Séminaires : Phd Seminar - Séminaire des doctorant.e.s

Le séminaire des doctorant.e.s est l'occasion pour les doctorant.e.s de présenter des résultats et des problématiques dignes d'intérêt devant un public de non-spécialistes. L'ambiance y est informelle ; poser des questions naïves est encouragé, et les questions moins naïves sont bienvenues dans la mesure où elles n'entravent pas le bon déroulement de l'exposé.

Chaque jeudi à 18h, en alternance entre Jussieu et Sophie Germain.

The PhD seminar is an opportnuity for PhD students to present results and topics worthy of interest in front of a non-specialist audience. The mood is informal ; asking naive questions is highly encouraged and less naive questions are also welcomed, as long as they don't intefere with the smoothness of the talk.

Every Thursday at 6pm, alternating between Jussieu and Sophie Germain.

During the 19th century, Joseph Plateau studied phenomena of capillary action and surface tension. As a result, he stipulated that soap films can be described by surfaces minimizing the area among all the surfaces having the same boundary. The resolution of this question in arbitrary dimension gave birth to the geometric measure theory during the 20th century, which formalizes the right setting. In this talk, I will give an overview of different approaches and tools that have been developed in order to study the existence and the regularity of such surfaces.