Lecture notes
Lecture notes were taken by three different scribes:
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notes version 2, or
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References
Recent articles:
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Grisha Perelman, The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric
applications, math.DG/0211159.
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Grisha Perelman, Ricci flow with surgery on three-manifolds, math.DG/0303109.
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Grisha Perelman, Finite extinction time for the solutions to the Ricci flow on
certain three-manifolds, math.DG/0307245.
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Huai-Dong Cao and Xi-Ping Zhu, A complete proof of the Poincaré and
geometrization conjectures---application of the Hamilton-Perelman theory of
the Ricci flow, Asian J. Math.
10 (2006), no. 2, 165-492.
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John W. Morgan and Gang Tian, Ricci Flow and the Poincare
Conjecture, math.DG/0607607.
Some surveys:
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William P. Thurston, Three-dimensional manifolds, Kleinian groups and
hyperbolic geometry, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 6 (1982),
no. 3, 357-381.
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Peter Scott, The geometries of $3$-manifolds, Bull. London Math. Soc.
15 (1983), no. 5, 401-487.
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Huai-Dong Cao and Bennett Chow, Recent developments on the Ricci flow,
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 36 (1999), no. 1, 59-74.
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John Milnor, Towards the Poincaré conjecture and the classification
of 3-manifolds, Notices Amer. Math.
Soc. 50 (2003), no. 10, 1226-1233.
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Michael T. Anderson, Geometrization of 3-manifolds via the Ricci
flow, Notices
Amer. Math. Soc. 51 (2004), no. 2, 184-193.
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John W. Morgan, Recent progress on the Poincaré conjecture and
the classification of 3-manifolds, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 42 (2005), no. 1, 57-78
(electronic).
A related physics paper:
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Matthew Headrick and Toby Wiseman, Ricci flow and black holes, hep-th/0606086.