Seminars and Colloquia Schedule

An ODE associated to the Ricci flow

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Atreyee BhattacharyaIndian Institute Of Science
In this talk we will discuss an ODE associated to the evolution of curvature along the Ricci flow. We talk about the stability of certain fixed points of this ODE (up to a suitable normalization). These fixed points include curvature of a large class of symmetric spaces.