Add to Outlook calendar Add to Google calendar

Geometry & Topology Seminar

Title: Lagrangian mean curvature flow out of conical singularities
Speaker: Spandan Ghosh (University of Oxford)
Date: 05 January 2026
Time: 4:15 pm
Venue: LH-5, Mathematics Department

Lagrangian mean curvature flow (LMCF) is a way to deform a Lagrangian submanifold inside a Calabi–Yau manifold according to the negative gradient of the area functional. There are influential conjectures about LMCF due to Thomas–Yau and Joyce, describing the long-time behaviour of the flow, singularity formation, and how one may flow past singularities. In this talk, we will show how one may flow out of a conically singular Lagrangian by gluing in expanders asymptotic to the cone, generalizing an earlier result by Begley–Moore. We solve the problem by a direct P.D.E.-based approach, along the lines of recent work by Lira–Mazzeo–Pluda–Saez on the network flow. The main technical ingredient we use is the notion of manifolds with corners and a-corners as introduced by Joyce following earlier work of Melrose.


Contact: +91 (80) 2293 2711, +91 (80) 2293 2265 ;     E-mail: chair.math[at]iisc[dot]ac[dot]in
Last updated: 10 Jan 2026