Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

Breakfast can wait

Mat Langford

created by cabezas-rivas on 01 Mar 2026

6 mar 2026 -- 11:00   [open in google calendar]

BANG (Bridging ANalysis & Geometry) online seminar

organized by Esther Cabezas-Rivas & Salvador Moll (Universitat de València)

Abstract.

I will recall the recipe for the construction of the O(n) x O(1)-symmetric "ancient pancake" solution to the mean curvature flow (joint with Bourni and Tinaglia), and then show how to join two pancakes together with a neck to form a "pancake stack" (joint with Mramor and Yudowitz). Whereas the ancient pancake admits a very precise description, the somewhat different approach employed to construct the pancake stack does not yield very precise information, leaving some interesting questions open.