Title: An introduction to mean curvature flow

Abstract: The mean curvature flow can be thought of as the gradient flow for the area functional, on the space of submanifolds. In this talk I will introduce some of the basic ideas related to the mean curvature of hypersurfaces in Euclidean space, and I will describe some of the main questions.

The speaker is also our colloquium speaker the same day at 3:30 and all are welcome to attend.