Student Analysis Date:  Thursday, October 18, 2012 Location:  2866 East Hall (5:10 PM to 6:00 PM) Title:  A Deterministic Two-Person Game for Motion by Curvature Abstract:   The usual interpretation for motion by curvature involves steepest descent on the perimeter functional. I will present a result by Robert Kohn (2005) which gives an entirely different interpretation involving the value function of a simple deterministic two-person game. The results are surprising as the value function of a deterministic game is usually the solution of a *first-order* Hamilton-Jacobi PDE. Speaker:  Jeff Calder Institution:  University of Michigan Event Organizer:        Edit this event (login required). Add new event (login required). For access requests and instructions, contact math-webmaster@umich.edu Back to previous page Back to UM Math seminars/events page.