Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


Surfaces in spacetime and quasi-local mass

Mu-Tao Wang

Columbia University

Brandeis University

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Talk at 4:30 p.m. in 317 Goldsmith Hall

Tea at 4:00 p.m. in 300 Goldsmith Hall


Abstract: I shall consider the geometry of spacetime 2-surfaces which bound spacelike hypersufaces. These surfaces are of great interest in general relativity because of the connection to the notion of gravitational energy. Several recent results from joint work with PoNing Chen and Shing-Tung Yau will be discussed.


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