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# Differential Geometry (Leader: Dr. Diego Ricciotti <ricciotti (at) usf.edu>document.write('<a href="mai' + 'lto:' + 'ricciotti' + '&#64;' + 'usf.edu' + '">Dr. Diego Ricciotti</a>');)

## Friday, February 15, 2019

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Plates with incompatible prestrain and non-euclidean elasticity
Diego Ricciotti
12:30pm-1:30pm
CMC 109

Abstract

We examine a model (coming from non-Euclidean elasticity) for thin plates that become internally prestrained in the absence of external forces or imposed boundary conditions. Examples of this phenomena occur in nature for instance in growing leaves or tissues. We describe a derivation of a 2D model arising as $$\Gamma$$-limit of a 3D model as the thickness parameter approaches zero, under appropriate scalings of the energy in terms of the plate's thickness.

## Friday, February 8, 2019

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Speaker
Time
Place

Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Partial Differential Equations, Part IV
Thomas Bieske
12:30pm-1:30pm
CMC 109

## Friday, February 1, 2019

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Speaker
Time
Place

Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Partial Differential Equations, Part III
Thomas Bieske
12:30pm-1:30pm
CMC 109

## Friday, January 25, 2019

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Speaker
Time
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Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Partial Differential Equations, Part II
Thomas Bieske
12:30pm-1:30pm
CMC 109

## Friday, January 18, 2019

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Speaker
Time
Place

Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Partial Differential Equations
Thomas Bieske
12:30pm-1:30pm
CMC 109

Abstract

We examine properties of solutions to the eikonal and infinite Laplace equations in sub-Riemannian spaces. The interplay between the underlying geometry and these solutions will also be explored.