Title: Lawson’s Conjecture and some generalizations
Speaker: Simon Brendle, Stanford Univ and Columbia Univ
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm
Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center
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Abstract: In the late 1960s, Lawson conjectured that the Clifford torus is the only embedded minimal torus in S^3. We will discuss our proof of this conjecture, as well as some extensions to Alexandrov immersions and to Weingarten surfaces.