∇ Seminar (read as "nabla seminar" or "Grad seminar") is a student run Analysis and Geometry seminar at the Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University. The seminar features various expository and research talks from students meeting every Monday 4-5 PM at Graduate Student Lounge, Math Dept Hill 701, Rutgers University.
The Spring 2026 edition of the ∇ Seminar is being organized by myself, Qi Ma and Anupam Nayak.
You may find the titles and abstracts for the past and upcoming talks here.
Those who wish to receive e-mails for latest information of the seminar may subscribe to our mail-list by sending “Subscribe” to grad_analysis-join@email.rutgers.edu or you can email me at ah1531[at]math[dot]rutgers[dot]edu.
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Date: Feb 9th 2026
Speaker: Samanthak Thiagarajan
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Date: Feb 2nd 2026
Speaker: Junyoung Park
Title: On Eells and Sampson theorem
Abstract: The idea of using heat type equations to solve problems in geometry has been proven to be an extremely powerful method. In this talk, we will discuss one of the earliest success of such approach, which is the use of harmonic map heat flow to find minimizing harmonic maps in a given homotopy class, under a geometric constraint on the target manifold.
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UPCOMING!
Date: Feb 23rd 2026
Speaker: Aprameya Girish Hebbar
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Date: Feb 16th 2026
Speaker: Anupam Nayak
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