Existence of genus 2 minimal surfaces in 3-spheres

Seminar: 
Geometric Analysis and Application
Event time: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:45pm
Location: 
KT 906
Speaker: 
Zhihan Wang
Speaker affiliation: 
Cornell University
Event description: 

In the past decades, we have witnessed rapid development in the construction of minimal surfaces with controlled topology by Simon-Smith min-max theory. In this talk, I’ll discuss the existence of a number of genus 2 minimal surfaces in a 3-sphere with a positive-Ricci-curved metric. This is based on the recent work joint with Adrian Chu and Yangyang Li.