Peng Lu, University of Oregon
Title: Monotonicity of functionals for conformal Ricci flow
Abstract: We first survey the monotonicity formulas
in geometric flow,
then talk about a general scheme
to find monotone quantities, finally
construct two functionals
of the positive solutions to the conjugate
heat equation associated
to the metrics evolving by the conformal
Ricci flow on closed
manifolds (joint work with Li, Wang, and Zheng).