09.07.2025, 10:15
– 2.09.0.17
Forschungsseminar: Gruppen und Operatoralgebren
On factoriality of the Neretin group von Neumann algebra
Basile Morando (ENS Lyon)
Alexander Friedrich
Blood cells and their iconic discoid shape can modelled by closed surfaces minimizing an associated bending energy. I will give a brief introduction to immersed surfaces and discuss what kind of functionals we consider for bending energies. Additionally, I will sketch how to obtain a minimizer of the bending energy. This naturally leads to the interesting phenomenon of bubbling, which we can think of as budding of the cell.