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SUMMARY:An introduction to Ricci solitons - Alejandro Betancourt (Oxford)
DTSTART:20151113T150000Z
DTEND:20151113T160000Z
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CONTACT:Christian Lund
DESCRIPTION:Ricci solitons are generalizations of Einstein metrics. They w
 ere introduced by R. Hamilton in the late 80's to study the behaviour of t
 he Ricci flow. In this talk I will discuss some of the basic notions aroun
 d Ricci solitons and see how they are used to understand the Ricci flow. I
 n particular we will analyse the long time behaviour of the flow and study
  its singularities via blow-up methods.
LOCATION:MR13
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