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Geometry/Physics Seminar

Title: Positivity of Quasi-local Mass
Speaker: Professor Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu
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Quasi-local mass is a quantity associated to a spacelike 2-surface in a four dimensional spacetime. Several definitions of quasi-local mass have been proposed. I will discuss the positivity of one particular quasi-local mass based on joint work with Shing-Tung Yau.
Date: Thursday, January 04, 2007
Time: 4:00pm
Where: Lunt 107
Contact Person: Kevin Costello
Contact email: costello@math.northwestern.edu
Contact Phone: 773 910 8788
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