Ian Agol's Research Blog

This web page is intended to be a couple of things: Remark: If a person mentioned in a blog entry has a web page linked
at links to low-dimensional topology, then I do not include a link to their
web page (although the converse is not always true).

10/4/04 Subarithmetic surface groups
9/27/04 Geodesic surfaces
9/21/04 Black Oak Arkansas conjecture
9/20/04 Oberwolfach
8/31/04 Salem conjecture and generalized Ramanujan conjecture
8/18/04 Conjectures of Waldhausen and Sedgwick
8/13/04 Heegaard splittings
8/4/04 rank of groups
7/21/04 4-orbifolds, GWP
7/12/04 Some papers on the ArXiv
7/6/04 Volume estimates via Ricci flow
Scientific American: The Shapes of Space
6/29/04 rank vs. Heegaard genus
6/21/04 Virtual indicability
6/14/04 Tameness in Texas
6/9/04 Euler characteristic of K(pi,1)s
6/8/04 Texas topology
5/25/04 What's next?
5/12/04 Cornell Topology Festival
5/5/04 Minimal surfaces bounding space curves
4/6/04 Sphere packings
Kepler conjecture published
3/29/04 Surfaces in 3-manifolds
3/27/04 STDC '04
3/10/04 Khovanov homology
11/24/03 Systoles in the boundary of convex cores
11/17/03 Convex cores/ generalized geometric limit argument
11/16/03 Rigidity of MCG / tame negatively curved 3-manifolds
11/14/03 End reductions and Marden's conjecture
11/13/03 An approach to a special case of Marden's conjecture
11/12/03 Marden's conjecture
10/31/03 Tube volume comparison / Ricci flow as "heat" flow
10/28/03 Pinching estimate for volume entropy of 3-manifolds
10/27/03 More on handle decompositions of 4-manifolds
10/17/03 Surgery on knots / conjecture on Willmore energy and Ricci flow
Cosmic soccer ball
Universe = Poincare Dodecahedral Space?
vs. No circles in the sky
10/8/03 Generalized Smale conjecture and conjectures on Ricci flow
10/6/03 Ricci flow for warp products
8/20/03 Ricci flow and monotonicity formulae
8/18/03 Spaces of Kleinian groups
7/24/03 Collapsing vs. injectivity radius
7/23/03 Non-collapsing of Ricci flow
7/21/03 Finite extinction of Ricci flow
7/15/03 Ricci flow as a gradient flow
6/25/03 Georgia topology conference
Notes on Ricci flow
5/21/03 Minimal surfaces and Ricci flow
5/6/03 Heegaard splittings and taut foliations
Pics from Perelman's lectures at MIT
Science News article on Perelman's Stony Brook talks
4/29/03 Talks by Knopf and Eskin, and curve complexes of handlebodies
4/22/03 talks by Masur, Handel, Gaboriau, and Reid
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2003-04-15/poincare/
Poincare postulate proven by Petersburg's Perelman?
NYT article on Perelman again (quotes Freedman)
Scientific American article about parallel universes
4/15/03 U. of Arkansas Spring Lecture Series
NYT article on Perelman's claim of Poincare conjecture
4/8/03 Efficient cell structures on 3-manifolds(PDF)
4/4/03 News
4/1/03 Representations of 3-manifolds and homology(PDF)
3/25/03 Spring Topology and Dynmical Systems Conference(PDF)
3/18/03 Algorithmic problems in 3-manifold topology(PDF)
3/17/03 AMS meeting Baton Rouge(PDF)
3/13/03 Conjugacy classes in SLnZ (PDF)
3/12/03 ricci / donut
3/08/03 Kleinian groups (PDF)
3/06/03 Injectivity radius of cubed hyperbolic 3-manifolds (PDF)
3/04/03 Singularities in Ricci flow on 3-manifolds (PDF)
3/03/03 WMAP
3/01/03 Ricci flow on 4-manifolds
2/28/03 Metric flows (PDF)
2/27/03 Train tracks
2/26/03 Ricci flow