GEOMETRY SEMINAR
FALL 2001
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Address:  Mathematics | University of Alabama at Birmingham 
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  • Tuesday, November 27

    • Sumio Yamada (UAB)
    Embeddedness of minimal surfaces with total boundary curvature at most 4 pi
    11:25 AM in Room CH 458
  • Tuesday, November 20

    • Gilbert Weinstein (UAB)
    The extended monotonicity formula for minimal surfaces
    11:25 AM in Room CH 458
  • Tuesday, November 13

    • Sumio Yamada (UAB)
    The Plateau Problem into a Riemannian manifold (continued)
    11:25 AM in Room CH 458
  • Tuesday, November 6

    • Sumio Yamada (UAB)
    The Plateau Problem into a Riemannian manifold (continued)
    11:25 AM in Room CH 458
  • Tuesday, October 30

    • Sumio Yamada (UAB)
    The Plateau Problem into a Riemannian manifold (continued)
    11:25 AM in Room CH 458
  • Tuesday, October 23

    • Robert Brooks (Technion and MIT)
    Riemann Surfaces and 3-Regular Graphs
    11:25 AM in Room CH 458

    Abstract: (joint work with Eran Makover) What does a typical surface of constant curvature look like geometrically? We study this question by modeling it on the geometric behavior of a randomly chosen 3-regular graph. The resulting picture is an interesting mix of techniques from Riemannian geometry, complex analysis, and probability theory, and contains some surprising answers.
  • Tuesday, October 16

    • Chikako Mese (Connecticut College)
    Harmonic maps and minimal surfaces in singular geometry
    11:25 AM in Room CH 458

    Abstract: Harmonic maps into singular targets has attracted the attention of many researchers. Recent developments extend much of the existing harmonic map theory to singlar target spaces for which the curvature is bounded from above in the sense of triangle comparison hypothesis. In this talk, we will summarize our investigation; in particular, we consider minimal surface theory as an extention of the harmonic map theory in this general setting. Second, as an application of these generalized harmonic maps and minimal surfaces, we will outline a completion of the Gerstenhaber-Rauch program of constructing the Teichmuller map between two compact Riemann surfaces.
  • Tuesday, September 25

    • Sumio Yamada (UAB)
    The Plateau Problem into a Riemannian manifold
    11:25 AM in Room CH 458
  • Tuesday, September 18

    • Cancelled
  • Tuesday, September 11

    • Gilbert Weinstein (UAB)
    Existence of a Solution of the Classical Plateau Problem (continued)
    11:25 AM in Room CH 458
  • Tuesday, September 4

    • Gilbert Weinstein (UAB)
    Existence of a Solution of the Classical Plateau Problem (continued)
    11:25 AM in Room CH 458
  • Tuesday, August 28

    • Gilbert Weinstein (UAB)
    The Classical Plateau Problem
    1:30 PM in Room CH 458