Upcoming talks
October 16, 2024
- Fedor Manin: How hard is the theorem of Stoltz?
(10:30 am NYC, 16:30 Paris) - Stoltz, building on work of Gromov–Lawson and Atiyah–Singer–Lichnerowicz–Hitchen, discovered exactly which simply connected spin manifolds have metrics of positive scalar curvature. Now say someone gives you a metric on a manifold which admits a metric of positive scalar curvature. How much more complicated do you have to make this metric so that it actually has positive scalar curvature? How hard is it to find a deformation between these two metrics? I will discuss joint work with Shmuel Weinberger, Zhizhang Xie and Guoliang Yu which gives some answers to these questions.
October 30, 2024
- Werner Ballmann: tba
(10:30 am NYC, 15:30 (!) Paris)
November 13, 2024
- Michael Eichmair and Thomas Körber : tba
(10:30 am NYC, 16:30 Paris)
November 27, 2024
- Tsz-Kiu Aaron Chow: tba
(10:30 am NYC, 16:30 Paris)
December 11, 2024
- tba
(10:30 am NYC, 16:30 Paris)
Previous talks
Seminar Info
Each session will consist of one or two lectures on a recent advance in geometry. Not all the talks will concern scalar curvature but perhaps many will. Each talk will be followed by a discussion both in person and online. Everyone is welcome to join the session live (zoom) or watch the recorded videos of the talks later.Zoom starts at 10:30 am NYC time:
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https://www.carmin.tv/en/collections/not-only-scalar-curvature-seminarOrganizers
Misha Gromov, IHES
Website: https://www.ihes.fr/~gromov/
Bernhard Hanke, University of Augsburg
Website: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/mntf/math/prof/diff/team/bernhard-hanke/
Christina Sormani, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/professorsormani/home
Gouliang Yu, Texas A&M University
Website: https://www.math.tamu.edu/people/formalpg.php?user=guoliangyu