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## The Global Theory of Minimal Surfaces (Summer Graduate Program II) June 25, 2001 - July 06, 2001

Jun 25, 2001
Monday
 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM Lecture 1 - 9: Geometric measure theory and the proof of the Double Bubble Conjecture, Frank Morgan 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM Lecture 1 - 2: Geometric results in classical minimal surface theory William Meeks 01:00 PM - 02:15 PM Lecture 1 & 2: Background John McCuan 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM Lecture 1 - 5: Computational aspects of minimal surface theory Matthias Weber 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Lecture 1 & 2: Mathematica and technical computing, Paul Wellin
Jun 26, 2001
Tuesday
 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Conjugate plateau surfaces Hermann Karcher
Jun 28, 2001
Thursday
 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Topology of minimal surfaces with convex boundary Mohammad Ghomi
Jun 29, 2001
Friday
 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Background Lecture John McCuan
Jul 02, 2001
Monday
 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM Lecture 1 - 3: Applications of minimal surfaces to general relativity and Riemannian geometry Richard Schoen (Stanford University) 01:00 PM - 02:15 PM A historical survey of some aspects of minimal surfaces Robert Osserman 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM Lecture 1 - 3: Computational aspects and discrete minimal surfaces Konrad Polthier 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Singular perturbation constructions for minimal surfaces Nicolaos Kapouleas (Brown University)
Jul 03, 2001
Tuesday
 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM Lecture 1 - 3 Brian White 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM Background Lecture David Hoffman (Stanford University) 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Complete nonorientable minimal surfaces in R3 Francisco Martin
Jul 05, 2001
Thursday
 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Periodic minimal surfaces Harold Rosenberg
Jul 06, 2001
Friday
 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM Parabolicity and minimal surfaces Joaquin Perez
Jul 09, 2001
Monday
 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM Lecture 1-4: The isoperimetric problem Antonio Ros (University of Granada) 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM Flat structures Michael Wolf (Rice University) 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM Lecture 1-4: Geometric aspects of the theory of fully nonlinear elliptic equations Joel Spruck (Johns Hopkins University) 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM Some Picard theorems for minimal surfaces Francisco Lopez 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM TBA Henry Wente
Jul 10, 2001
Tuesday
 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM Moduli spaces of flat structures and period problems Michael Wolf (Rice University) 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM The flexibility of conjugate Plateau constructions Hermann Karcher 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM TBA Jaegyoung Choe
Jul 11, 2001
Wednesday
 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM Handle addition for minimal surfaces Michael Wolf (Rice University)
Jul 12, 2001
Thursday
 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM The translation invariant helicoid with handles Matthias Weber 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM A family of singly periodic minimal surfaces asymptotic to the helicoid David Hoffman (Stanford University) 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM Surgery on geometric structures and applications Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University)
Jul 13, 2001
Friday
 09:15 AM - 10:45 AM The isoperimetric problem Manuel Ritoré 10:45 AM - 01:15 PM Limits of flat structures and the embedded genus one helicoid Matthias Weber 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM Geometric Aspects of the Theory of fully nonlinear equations Bo Guan 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM Conformal type of proper minimal surfaces in Euclidean space Pascal Collin 03:45 PM - 05:00 PM Uniqueness of the Riemann minimal surfaces Joaquin Perez 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM 15 minute talks Yi Fang, M. Ghoumi, Keti Tenenblat
Jul 16, 2001
Monday
 09:15 AM - 10:45 AM Lecture 1 - 3 Harold Rosenberg 10:45 AM - 01:15 PM Lecture , I - V: Embedded minimal surfaces in a ball Bill Minicozzi 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM Lecture I - III: Construction of minimal surfaces by gluing Weierstrass representations Martin Traizet 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM Soap bubbles and Riemann surfaces Robert Kusner 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM Construction of Bryant surfaces by cousin correspondence Pascal Collin
Jul 17, 2001
Tuesday
 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM Surfaces of constant mean curvature-1 in the hyperbolic 3-space Masaaki Umehara 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM Meromorphic data... Ricardo Sa Earp
Jul 19, 2001
Thursday
 09:15 AM - 01:15 PM Lecture 1 - 2 William Meeks 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM Lecture I - III: Constructions of minimal surfaces by gluing minimal immersions Nicolaos Kapouleas (Brown University) 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM CMC-1 surfaces in hyperbolic space Frank Pacard 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM Minimal Hypersurfaces and Mean... Tom Ilmanen
Jul 20, 2001
Friday
 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM Two-dimensional minimal graphs over unbounded domains Joel Spruck (Johns Hopkins University)
Jul 23, 2001
Monday
 09:15 AM - 10:45 AM Lecture I - II: Variational problems in Lagrangian geometry: Special Lagrangian submanifolds Richard Schoen (Stanford University) 10:45 AM - 01:15 PM Lecture I - 2: Topology of minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds Joel Hass (University of California, Davis) 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM Lecture I - III: Asymptotic geometry of embedded Bryant surfaces Pascal Collin 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM Quaternionic Plucker... Franz Pedit 03:45 PM - 05:00 PM Lecture I - V: The Steiner problem in 3-dimensions and applications Joachim Rubinstein 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM 15 minute talk Valerio Batista, Remi Langevin, John McCuan
Jul 24, 2001
Tuesday
 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM Minimal Surfaces and Harmonic... Chikako Mese
Jul 26, 2001
Thursday
 09:15 AM - 10:45 AM Constructions of special Lagrangian m-folds in $$\C^m$$ Dominic Joyce 10:45 AM - 02:15 PM An overview of existence results and properties Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM Adding handles to the helicoid Alexander Bobenko 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM Computational complexity and the area of unknotting disks Joel Hass (University of California, Davis)
Jul 27, 2001
Friday
 09:15 AM - 01:15 PM Special Lagrangian fibrations and the SYZ Conjecture Dominic Joyce 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM Existence of finite topology surfaces with genus zero Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM Approaching.... Peter Topping 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM TBA William Meeks