Speaker : Professor Chun-Chi Lin (National Taiwan Normal University)
Title : Evolution of open elastic curves with fixed length and hinged ends
Time : 2013-11-25 (Mon) 16:00 - 17:00
Place : Seminar Room 617, Institute of Mathematics (NTU Campus)
Abstract: In this talk, I will present the joint work with Prof. Anna Dall'Acqua and Paola Pozzi on the -gradient flow of the elastic energy for curves in with constraints of fixed boundary points, curvature equal to zero at the boundary, and fixed total length. We prove the long time existence of smooth solutions and subconvergence to critical points. Other types of gradient flows for elastic open curves in would be discussed as well.