Europe/Lisbon
Room P3.10, Mathematics Building — Online

Alberto Saldaña

Alberto Saldaña, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
From competing species to nodal solutions of the Yamabe problem.

What is the relationship between wolves fighting and the Poincaré conjecture? These two concepts seem to have nothing in common, but in this talk we will establish a close link by relating three mathematical objects: the Yamabe equation, competitive systems (that model the interaction between two species), and optimal partitions of the sphere. This is joint work with Mónica Clapp and Andrzej Szulkin.