Hi Nick --

Well, the list Jesse was thinking about couldn't really be
described as "interesting, but not overly difficult."  I
created it for a course I taught a few times called 
"Recent Research in Geometric Analysis."  It was aimed at
grad students who were just starting to read research 
papers.  In one 10-week quarter, I asked each student to
read two of the papers on the list, give oral reports to 
the class on both, and write up a report on one of them.
This turned out to be *very* demanding, and was generally
seen as the hardest course most of the students had taken.

With that caveat, the list of papers is attached.  I thought
of it as the "greatest hits" in geometric analysis in
the past half century (as subjectively interpreted by me, of
course).  Because this list is almost 10 years old, it's a
bit out of date now, and there are certainly some more 
recent papers that should be added to the list.  

Remember, I make no claim that these papers are in any 
sense easy to read.  Just that they're important.

Good luck!
Jack
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Korevaar [mailto:korevaar@math.utah.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:54 PM
> To: lee@math.washington.edu
> Subject: geometry questoin
> 
> 
> Hi Jack,
>   I've teaching a semester Riemannian geometry course
> and would like students to read papers as a final project.
> I'm looking for interesting, but not overly difficult papers.
> Jesse Ratzkin thinks you might have a list of such papers.
> If you do, could you email it to me.
>   thanks,
>  Nick
> (we're using DoCarmo Riemannian geometry, and will more or less
> finish it.)
>