Heat Diffusion in Geometry

Date: 
Saturday, 13 January, 2018 - 15:00 - 16:00
Venue: 
LSB, LT2
Seminar Type: 
Public Lecture
Speaker Name: 
Prof. Gerhard Huisken
Affiliation: 
University of Tübingen
Abstract: 

The lecture will describe how diffusion properties of geometric evolution equations of parabolic type can be used to deform complicated geometric structures into simpler models that can be more easily understood. Specific examples will be the deformation of hypersurfaces by mean curvature flow and the deformation of Riemannian metrics by Ricci flow.