Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

André Neves, Princeton University & Instituto Superior Técnico
Singularities of Lagrangian mean curvature flow

I will talk about the possibilities of using mean curvature flow in order to deform a Lagrangian submanifold into an area-minimizing Lagrangian (known also as Special Lagrangian). More precisely, I will show that finite time singularities are unavoidable, i.e., they occur for a large class of "stable" initial conditions. Then, I will give the optimal theorem regarding the structure of singularities.