MATRIX-SMRI Symposium: Singularities in Geometric Flows: An Ancient Perspective Joint Symposium, 4 - 14 January 2022 Week 1: On-site at MATRIX, Creswick Week 2: Online via Zoom The symposium will focus on exciting recent developments in the analysis of geometric flows via soliton and ancient solutions, centred around talks by William P. Minicozzi II (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Natasa Sesum (Rutgers University). William P. Minicozzi II is the Singer Professor of Mathematics at MIT. Throughout an enduring collaboration with Tobias H. Colding, he has resolved a number of major open problems in several areas of geometric analysis. Colding and Minicozzi received jointly the AMS Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry in 2010 for major breakthroughs on the structure of embedded minimal surfaces. He gave an invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006. Natasa Sesum has made a number of groundbreaking contributions to the analysis of singularities in geometric evolution equations. Her remarkable work with Angenent, Daskalopoulos and others provide the first general classification results for ancient solutions. Natasa was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. The symposium will also feature thematic online lecture sessions, on-site discussion workshops and online open problem sessions with the chairs. The first week’s program will take place on-site at MATRIX, Creswick and the second week’s program to be held online. Participation at MATRIX is by invitation only. For more information, please visit the MATRIX Symposium homepage: https://bit.ly/3nnggxb Week 2 - Online registration: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kf-usqDgrHd12jliaw4SWsnR5XhpT5tie Speakers: Benjamin Andrews Felix Schulze Huy The Nguyen Natasa Sesum Theodora Bourni Robert Haslhofer William P. Minicozzi, II Christos Mantoulidis Nick Edelen There will also be online talks from the following four speakers during the first week: Lu Wang Kyeongsu Choi Brett Kotschwar Otis Chodosh Schedule: (green = online) https://www.matrix-inst.org.au/wp_Matrix2016/wp-content/uploads/2022/2022_01_MATRIX-SMRI_Zhu/V1_Zhu_MATRIX-wk1-2.png