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Gaussian processes (GPs) are very widely used for modeling of unknown functions or surfaces in applications ranging from regression to classification to spatial processes. Although there is an increasingly vast literature on applications,…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-06-28 Lizhen Lin , Mu Niu , Pokman Cheung , David Dunson

These notes were intended as support material for a minicourse on Anosov flows in the conference "Symplectic geometry and Anosov flows'' which took place in Heidelberg in July 2024 organized by Peter Albers, Jonathan Bowden and Agust\'in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Rafael Potrie

This essay, an excerpt of the author's Ph.D. in Philosophy of mathematics (2012) thought of as being a companion to recent discoveries of new explicit Cartan geometry curvatures, analyzes how Gauss, after having devised the isometrically…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Joel Merker

Traditional approaches to the study of the dynamics of spacetime curvature in a very real sense hide the intricacies of the nonlinear regime. Whether it be huge formulae, or mountains of numerical data, standard methods of presentation make…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Kayll Lake

In this text we outline the major techniques, concepts and results in mean curvature flow with a focus on higher codimension. In addition we include a few novel results and some material that cannot be found elsewhere.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Knut Smoczyk

This text is based on a series of three expository lectures on a variety of topics related to "thin orbits," as delivered at Durham University's Easter School on "Dynamics and Analytic Number Theory" in April 2014. The first lecture reviews…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Alex Kontorovich

A brief history of the investigation of the Weil-Petersson curvature and a summary of Teichm\"{u}ller theory are provided. A report is presented on the program to describe an intrinsic geometry with the Weil-Petersson metric and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-23 Scott A. Wolpert

The main result of this paper is a convexity estimate for translating solitons of extrinsic geometric flows which evolve under a $1$-homogeneous concave function in the principal curvatures. In addition, we show examples of these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Jose Torres Santaella

The aim in these lectures is to study singularity formation, nonuniqueness, and topological change in motion by mean curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Tom Ilmanen

In this paper, for a given compact 3-manifold with an initial Riemannian metric and a symmetric tensor, we establish the short-time existence and uniqueness theorem for extension of cross curvature flow. We give an example of this flow on…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Shahroud Azami

Utilizing recently developed abstract notions of sectional curvature, we introduce a method for constructing a curvature-based geometric profile of discrete metric spaces. The curvature concept that we use here captures the metric relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Charlotte Beylier , Parvaneh Joharinad , Jürgen Jost , Nahid Torbati

We study the geometric flow of a planar curve driven by its curvature and the normal derivative of its capacity potential. Under a convexity condition that is natural to our problem, we establish long term existence and large time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Luis Caffarelli , Hui Yu

In this paper, the general formulation for inextensible flows of curves on oriented surface in $\mathbb{R}^3 $ is investigated. The necessary and sufficient conditions for inextensible curve flow lying an oriented surface are expressed as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Onder Gokmen Yildiz , Soley Ersoy , Melek Masal

The paper studies a curvature flow linked to the physical phenomenon of wound closure. Under the flow we show that a closed, initially convex or close-to-convex curve shrinks to a round point in finite time. We also study the singularity,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Shuhui He , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

This paper is an introduction to the modelling of viscoelastic fluids, with an emphasis on micro-macro (or multiscale) models. Some elements of mathematical and numerical analysis are provided. These notes closely follow the lectures…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-03 C. Le Bris , T. Lelièvre

This short article is a brief account of the usage of fourth-order curvature flow in surface modelling.

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Ty Kang

Extrinsic Geometric Flow (EGF) for a codimension-one foliation has been recently introduced by authors as deformations of Riemannian metrics subject to quantities expressed in terms of its second fundamental form. In the paper we introduce…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-21 Vladimir Rovenski , Pawel Walczak

Development of outreach skills is critical for researchers when communicating their work to non-expert audiences. However, due to the lack of formal training, researchers are typically unaware of the benefits of outreach training and often…

In this article, using the generalized Newton transformation, we define higher order mean curvatures of distributions of arbitrary codimension and we show that they agree with the ones from Brito and Naveira (Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 18,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-14 Krzysztof Andrzejewski , Pawel Walczak

Geometric data analysis and learning has emerged as a distinct and rapidly developing research area, increasingly recognized for its effectiveness across diverse applications. At the heart of this field lies curvature, a powerful and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yasharth Yadav , Kelin Xia