Minimal surfaces and constant mean curvature surfaces


Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick

Tuesday 20 January 2009


Contact: Peter Topping (Warwick)


Invited speakers:

Jacob Bernstein (MIT)
Christine Breiner (Johns Hopkins)
Joel Kramer (Johns Hopkins)
Giuseppe Tinaglia (Warwick)

We have also organised talks that week by:

Tobias Colding (MIT) - Analysis seminar, Thursday 22 January 2009.
Bill Meeks (Amherst) - Colloquium, Friday 23 January 2009.

Tentative schedule for 20th Jan:
2:00 - 2:45 -- Christine Breiner - "Conformal Structure of Minimal Surfaces with Finite Topology"
2:50 - 3:35 -- Jacob Bernstein - "Compactness properties of the space of genus-g helicoids"
3:35 - 4:00 -- tea
4:00 - 4:45 -- Joel Kramer - "Embedded minimal spheres of large area"
4:50 -- 5:35 -- Giuseppe Tinaglia - "On the isometric deformability of minimal and constant mean curvature surfaces"

Supported by the Leverhulme Trust.



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