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Ricci Flow and Geometrization of 3-Manifolds December 15, 2003 - December 19, 2003
Registration Deadline: December 19, 2003 over 19 years ago
To apply for Funding you must register by: September 15, 2003 over 19 years ago
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Organizers Ian Agol, Ben Chow, Tobias Colding, David Gabai, and Bruce Kleiner
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This is a workshop sponsored by MSRI and the NSF focusing on Perelman's recent work on Thurston's geometrization conjecture using Hamilton's Ricci flow. The talks at MSRI are intended for a general audience and follow a week long workshop at AIM intended for a more specialized audience. Attending participants include Ian Agol, Ben Andrews, Sigurd Angenent, Danny Calegari, Huai-Dong Cao, Xiaodong Cao, Andrew Casson, Ben Chow, Toby Colding, Daryl Cooper, Sun-Chin Chu, Ailana Fraser, Michael Freedman, David Glickenstein, Christine Guenther, Craig Hodgson, Jim Isenberg, Misha Kapovich, Bruce Kleiner, Dan Knopf, Bernhard Leeb, John Lott,Peng Lu, Feng Luo, John Morgan, Lei Ni, Peter Petersen, Frank Quinn,Hyam Rubinstein, Rick Schoen, Takashi Shioya, Mu-Tao Wang, Brian White, Takao Yamaguchi, and Shing-Tung Yau.
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Dec 15, 2003
Monday
09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  Thurston's Geometrization conjecture and its consequences
Misha Kapovich
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  A Ricci flow primer
Bennett Chow (University of California, San Diego)
Dec 16, 2003
Tuesday
09:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  An overview of Perelman's argument for geometrization using Hamilton's Ricci flow
Bruce Kleiner (New York University, Courant Institute)
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
  Perelman's L-function and (non)collapsing
Peng Lu (University of Oregon)
Dec 17, 2003
Wednesday
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  Ancient solutions with nonnegative curvature
Lei Ni (University of California, San Diego)
10:00 AM - 01:30 PM
  Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
  Finite time extinction for manifolds without aspherical summands
Tobias Colding (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
  Collapsing with a lower curvature bound
Takashi Shioya
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
  Collapsing with a lower curvature bound
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
  Ricci Flow
Richard Hamilton
Dec 18, 2003
Thursday
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
  Kahler Ricci flow
Lei Ni (University of California, San Diego)
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM
  Problem session and discussion of future directions
Bennett Chow (University of California, San Diego)
Dec 19, 2003
Friday
09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  Informal Discussion
Bennett Chow (University of California, San Diego)