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4-9-2007

Brief History of GMT with stories; A recent result as motivation; An overview of a few ideas from GMT -- conceptual snapshots.

4-16-2007

"Normal and Rectifiable Currents", Part 1; Why currents and varifolds?; what are currents and varifolds?; n-vectors, n-covectors, n-forms; boundaries.

4-23-2007

"Normal and Rectifiable Currents", Part 2 : addendum to last lecture; Mass; compactness; representation by integration; a zoo of currents;

4-30-2007

We jump back to Lipschitz maps, rectifiable sets, the area and coarea formulas, a brief mention of Marstrand's and Preiss' theorems and then ahead to minimal surfaces and isoperimetric inequalities.

5-7-2007

We will start with two addendums -- one on mean curvature and stationary surfaces and one on calibrations. Then we will cover products of currents, push forward of a current.

5-14-2007

Homotopy Formula, Cones, Deformation theorem: an initial look.

5-21-2007

Deformation theorem, Isoperimetric Inequality, compactness and existence of area-minimizing surfaces.

5-28-2007

National Holiday (Memorial Day)

6-4-2007

Motivation for Densities, Properties of Densities, Rectifiable sets have approximate tangents almost everywhere