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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 4:30pm

Fernando Coda Marques

IMPA and IAS

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

This is a joint meeting of the Analysis and Geometry-Topology Seminars.

In this talk we will discuss a proof of the path-connectedness of the space of positive scalar curvature metrics on the three-sphere. The proof uses the Ricci flow with surgery and the connected sum construction of Gromov and Lawson. The work of Perelman on Hamilton's Ricci flow is fundamental.