Video Lectures

I will discuss some geometric inequalities that hold on Riemannian 2-disks and 2-spheres.

For example, I will prove that on any Riemannian 2-sphere there M exist at least three simple periodic geodesics of length at most 20d, where d is the diameter...

We answer a 1982 conjecture of Erd&‌#337;s and Simonovits about the growth of number of $k$-walks in a graph, which incidentally was studied earlier by Blakley and Dixon in 1966. We prove this conjecture in a more general setup than the earlier...

Abstract: Uryson k-width of a metric space X measures how close X is to being k-dimensional. Several years ago Larry Guth proved that if M is a closed n-dimensional manifold, and the volume of each ball of radius 1 in M does not exceed a certain...

Abstract: For surfaces immersed into a compact Riemannian manifold, we consider the curvature functional given by the $L^2$ integral of the second fundamental form. We discuss an an area bound in terms of that functional, with application to the...

Abstract: We present new-curvature one-cycle sweepout estimates in Riemannian geometry, both on surfaces and in higher dimension. More precisely, we derive upper bounds on the length of one-parameter families of one-cycles sweeping out essential...

Abstract : It is a joint work with G. Courtois, S. Gallot and A.Sambusetti. We prove a compactness theorem for metric spaces with anupper bound on the entropy and other conditions that will be discussed.Several finiteness results will be drawn. It...

Abstract: For a given finite subset S of a compact Riemannian manifold (M; g) whose Schouten curvature tensor belongs to a given cone, we establish a necessary and
sufficient condition for the existence and uniqueness of a conformal metric on $M...

Abstract: It is a basic open question in geometric measure theory to understand regularity of a stationary integral varifold. Even a.e. regularity remains an open question. The central issue is analyzing the varifold near a point Z with a tangent...

Abstract: Let M be a compact Riemannian manifold. Morse theory for the energy function on the free loopspace LM of M gives a link between geometry and topology, between the growth of the index of the iterates of closed geodesics on M, and the...