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Dear Colleague, We are writing to announce a summer school and workshop entitled `Ricci curvature: limit spaces and Kaehler geometry' to take place in Edinburgh 1 July 2013 -- 12 July 2013. The theme of the programme will be the geometry and analysis of the Ricci tensor on Riemannian manifolds, with applications to the study of Einstein metrics and to Kahler geometry. For more information and to apply to attend, please go to http://icms.org.uk/workshop.php?id=262 for the summer school or for the summer school and workshop and to http://www.icms.org.uk/workshop.php?id=256 for the workshop only. Limited funding is available to support participants and can be applied for through the online application forms. Applications for funding will be considered for participants applying by 31 December 2012. Funding decisions will be made and communicated to participants by 31 January 2013. Please encourage your students to apply for the summer school. Below is some further information about the summer school and workshop. With regards, The scientific organising committee: Gilles Carron, Mark Haskins, Hajo Hein, Michael Singer. The workshop will take the form of a two-week programme. The first week - the Summer School - being aimed at graduate students and postdocs, the second week for this same audience plus a further group of participants. A list of mini-courses for the first week is as follows (each four lectures): (i) Comparison geometry with Ricci bounds, including Gromov-Hausdorff limits (Christina Sormani, CUNY) (ii) Introduction to Kahler geometry, including Yau's proof of the Calabi conjecture (Gabor Szekelyhidi, University of Notre Dame) (iii) Introduction to epsilon-regularity and removable singularity theorems in geometric analysis (Brian Weber, University of Pennsylvania) (iv) Tian's resolution of the Calabi conjecture for complex surfaces (Hans- Joachim Hein, Imperial College) (v) Cheeger-Colding theory: volume convergence and the effective splitting theorem. (Aaron Naber, MIT) In the second week the workshop activities will centre around more advanced mini-series (four lectures each), dealing with recent breakthroughs and open problems: (1) Holder continuous behaviour of tangent cones and applications (2) The Margulis lemma under lower Ricci bounds (3) Regularity theory/analysis of singular sets, especially for Einstein metrics (4) Progress and outlook on the Kahler-Einstein problem on Fano manifolds and related issues in Kahler geometry These lectures will be delivered by Jeff Cheeger, Tobias Colding, Simon Donaldson, Aaron Naber, Gang Tian and Burkhard Wilking. These mini-series of lectures will be continuations, at the research level, of the topics covered in the summer school. 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