Morse-Theoretic Aspects of the Willmore Energy

We will present the project of using the Willmore elastic energy as a quasi-Morse function to explore the topology of immersions of the 2-sphere into Euclidean spaces and explain how this relates to the classical theory of complete minimal surfaces with finite total curvature.

This is partially a joint work in collaboration with Tristan Rivière.

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Speakers

Alexis Michelat

Affiliation

ETH Zurich