John Lott (mathematician)

John William Lott (born January 12, 1959)[1] is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is working on Ricci flow.

John W. Lott
John Lott in Oberwolfach 2010.
Born (1959-01-12) January 12, 1959
Rolla, Missouri
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
Doctoral advisorIsadore Singer

He and Bruce Kleiner of Yale University make up one of three teams formed for the purpose of verifying Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture. The other two teams comprised Zhu Xiping and Cao Huaidong, and Gang Tian and John Morgan. They posted a paper on the arXiv in May 2006 that filled in the details of Perelman's proof of the geometrization conjecture.[2]

Major publications
  • Lott, John. Some geometric properties of the Bakry-Émery-Ricci tensor. Comment. Math. Helv. 78 (2003), no. 4, 865–883.
  • Kleiner, Bruce; Lott, John. Notes on Perelman's papers. Geom. Topol. 12 (2008), no. 5, 2587–2855.
  • Lott, John; Villani, Cédric. Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces via optimal transport. Ann. of Math. (2) 169 (2009), no. 3, 903–991.

References
  1. CV
  2. Kleiner, Bruce; John W. Lott (2008). "Notes on Perelman's Papers". Geometry & Topology. 12 (5): 2587–2855. arXiv:math.DG/0605667. doi:10.2140/gt.2008.12.2587.
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