MATRIX-SMRI Symposium: Singularities in Geometric Flows

MATRIX-SMRI Symposium: 
Singularities in Geometric Flows: An Ancient Perspective 

Joint Symposium, 4 - 14 January 2022 
Week 1: On-site at MATRIX, Creswick 
Week 2: Online via Zoom 

The symposium will focus on exciting recent developments in the analysis of geometric
flows via soliton and ancient solutions, centred around talks by William P.  Minicozzi
II (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Natasa Sesum (Rutgers University).  

William P.  Minicozzi II is the Singer Professor of Mathematics at MIT.  Throughout an
enduring collaboration with Tobias H.  Colding, he has resolved a number of major open
problems in several areas of geometric analysis.  Colding and Minicozzi received jointly
the AMS Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry in 2010 for major breakthroughs on the structure
of embedded minimal surfaces.  He gave an invited address at the International Congress
of Mathematicians in 2006.  

Natasa Sesum has made a number of groundbreaking contributions to the analysis of
singularities in geometric evolution equations.  Her remarkable work with Angenent,
Daskalopoulos and others provide the first general classification results for ancient
solutions.  Natasa was an invited speaker at the International Congress of
Mathematicians in 2014.  In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the American
Mathematical Society.  

The symposium will also feature thematic online lecture sessions, on-site discussion
workshops and online open problem sessions with the chairs.  

The first week’s program will take place on-site at MATRIX, Creswick and the second
week’s program to be held online.  Participation at MATRIX is by invitation only.  For
more information, please visit the MATRIX Symposium homepage: https://bit.ly/3nnggxb 

Week 2 - Online registration:
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kf-usqDgrHd12jliaw4SWsnR5XhpT5tie

Speakers:
Benjamin Andrews 
Felix Schulze 
Huy The Nguyen 
Natasa Sesum 
Theodora Bourni 
Robert Haslhofer 
William P. Minicozzi, II 
Christos Mantoulidis 
Nick Edelen 
There will also be online talks from the following four speakers during the first week:
Lu Wang 
Kyeongsu Choi
Brett Kotschwar 
Otis Chodosh 

Schedule: (green = online)
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