New Frontiers in Curvature: Flows, General Relativity, Minimal Submanifolds, and Symmetry

Date: 19 August - 20 December 2024

Location: Simons Laufer Mathematical Research Institute

Geometry, PDE, and Relativity are subjects that have shown intriguing interactions in the past several decades, while simultaneously diverging, each with an ever growing number of branches. Recently, several major breakthroughs have been made in each of these fields using techniques and ideas from the others. 

This program is aimed at connecting various branches of Geometry, PDE, and Relativity and at enhancing collaborations across these disciplines and will include four main topics: Geometric Flows, Geometric problems in Mathematical Relativity, Global Riemannian Geometry, and Minimal Submanifolds. Specifically the program focuses on a central goal, which is to advance our knowledge toward Riemannian (sub)manifolds under geometric conditions, such as curvature lower bounds, by developing techniques in, for example, geometric flows and minimal submanifolds and further fostering new connections.

Professor André Neves (Chicago) has been appointed as a Clay Senior Scholar to participate in this program.

CMI Enhancement and Partnership Program.