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Penn Mathematics Colloquium

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 4:30pm

Panagiota Daskalopoulos

Columbia University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL A6

We will consider the deformation of hypersurfaces by various geometric flows. Examples include the well studied flow by Mean curvature the Gauss curvature flow and the Harmonic mean curvarure flow.

These flows provide interesting models of non-linear diffusion, where the interplay between analytical tools and geometric intuition leads to the development of new techniques.

We will discuss short and long time existence as well as the regularity of solutions.