Speaker:
Professor Sigurd Angenent
Institution:
University of Wisconsin Madison
Time:
Friday, March 2, 2007 - 4:00pm
Location:
MSTB 254
I will give a survey of what is known at present concerning the way solutions to the Porous medium equation "fill holes" in their support. There turn out to be some surprising similarities with Euclidean and Affine Curve Shortening.