Tue, 14 Jun 2011
12:30 -
13:30
Gibson 1st Floor SR
Entropy and isometric embedding
Marshall Slemrod
(University of Wisconsin)
Abstract
The problem of isometric embedding of a Riemannian Manifold into
Euclidean space is a classical issue in differential geometry and
nonlinear PDE. In this talk, I will outline recent work my
co-workers and I have done, using ideas from continuum mechanics as a guide,
formulating the problem, and giving (we hope) some new insight
into the role of " entropy".