12 events found.
Recent progress on mean curvature flow
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Robert Haslhofer (University of Toronto) Title: Recent progress on mean curvature flow Abstract: A family of surfaces moves by mean curvature flow if the velocity at each point is given by the mean curvature […]
Morphogenesis: Geometry and Physics
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJust over a century ago, the biologist, mathematician and philologist D’Arcy Thompson wrote “On growth and form”. The book – a literary masterpiece – is a visionary synthesis of the […]
Displacement convexity of Boltzmann’s entropy characterizes positive energy in general relativity
CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Robert McCann (University of Toronto) Title: Displacement convexity of Boltzmann's entropy characterizes positive energy in general relativity Abstract: Einstein's theory of gravity is based on assuming that the fluxes of a energy and […]