[CvGmt News] GFO-Pisa - Lectures of Prof. Mauro Carfora

[Carlo Mantegazza]

On monday 18 May 2009, at 10.00 in Aula Dini of the Scuola Normale 
Superiore, Palazzo del Castelletto, in connection with the research 
trimester "Geometric Flows and Geometric Operators" at the Centro De 
Giorgi in Pisa, Prof. Mauro Carfora of Dept. of Fisica Nucleare e
Teorica - University of Pavia, will begin his two-weeks series of
lectures on "Ricci Flow in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics".

Abstract: Ricci flow plays a natural role in many distinct physical 
theories. In this series of lectures we review a few case studies which 
characterize in important interaction between mathematics and physics.
In particular, we shall discuss the relation between Ricci flow and 
non-linear sigma model theory, the applications of Ricci flow to general 
relativity, and finally some aspects of the role of Ricci flow in the 
theory of diffusion processes on Riemannian manifolds.