Ricci Curvature: Limit Spaces and Kähler Geometry

This ICMS program consists of a one-week summer school followed by a one-week workshop. The summer school will introduce PhD students and other early-career researchers to essential topics necessary for an understanding of contemporary developments in the field -- most spectacularly perhaps, the recent resolution of the existence of Kahler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds announced by Donaldson and coworkers and by Tian in December 2012. Work in this area is highly technical and demands background in several areas; few early-career researchers have this breadth of background and therefore for most early-career researchers attendance at the summer school is an integral part of the preparation for the workshop. The five summer school courses have been specially designed to prepare participants for the advanced mini-series of lectures which form the core of the workshop in week 2 and which will present the latest results of research in this area including the work on Kähler-Einstein Fano problem.