EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT

Title: Mean curvature flow
Speaker: Bruce Kleiner
Speaker Info: NYU
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A mean curvature flow is an evolving submanifold M_t whose velocity is equal to its mean curvature. Mean curvature flow is in some respects the most natural evolution equation for a moving submanifold: it is the gradient flow of the area functional, as well as the analog of the heat equation for submanifolds. The lecture will survey mean curvature flow for a general audience.