PDE Seminar| Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Time：Thursday, 22:00-22:50 April 30th, 2020
Location：Zoom
Speaker: Camillo De Lellis, IAS, Princeton
Abstract: The Plateau problem, named by Henry Lebesgue after the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau, consists in finding the surface of least area which spans a given contour.
In order to tackle such question, generations of mathematicians have investigated the very fundamental notions of ``surface'', ``boundary'' and ``area'', proposing a variety of different theories.
In this talk I will give a brief and intuitive exposition of an approach to these concepts introduced by Federer and Fleming in the 60es after the pioneering work of De Giorgi in the 50es. I will then discuss an open question relating the shapes of the contour and that of the minimizer, posed by Almgren in the early eighties and recently solved in a joint work with Guido de Philippis, Jonas Hirsch and Annalisa Massaccesi.
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