Venue: Room 09 at Quan Zhai, BICMR

Time: Monday, Mar. 30 , 15:30-17:30

Speaker: Ernst Kuwert (University of Freiburg)

Abstract: For a two-dimensional surface the Willmore functional is the $L^2$ integral of its mean curvature. We review some variational problems involving the Willmore functional that have been considered in the last years.