Minimal Surfaces in Negative Curvature

Speaker: Ben Lowe
Time: Friday, 03/07, 08:30 am
Location: Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/92439547729?pwd=Wr62uDCIukxKy5erL9bs3ylvIqmaUT.1

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Host: Xiaolong Han

Abstract: It follows from work by Kahn-Markovic that every closed negatively curved 3-manifold contains essential minimal surfaces in great abundance. Since then the goal of better understanding these minimal surfaces has been a focus of activity, both in analogy to the geodesic flow one dimension lower and the more positive-curvature-centric min-max theory of minimal surfaces. This talk will survey recent developments in this area, which brings together techniques from dynamical systems, geometric analysis, and hyperbolic geometry.

About the speaker: Ben is a Dickson Instructor and NSF Postdoc at the University of Chicago. Before that he was a graduate student at Princeton where my advisor was Fernando Coda Marques. His interest is in Differential Geometry, Minimal Surfaces, Hyperbolic Geometry, Dynamical Systems, and Scalar Curvature etc.