speaker Andreas Savvas-Halilaj (University of Ioannina)

Title: Minimal maps, MCF and isotopy problems.

Abstract: I will discuss the mean curvature flow (MCF) of graphical submanifolds generated by smooth maps between Riemannian manifolds. I will demonstrate applications related to the homotopy type of smooth maps between compact manifolds. I will also show some rigidity results concerning the Hopf fibrations.