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Title:
Morse-Theoretic Aspects of the Willmore Energy

Speaker:
Alexis Michelat

Abstract:
We will present the project of using the Willmore elastic energy as a quasi-Morse function to explore the topology of immersions of the 2-sphere into Euclidean spaces and explain how this relates to the classical theory of complete minimal surfaces with finite total curvature. This is partially a joint work in collaboration with Tristan Rivière.

Link:
https://www.ias.edu/video/varimethodsgeo/2018/1113-AlexisMichelat