Harmonic maps and rigidity
Speaker:
Chikako Mese, Johns Hopkins University
Date and Time:
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 - 2:00pm to 2:50pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230 or online at https://zoom.us/j/97517027791
Abstract:
Harmonic maps are generalizations of harmonic functions or harmonic 1-forms. In this talk, we focus on harmonic maps into non-positively curved spaces. As an application, we discuss a harmonic maps approach to geometric and holomorphic rigidity problems.