Departmental Colloquium
Ben Weinkove
Northwestern
Geometric flows on complex surfaces
Abstract: The Ricci flow has been a powerful tool in the study of
three-dimensional manifolds. I will discuss the behavior of this flow
on an important class of four-dimensional manifolds: the Kahler
surfaces. In addition, I will discuss a flow which generalizes the
Kahler-Ricci flow called the Chern-Ricci flow. This is a geometric
flow on complex manifolds, recently introduced by M. Gill. I will
describe some recent results and conjectures in the case of complex
surfaces.
Friday January 31, 2014 at 3:00 PM in SEO 636