Geometry and Topology Seminar 2019-2020

The Geometry and Topology seminar meets in room 901 of Van Vleck Hall on Fridays from 1:20pm - 2:10pm.
For more information, contact Alexandra Kjuchukova or Lu Wang .

Fall 2016

date	speaker	title	host(s)
September 9	Bing Wang (UW Madison)	"The extension problem of the mean curvature flow"	(Local)
September 16	Ben Weinkove (Northwestern University)	Gauduchon metrics with prescribed volume form	Lu Wang
September 23	Jiyuan Han (UW Madison)	"TBA"	(Local)
September 30
October 7	Yu Li (UW Madison)	"TBA"	(Local)
October 14	Sean Howe (University of Chicago)	"TBA"	Melanie Matchett Wood
October 21
October 28
November 4	Jonathan Zhu (Harvard University)	"TBA"	Lu Wang
November 7	Gaven Martin (University of New Zealand)	"TBA"	Simon Marshall
November 11
November 18
Thanksgiving Recess
December 2
December 9
December 16

Fall Abstracts

Jiyuan Han

TBA

Sean Howe

TBA

Yu Li

TBA

Gaven Marin

TBA

Bing Wang

The extension problem of the mean curvature flow

We show that the mean curvature blows up at the first finite singular time for a closed smooth embedded mean curvature flow in R^3.

Ben Weinkove

Every compact complex manifold admits a Gauduchon metric in each conformal class of Hermitian metrics. In 1984 Gauduchon conjectured that one can prescribe the volume form of such a metric. I will discuss the proof of this conjecture, which amounts to solving a nonlinear Monge-Ampere type equation. This is a joint work with Gabor Szekelyhidi and Valentino Tosatti.

Jonathan Zhu

TBA

Archive of past Geometry seminars

2015-2016: Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2015-2016

2014-2015: Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2014-2015

2013-2014: Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2013-2014

2012-2013: Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2012-2013

2011-2012: Geometry_and_Topology_Seminar_2011-2012

2010: Fall-2010-Geometry-Topology