14.01.2026, 14:00 - 15:15
– Campus Golm, Building 9, Room 2.22 and via Zoom
Institutskolloquium
Getting to the chore of things
Christian Mercat (Claude Bernard University Lyon 1)
Claudia Grabs
The total elastic energy is an extrinsic geometric functional for an embedding of some body manifold into an ambient space. We want to compute the first and second variation of this extrinsic geometric functional.