Event Detail

Event Type: 
Topology Seminar
Date/Time: 
Monday, April 8, 2013 - 05:00
Location: 
GilK 104

Speaker Info

Guest Speaker: 
Adam Layne
Institution: 
University of Oregon
Abstract: 

The curve shortening flow is the mean curvature flow for 1-manifolds evolving in 2-manifolds. In the cases that the curve is embedded, or that it is evolving in the plane, the behavior of the flow is known in (more or less) detail. I will provide an introduction to the flow and these historical results, and then outline a generalization (due to Paul T. Allen, Katharine Tsukahara, and myself) of a theorem by Gerhard Huisken on the long-term behavior of curves with fixed endpoints. 

Host: 
Christine M. Escher