The lecture will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. ET in the Mason Hall Auditorium on Friday, Nov. 5. Space is limited for in-person attendance and registration is required. Click here to register to attend in person.
In a lecture titled “Conformalized Mean Curvature Flow,” Kazhdan will revisit a well-studied problem from the mathematical community: the formations of singularities in the mean curvature flow of 2D surfaces. Exploring the flow from the perspective of computer science, he will relate the formation of singularities to a division-by-zero in the implementation. He will show that a simple algorithmic modification that removes the division-by-zero also results in a geometrically simpler flow that empirically has been shown to evolve genus zero surfaces to conformal parameterizations over the round sphere.
A live stream will be available for those unable to attend in person.