Geometric Analysis Seminar

Fall 2017

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Thursdays 11:00 am – 12:00 pm in 258 Hayes-Healy.

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Schedule

We will be following Chapter 1 from Colding-Minicozzi's A Course in Minimal Surfaces.

• August 31
  Aaron Tyrrell - The minimal surface equation (§ 1.1)

• September 7
  Ethan Addison - Geometry of submanifolds, first variational formula (§ 1.2, 1.3)

• September 14
  Adam Moreno - Consequences of the first variational formula (§ 3.1)

• September 21
  Samuel Perez-Ayala - The monotonicity formula (§ 3.2)

• September 28
  Marco Radeschi - Extended monotonicity (§ 1.3 in White's notes)

• October 5
  Shih-Kai Chiu - The Gauss map (§ 4)

• October 12
  Shih-Kai Chiu - Bernstein's Theorem (§ 5)

• October 19
  Fall break

• October 24 (Tuesday), 9:30-10:50, room 125 (special place and time)
  Shih-Kai Chiu - Fredholm theory on manifolds with cylindrical ends

• November 2
  Yichao Li - The strong maximum principle (§ 7)

• November 9
  Xiaoxiao Li - The second variational formula (§ 8.1)

• November 16
  No seminar

• November 23
  Thanksgiving

• November 30
  No seminar

• December 7
  Xiaoxiao Li - Bernstein's Theorem (J. Simons - Minimal varieties in Riemannian manifolds)

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Contact Gábor Székelyhidi with any questions or suggestions.