ERC advanced grant GEometry and Topology of Open Manifolds (GETOM)
A second one year post-doctoral position is now advertised. All informations are posted on
http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~besson/PostDoc-2014.pdf
or download the file
New ERC advanced grant GEometry and Topology of Open Manifolds (GETOM)
Starting February 1st I obtained an advanced grant from the European Research Council. The grant concerns the geometry and topology of open 3-manifolds. A web page will be ready soon. A one year post-doctoral position is now adertised. All informations are posted on
Lecture by Luc Lemaire
Professor Luc Lemaire from the Université Libre de Bruxelles gave a talk (in french) on the proof of the Poincaré conjecture for a large audience (high school students, teachers, etc…). The text of his lecture is available here.
Post-Doctoral Positions
The A.N.R. Grant named FOG (Flots et opérateurs géométriques) opens three six months post-doctoral positions in one of the partner departments to be held during the academic year 2010-2011. The applicants should be working on a subject related to the grant theme. The deadline for applications is May 1st and more informations are available here.
Bourbaki goes to Luxembourg (garden)
On march 15th, 2009, I gave the Bourbaki lecture on “the differentiable sphere theorem”. As a protest against the government policy, the beginning of the lecture has been given on the bandstand of Jardin du Luxembourg. After ten minutes we had to leave when the senate police arrived. We then finished the lecture in the regular room at Institut Henri Poincaré. A video is posted on You Tube.
The power of mathematics, why they still are unavoidable
The magazine La Recherche recently published a special issue (Les Dossiers de La Recherche n°37 trimestriel novembre 2009). An improved version of a previous paper appeared in this volume. It is entitled “Comment on est venu à bout de la conjecture de Poincaré” and contains a wide-audience description of Perelman’s works on Hamilton’s Ricci flow leading to the proof of Poincaré’s Conjecture. A previous version also published in La Recherche is available here.
Collapsing irreducible 3-manifolds with nontrivial fundamental group
This is a joint work with Laurent Bessières, Michel Boileau, Sylvain Maillot and Joan Porti. Let M be a closed, orientable, irreducible, non-simply connected 3-manifold.We prove that if M admits a sequence of Riemannian metrics which volume-collapses and whose sectional curvature is locally controlled, then M is a graph manifold. This is the last step in Perelman’s proof of Thurston’s Geometrisation Conjecture.
The reference is:
L. Bessières, G. Besson, M. Boileau, S. Maillot and J. Porti Collapsing irreducible 3-manifolds with nontrivial fundamental group Invent math (2010) 179: 435–460.
