Speaker: 

Dan Knopf

Institution: 

UT Austin

Time: 

Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 4:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 306

We report on recent and ongoing work with Zhou Gang and I.M.
Sigal in which we prove that all MCF neckpinches are asymptotically
rotationally symmetric. Combined with recent work of other authors, this
represents strong evidence in favor of the conjecture that MCF solutions
originating from generic initial data are constrained to one of exactly
two asymptotic singularity profiles.