanevsky will present the paper Renormalized area and properly embedded minimal surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds by Alexakis and Mazzeo.

We are still looking for speakers or suggestions of articles for more reading seminars later in the term, so if you have ideas, please get in touch!

Harmonic mappings of Riemannian manifolds.

Presented by Chengjian Yao.

The first reading seminar of the term will take place at 2pm on 8th September, in room NO8.08. (Note this is not our usual seminar room.) Chengjian Yao will present the classic paper Harmonic mappings of Riemannian manifolds by Eells and Sampson. The seminar is meant to be informal, and questions are encouraged!

I am also looking for volunteers for future reading seminars. Please get in touch to offer a talk!