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Abstract: Consider an area minimizing integral current $T$ which has a smooth boundary $\Gamma$ of multiplicity $1$ in some smooth Riemannian ambient manifold $\Sigma$. If the current has codimension $1$ a famous work of Hardt and Simon gives full...

Abstract: The Clifford torus is the simplest nontotally geodesic minimal surface in S^3. It is a product surface, it is helicoidal, and it is a solution obtained by separation of variables. We will show that there are more minimal submanifolds with...

Natural gradient descent holds the potential to speed up training of neural networks by correcting for the problem geometry and achieving desirable invariance properties. I’ll present Kronecker-Factored Approximate Curvature (K-FAC), a scalable...

Abstract: The Allen-Cahn equation behaves as a desingularization of the area functional. This allows for a PDE approach to the construction of minimal hypersurfaces in closed Riemannian manifolds. After presenting and overview of the subject, I will...

The Erdos-Rado sunflower conjecture is one of the tantalizing open problems in combinatorics. In my talk, I will describe several attempts on how to get improved bounds for it. These will lead to surprising connections with several other...

The workshop focused on recent advances related to the variational theory of the area functional and regularity of minimal varieties. Topics included minimal surfaces, constant mean curvature surfaces, the...

Abstract: This will be an overview of spacetime aspects of mean curvature includingtrapped surfaces, marginally outer trapped surfaces, and the role that they playin the spacetime positive energy theorem and Penrose inequality. We willsurvey the...