Speaker: Stephen Lynch
Affilication: Tübingen
Abstract
Mean curvature flow is the gradient flow of the area functional, and the simplest analogue of the heat equation for a submanifold. Like the Ricci flow, it is an extremely useful tool for solving geometric problems, provided the singularities that form along the flow can be understood. We will briefly recount the major developments in the study of singularities in mean curvature flow, present a new classification result for Type I singularities, and discuss the most crucial open questions in this area.
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