| Workshop on Geometric Functionals: Analysis and Applications | |
| Topic: | Singularities of Teichmueller harmonic map flow |
| Speaker: | Melanie Rupflin |
| Affiliation: | University of Oxford |
| Date: | Monday, March 4 |
| Time/Room: | 11:30am - 12:30pm/Simonyi Hall 101 |
Abstract: We discuss singularities of Teichmueller harmonic map flow, which is a geometric flow that changes maps from surfaces into branched minimal immersions, and explain in particular how winding singularities of the map component can lead to singular behaviour of the metric component.