Geometry Workshop Obergurgl 2021

The exterior calculus of differential forms has been an important tool in solving PDEs in geometry processing.  In this talk we expand the usage of differential forms to a whole new way of representing curves and surfaces.  By doing so we reformulate the classical nonconvex Plateau minimal surface problem into a convex optimization problem. 

Stephanie Wang is a postdoc at UC San Diego working with Prof. Albert Chern.  Her research interest is to bridge differential equations, differential geometry, and optimization theory to computer graphics.  She received her PhD degree from UCLA in 2020 with a dissertation on physics simulation of various materials using the Material Point Method.