An Invitation to Quasiconformal Geometry and Nonlinear Elasticity, spring 2010
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An Invitation to Quasiconformal Geometry and Nonlinear Elasticity, spring 2010
Lecturer
Scope
10 cu.
Type
Advanced studies
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of measure and integration and real analysis.
Foundations of functional analysis and Sobolev spaces.
Lectures
Wednesday 14-16, D123
First lecture wednesday 20.1.
No lectures on February 3 - February 17.
Next lecture: February 24.
Content
Some of the topics included will be:
- Analytical foundations of quasiregular mappings and differential forms
- Direct method of calculus of variations
- Sobolev mappings, geometry and topology
- Jacobian determinants and null Lagrangians
- Extremal mappings of energy integrals
- Free Lagrangians
Bibliography
Notes of the lectures will be provided.