Conferences, workshops & schools
Where the people who actually do this work get together. Meetings devoted to Ricci flow are rare, so I keep the past ones too — most of them recorded their talks, and those recordings are the closest I can get to being in the room.
Official calendars checked automatically every week · last check Sep 23, 2026
Apr 25–30, 2027 · Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada
BIRS workshop 27w5677 on geometric PDE — the analytic toolkit (elliptic and parabolic equations on manifolds) that underpins Ricci flow. Talk videos are usually posted on the BIRS site afterwards.
Jun 27 – Jul 2, 2027 · TBA
Listed on a colleague's conference page as an international geometry & analysis conference honouring Gang Tian (Kähler–Ricci flow, Kähler–Einstein metrics, and co-author of the Morgan–Tian proof of the Poincaré conjecture). Location and details not yet public — verify before planning travel.
Seminars
Single talks, updated every week. A lot of them are online and open to anyone, which still amazes me — you can sit in on current research from your kitchen table.
No upcoming talks listed right now. Recent ones are below.
Talk videos from these meetings are some of the best free resources for learning the field.
Aug 2–7, 2026 · Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada
Organised by Jingyi Chen, Richard Bamler, Gang Tian, Peter Topping and Arunima Bhattacharya. Recent work on Ricci flow, mean curvature flow and their links to Einstein metrics and mirror symmetry. Recorded talks are on the BIRS video archive.
Jul 23–30, 2026 · Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, USA
The quadrennial congress. It included Simon Brendle's plenary lecture “Singularity Models in 3D Ricci Flow”, which is a good one-hour overview of where the field stands after Perelman. The recording is on YouTube.
Aug 19 – Dec 20, 2024 · SLMath (formerly MSRI), Berkeley, USA
A semester-long program on geometric flows, mathematical relativity, global Riemannian geometry and minimal submanifolds. Many lectures and introductory workshops were recorded.
Mar 27–31, 2023 · University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Organised by Peter Topping, on recent developments in Ricci flow and neighbouring areas. Speakers included Christoph Böhm, Dan Knopf, Felix Schulze, Lu Wang and Guofang Wei.
Jul 11–15, 2022 · Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, USA
Marked 40 years since Hamilton's 1982 paper. The talk videos on the SCGP portal make a good tour of the field, from Hamilton's program to current work.
Jun 20 – Jul 2, 2022 · Athens, Greece (SLMath × IACM-FORTH)
A two-week introduction for graduate students to the most important geometric evolution equations: Ricci flow, mean curvature flow and their singularities. It is a good example of the kind of school worth watching for in future years.
Where new events get announced
Official calendars (BIRS workshop calendars, researchseminars.org talks) are scanned automatically every week, most recently on Sep 23, 2026. Other entries are curated by hand (last reviewed Sep 22, 2026). Know of something I've missed? Tell me about it.