Recent Developments in Geometric Measure theory and its Applications

March 17-20, 2022
Rice University, Houston, Texas

Program and Abstracts

Thursday, March 17
12:30-1:30pm Registration & Welcome Refreshments   Herman Brown Hall 438
1:40-2:35pm Tristan Rivière Minmax Hierarchies, Minimizing fibrations and Minimal Surfaces Keck 100
2:40-3:00pm Break   Keck Hall Portico
3:00-3:55pm Paulo Lima-Filho Current transforms and multiplicative properties of higher regulators Keck Hall 100
4:00-4:10pm Break   Keck Hall Portico
4:10-5:05pm Yoshi Tonegawa (Remote)  Existence of canonical multi-phase mean curvature flow Keck 100
5:10-5:30pm Tree Dedication Outside of Herman Brown 
5:30-6:00pm Poster Session & Reception Brochstein Pavilion

Friday, March 18
9:00-9:30 am Continental Breakfast   Keck Hall Portico
9:30am-10:25am Thierry DePauw (Remote) Keck 100
10:30am-10:50am Break   Keck Hall Portico
10:50am-11:45am Antoine Song  The spherical Plateau problem Keck 100 
11:45-2:00pm Lunch Keck Hall Portico
2:00-2:55pm David Kinderlehrer  Microstructure meets Boltzmann Keck 100 
3:-3:20pm Break Keck Hall Portico
3:20-4:15pm Brian White Keck 100
4:20-4:40pm Break   Keck Hall Portico
4:40-5:30pm Fanghua Lin Select Works of Robert Hardt Keck 100
6:30-8:45pm Banquet Dinner
Cost: $25 per person
Cash/Check only

Dimassi's Mediterranean Buffet
*Vegetarian & Vegan Options Available

 Grand Hall, Rice Memorial Center 

Saturday, March 19
9:00-9:30 am Continental Breakfast   Keck Hall Portico
9:30am-10:25am Wilfrid Gangbo Keck 100 
10:30am-10:50am Break   Keck Hall Portico 
10:50am-11:45am  Lu Wang Hypersurfaces of low entropy are isotopically trivial   Keck 100
11:50-2:10pm Lunch  
2:10-3:05pm Bill Minicozzi   Keck 100 
3:10-3:35pm Break Keck Hall Portico
3:35-4:30pm  Andre Neves Geodesics and minimal surfaces  Keck 100 

Sunday, March 20
8:30-9:00am Continental Breakfast   Keck Hall Portico
9:00-9:55am Irene Fonseca Phase Separation in Heterogeneous Media Keck 100 
9:55-10:15am Break Keck Hall Portico
10:15am-11:10am Qing Han Singular harmonic maps asymptotic to extreme Kerr maps and applications Keck 100
11:15am-12:10pm Tatiana Toro Approximations & Parametrizations Keck 100