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).