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Gordon lecture: Gerhard Huisken (U. Tubingen and MFO) | Einstein Institute of Mathematics

Gordon lecture: Gerhard Huisken (U. Tubingen and MFO)

Date: 
Wed, 15/03/202315:30-16:30
Unusual day, time and place!


Place: Israel institute of advanced studies, lecture hall 130


Title: Mean curvature encoding physical concepts in general relativity

Abstract: Just as the Laplace operator is central for many linear models describing physical phenomena the mean curvature of submanifolds is used in General Relativity to identify natural geometric coordinate systems and to encode physical concepts such as mass, center of mass and momentum in the geometric structure of Lorentzian manifolds satisfying Einstein’s equations. Advances in quasilinear elliptic and parabolic PDEs during the last decades have led to some beautiful results linking geometry, analysis and physics. The lecture describes recent progress and open challenges.