Analysis Seminar

Date:
Dec
09
2004

Joint IAS/Princeton/Rutgers Analysis Seminar

Prescribing symmetric functions of the eigenvalues of the Ricci tensor
Matt Gursky
3:30pm|Fine Hall 214

In joint work with J. Viaclovsky, we studied the problem of prescribing symmetric functions of the eigenvalues of the Schouten tensor for a conformal metric on a compact manifold (often referred to as the "Sigma-k Yamabe problem"). This is...

Nov
18
2004

Joint IAS/Princeton/Rutgers Analysis Seminar

A Deterministic Control Based Approach to Motion by Curvature
Sylvia Serfaty
3:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

In a joint work with Bob Kohn, we give a new control-type interpretation on the level-set approach to motion by curvature and related interface motion laws. More precisely, we give a family of discrete-time, two-person games whose value functions...

Nov
11
2004

Joint IAS/Princeton/Rutgers Analysis Seminar

Asymptotically Simple Solutions of the Vacuum Einstein Equations in Even Dimensions
Michael Anderson
3:30pm|Fine Hall 214

We will discuss a new construction of space-times in the title with $\Lambda > 0$ or $\Lambda = 0$ based on solving the Cauchy problem for a conformally invariant system of equations formed from the Fefferman-Graham (ambient obstruction) tensor.