THE SEMINAR

THEORY OF DUALITY

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN PHYSICS



On the 25th of February 2016, at 10:15 a.m.

Piotr Waluk (KMMF WFUW)

will give a talk on

"The Ricci flow"

Abstract
The Ricci flow is a technique for analyzing Riemannian manifolds by evolving their metric with respect to a certain differential equation. The method was first introduced by Hamilton in his paper form 1982, as a means to solve a problem concerning classification of 3-dimensional compact manifolds. My talk will be a short introduction to the topic of the Ricci flow, explaining its basic ideas and illustrating them with some application examples.

The seminar takes place on Thursdays from 10:15 a.m. to 12:00 in the room 2.23 of the main building of the Faculty of Physics (the 2nd floor), Pasteur Str. 5, Warszawa.
Additional information can be found on the webpage http://oldwww.fuw.edu.pl/KMMF/sem.czw.przedp.html.