Rina Rotman
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Title: The length of a shortest closed geodesic and
the area of a minimal surface
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Abstract: I will talk about the upper bounds for the length of a
shortest closed geodesic on a closed Riemannian manifold.  In
particular, I will talk about curvature-free upper bounds on a
manifold diffeomorphic to a 2-dimensional sphere.  I will also discuss
two curvature-free upper bounds for the minimal mass of a stationary
1-cycle, an object that is in some ways similar to a closed geodesic,
and for the area of a minimal surface. (Joint with A. Nabutovsky).