Speaker: 

Professor Franz Pedit

Institution: 

UMass Amherst and University of Tuebingen

Time: 

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 4:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

Surfaces of constant mean curvature (CMC) are a prime example of an integrable system. We will focus on the classification of compact CMC surfaces and outline the complete classification in genus one. Flows on the moduli space of CMC cylinders will provide a fine structure relating CMC tori to closed curves in 3-space, another well known integrable system. Computer images and experiments will be used to demonstrate the theoretical concepts.