Events: detail
Variational aspects of biharmonic maps
- Hosted by:
- Imperial College London
- Speaker:
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Roger Moser, Bath
- Starts:
- May 18, 2007 at 01:30 pm
- Ends:
- May 18, 2007 at 02:30 pm
- Location:
- Imperial College London Department of Mathematics , Blackett Laboratory, 741, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
(Intrinsic) biharmonic maps are the critical points of a second order functional for maps between Riemannian manifolds. At a first glance, this looks like a typical variational problem, but when we want to apply methods from the calculus of variations, we face a number of difficulties caused by the structure of the functional. We discuss an approach to reconcile the methods from the calculus of variations with the structure of the problem, using tools from geometric measure theory.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
For more information
- Contact person:
- Mark Haskins
- Email:
- m.haskins [ at ] imperial.ac.uk
- Website:
- Variational aspects of biharmonic maps
