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2020 Virtual Workshop on Ricci and Scalar Curvature In response to Greta Thunberg’s call to fight global warming by taking less flights, we are organizing a virtual workshop. Everyone is invited to apply to participate. All the selected participants will record their talks and post them online and we will link to their videos from the conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/professorsormani/2020-virtual-workshop-on-ricci-and-scalar-curvature Selected participants will also have corresponding original research articles published in a Special Issue of SIGMA on Scalar and Ricci Curvature in honor of Misha Gromov’s 75th Birthday. SIGMA is a refereed open access journal (with no publication fees). Organizers: Lan-Hsuan Huang (University of Connecticut) Blaine Lawson (Stony Brook) Pengzi Miao (University of Miami) Paolo Piazza (Sapienza Università di Roma) Richard Schoen (University of California at Irvine) Christina Sormani (City University of New York) Guofang Wei (University of California at Santa Barbara) Topics include: synthetic notions of Ricci and scalar curvature; geometric properties of Riemannian manifolds with bounds on their Ricci and scalar curvature; low regularity notions of Ricci and scalar curvature; almost rigidity and stability of rigidity theorems involving Ricci and scalar curvature; convergence of sequences of Riemannian manifolds with bounds on their Ricci or scalar curvature and the properties of their limit spaces. Misha Gromov and Christina Sormani recently lead an IAS Emerging Topics Working Group on Scalar Curvature and Convergence to develop a list of conjectures in this area. Links to videos of those talks are included in this link. We are inviting key participants from this workshop as well as leading experts on Ricci curvature to submit survey articles listing open problems in the areas listed above. All participants in the IAS workshop, and other researchers whose work is directly concerned with the above topics, are invited to submit original research articles . We are especially interested in progress towards the discussed conjectures. Everyone is welcome to submit videos/papers for consideration to be included in this virtual workshop and special issue at the link above. Just include a link to the video in the abstract of your submitted preprint. Others who wish only to submit links to videos about original research published elsewhere may send [log in to unmask] the videos to be considered for inclusion in this virtual conference. The deadline is August 1, 2020. 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