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JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


 
Formation of Singularities in Minimal Surfaces

 

Brian White

Stanford University
 
 

MIT

Thursday, May 7, 2009


Talk at 4:30 p.m. in Room 2-190

Tea from 4:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Room 2-290
Refreshments afterwards, in Room 2-290


 
 

Abstract:   The limit of a sequence of smooth embedded minimal surfaces can have singularities. What do the surfaces look like as singularities are forming? And how singular can the limit surfaces be? I will describe in a non-technical way some surprising recent developments on these questions.


 

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