Recent Understanding in Harmonic Maps, December 6, 2012 Nov 28, 2012

Harmonic maps are mappings between Riemannian manifolds which are critical points of the Dirichlet energy functional. Examples of harmonic maps include geodesics, harmonic functions, minimal surfaces, and many others. Applications of harmonic maps are vast, and they remain an intensely active topic of research for both pure and applied mathematics. This one-day event, the eighth of a symposium series at the Graduate Center of CUNY, aims to explore recent developments and future directions in harmonic map theory For more details, check http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/~huang/harmonic.pdf