Speaker Charles M. NewmanSilver Professor of Mathematics,New York UniversityBorn in Chicago in 1946, Professor Charles M. Newman received two B.S. (1966) degrees (Mathematics and Physics) from MIT, and M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees in Physics from Princeton. His specialties are probability theory and statistical physics, with over 200 published papers in those and related areas. Beginnin...
AbstractMinimal surfaces are surfaces which locally minimize the area, and they are ubiquitous in Differential Geometry. After giving a short and biased survey on constructions of minimal surfaces, I will discuss a recent paper connecting minimal surfaces in spheres and random matrix theory. The main statement is that there exists a sequence of closed minimal surfaces in Euclidean spheres, cons...