{"id":413,"date":"2023-02-06T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T18:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mgsa\/?page_id=413"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:42:02","slug":"graduate-student-geometry-and-analysis-seminar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mgsa\/graduate-student-geometry-and-analysis-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Student Geometry and Analysis Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This semester we meet on Friday, 4-5 PM in Hayes-Healy 258 (Seminar Room). The schedule below will have the most up-to-date information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are able to accommodate remote as well as in-person speakers and viewers! If you would like to be added to the email list for this seminar or contribute a talk, please contact Chen-Kuan Lee (clee36 [at] nd [dot] edu) and\/or Khoi Nguyen (knguye22 [at] nd [dot] edu)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2026 Talks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>Speaker<\/strong><\/td>Title<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
4\/24\/2026<\/td>Feibai Ren<\/td>Structure of Singular Sets<\/td><\/tr>
4\/17\/2026<\/td>Nan Wu<\/td>Loewner-Nirenberg problem on Lipschitz domain<\/td><\/tr>
4\/10\/2026<\/td>Daniel Villanueva-Vega<\/td>From Geodesics to Reeb Orbits: The Weinstein Conjecture<\/td><\/tr>
3\/27\/2026<\/td>Luis Atzin Franco Reyna<\/td>Entire area-minimizing surfaces in R4<\/td><\/tr>
3\/20\/2026<\/td>Chen-Kuan Lee<\/td>The Bernstein Problem and Schoen\u2013Simon\u2013Yau Curvature Estimate<\/td><\/tr>
3\/06\/2026<\/td>Malcolm Hoffman<\/td>Kakeya Needle Sets and the Multiplier Problem for the Ball<\/td><\/tr>
2\/27\/2026<\/td>Akash Narayanan<\/td>Harmonic Maps and Teichm\u00fcller Theory<\/td><\/tr>
2\/20\/2026<\/td>Khoi Nguyen<\/td>Renormalized area of minimal surfaces of Poincar\u00e9 Einstein manifolds and its variation<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fall 2025 Talks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>Speaker<\/strong><\/td>Title<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
11\/21\/2025<\/td>Feibai Ren<\/td>Frequency and Size of Nodal Sets<\/td><\/tr>
11\/14\/2025<\/td>Malcolm Hoffman<\/td>Ambient and Poincar\u00e9 Metrics<\/td><\/tr>
11\/07\/2025<\/td>Daniel Villanueva-Vega<\/td>What the \u201ch\u201d is the h-Principle?<\/td><\/tr>
10\/31\/2025<\/td>Jason Mitrovich<\/td>A Derivation of the Black-Scholes Equation<\/td><\/tr>
10\/17\/2025<\/td>Luis Atzin Franco Reyna<\/td>Bounding Topology of 2-dimensional Area-Minimizing Surfaces<\/td><\/tr>
10\/10\/2025<\/td>Vishnu Nandakumaran<\/td>Uniqueness in the Plateau problem near Quadratic cones<\/td><\/tr>
10\/03\/2025<\/td>Chen-Kuan Lee<\/td>Uniqueness in the Plateau Problem for Calibrated Currents<\/td><\/tr>
9\/26\/2025<\/td>Stephen Zhou<\/td>The Loewner\u2013Nirenberg Problem in Conical Domains with Prescribed Singularities<\/td><\/tr>
9\/19\/2025<\/td>Mattie Ji<\/td>Elements of Hamiltonian Floer Homology<\/td><\/tr>
9\/12\/2025<\/td>Mattie Ji<\/td>An Integration Calculus based on the Euler Characteristics<\/td><\/tr>
9\/05\/2025<\/td>Mattie Ji<\/td>Minimal Surface Approach to 3-Manifold Topology<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Spring 2025 Talks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>Speaker<\/strong><\/td>Title<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
4\/25\/2025<\/td>Nan Wu<\/td>Introduction to the fourth order Willmore energy<\/td><\/tr>
4\/11\/2025<\/td>Daniel Villanueva-Vega <\/td>Holomorphic Curves in Symplectic Manifolds<\/td><\/tr>
4\/4\/2025<\/td>Jinxuan Chen<\/td>Guth and Liokumovich\u2019s Proof of Almgren\u2019s Isomorphism Theorem<\/td><\/tr>
3\/28\/2025<\/td>Jason Mitrovich<\/td>An Introduction to Ergodic Theory<\/td><\/tr>
3\/21\/2025<\/td>Luis Aztin Franco Reyna<\/td>The Spherical Bernstein Problem<\/td><\/tr>
3\/07\/2025<\/td>Chen-Kuan Lee<\/td>Perturbations of a minimal surface with triple junctions in R2<\/sup>xS1<\/sup><\/td><\/tr>
2\/28\/2025<\/td>Khoi Nguyen <\/td>An introduction to Poincare-Einstein manifolds<\/td><\/tr>
2\/14\/2025<\/td>Jui-Yun Hung<\/td>Asymptotic Analysis of Gradient Systems<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fall 2024 Talks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>Speaker<\/strong><\/td>Title<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
12\/06\/2024<\/td>Nan Wu<\/td>Improved Moser-Trudinger-Onofri Inequality under Constraints<\/td><\/tr>
11\/22\/2024<\/td>Vishnu Nandakumaran<\/td> Minimal surfaces near Hardt-Simon surfaces<\/td><\/tr>
11\/15\/2024<\/td>Stephen Zhou<\/td>The Loewner-Nirenberg Problem in Cones<\/td><\/tr>
11\/08\/2024<\/td>Feibai Ren<\/td>A Moving Planes Method for Nonlinear Equations<\/td><\/tr>
11\/01\/2024<\/td>Jui-Yun Hung<\/td>Asymptotic Analysis of Gradient Systems<\/td><\/tr>
10\/18\/2024<\/td>Chen-Kuan Lee<\/td>The Space of Minimal Submanifolds for Varying Riemannian Metric<\/td><\/tr>
10\/11\/2024<\/td>Luis Atzin Franco Reyna <\/td>Uniqueness of Tangent Cones for 2 Dimensional Minimizers<\/td><\/tr>
10\/04\/2024<\/td>Katie Gravel (U Chicago)<\/td>The Penrose Inequality in Mathematical Relativity<\/td><\/tr>
9\/27\/2024<\/td>Jason Mitrovich<\/td>The Structure Theorem in Geometric Measure Theory<\/td><\/tr>
9\/20\/2024<\/td>Khoi Nguyen <\/td>An introduction to Einstein metrics<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2024 Talks <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>Speaker<\/strong><\/td>Title<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
4\/19\/2024<\/td>Brandon Fu<\/td>A Concentration Inequality <\/td><\/tr>
3\/22\/2024<\/td>Jui-Yun Hung <\/td>A Proof of Green\u2019s Theorem<\/td><\/tr>
3\/01\/2024<\/td>Luis Atzin Franco Reyna <\/td>Gromov\u2019s Pre-Compactness Theorem<\/td><\/tr>
2\/23\/2024<\/td>Brandon Fu<\/td>The Kac-Rice Formula and Applications <\/td><\/tr>
2\/16\/2024<\/td>Jason Mitrovich<\/td>The Mountain Pass Theorem and Semilinear Equations<\/td><\/tr>
2\/02\/2024<\/td>Khoi Nguyen <\/td>Urbano’s Theorem – The Special Feature of the Clifford Torus (Revised)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Past Talks (Spring and Fall 2023)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>Speaker<\/strong><\/td>Title<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
12\/13\/2023<\/td>Nan Wu<\/td>Introduction to Gromov-Lawson Construction<\/td><\/tr>
11\/29\/2023<\/td>Khoi Nguyen<\/td>Urbano’s Theorem – The Special Feature of the Clifford Torus<\/td><\/tr>
11\/08\/2023<\/td>Luis Atzin Franco Reyna<\/td>Classification of Nonnegatively Curved 4-Manifolds<\/td><\/tr>
10\/25\/2023<\/td>Jui-Yun Hung<\/td>$L^p$-Estimates for the Newtonian Potential <\/td><\/tr>
10\/11\/2023<\/td>Chen-Kuan Lee<\/td>Self-Similar Solutions to Mean Curvature Flow<\/td><\/tr>
9\/27\/2023<\/td>Jason Mitrovich<\/td>An Introduction to Soap Films – Rado’s Solution to the Plateau Problem<\/td><\/tr>
9\/13\/2023<\/td>Ilya Marchenka<\/td>Asymptotic Expansions at Infinity for Solutions of Some Nonlinear Geometric PDE’s in Exterior Domains<\/td><\/tr>
2\/09\/2023<\/td>Kai-Wei Zhao<\/td>Positive Mass Theorem <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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