Speaker: Jürgen Jost
Abstract: The Bernstein and Dirichlet problems for minimal graphs in Euclidean spaces of arbitrary dimension and codimension have caused some of the most important mathematical developments in the fields of the calculus of variations, nonlinear geometric PDEs and geometric measure theory. I shall report the current state and new results for those problems.
Time: 10:30-11:30, March 28, 2026
Location: 18F Auditorium, SIMIS
Zoom Meeting ID: 898 3978 2072 (Passcode: 303309)
Introduction to The Speaker: Professor Jürgen Jost is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and an internationally renowned mathematician. He has made significant contributions to numerous fields within geometric analysis and differential geometry, including the theory of harmonic maps and its applications in geometry and mathematical physics, minimal submanifolds, Kähler geometry, the geometry of metric spaces, and discrete geometry, and also to many applications of mathematics in other fields. He has published over 500 academic papers—including 1 in Acta Math., 3 in Invent. Math., 3 in CPAM, 2 in JEMS, and 6 in JDG—along with more than 20 monographs and over 25,000 citations. In 1996, he became a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, which has since become one of the premier mathematical research centers. His honors include an invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1986, the Leibniz Prize (Germany’s highest research award) in 1993, an ERC Advanced Grant in 2010, and the Teubner Foundation Prize in 2018. He has educated more than 60 PhD students and numerous postdocs. He served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS), was a member of the editorial board for Math. Z., and currently serves on the boards of several international journals, such as Calc. Var. and Inf. Geom., and of several book series, including Ergebnisse der Mathematik
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