Seminar series
Date
Tue, 14 Jun 2011
Time
12:30 -
13:30
Location
Gibson 1st Floor SR
Speaker
Marshall Slemrod
Organisation
University of Wisconsin
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".