Prof. Melanie Rupflin
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Melanie Rupflin: Sharp quantitative rigidity results for maps from S^2 to S^2 of general degree, arXiv:2305.17045
Melanie Rupflin: Low energy levels of harmonic maps into analytic manifolds, arxiv:2303.00389
Melanie Rupflin: Convergence of almost harmonic maps to geodesic bubble trees, arXiv:2210.13367
Melanie Rupflin: Lojasiewicz inequalities for almost harmonic maps near simple bubble trees, arXiv:2101.05527
Andrea Malchiodi, Melanie Rupflin, Ben Sharp: Łojasiewicz inequalities near simple bubble trees, to appear in American Journal of Mathematics, arxiv:2007.07017
James Kohout, Melanie Rupflin, Peter M. Topping: Uniqueness and nonuniqueness of limits of Teichmueller harmonic map flow, Adv. Calc. Var 15 (2022) arXiv:1909.06422
Melanie Rupflin: Hyperbolic metrics on surfaces with boundary, J. Geom. Anal. 31, 3117-3136, (2021) arXiv:1807.04464
Craig Robertson, Melanie Rupflin: Finite-time degeneration for variants of Teichmüller harmonic map flow, J. London Math. Society (2) 2020, arXiv:1807.06363
Melanie Rupflin, Peter M. Topping: Global weak solutions of the Teichmüller harmonic map flow into general targets,
Anal. PDE 12 (2019), arXiv:1709.01881
Nadine Große, Melanie Rupflin: Holomorphic quadratic differentials dual to Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates,
Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 55 (2019), arXiv:1806.04384
Melanie Rupflin, Matthew R. I. Schrecker: Analysis of boundary bubbles for almost minimal cylinders,
Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 57 (2018), arXiv:1707.07985
Nadine Grosse and Melanie Rupflin: Sharp eigenvalue estimates on degenerating surfaces,
Comm. Partial Differential Equations 44 (2019), 573-612, arXiv:1701.08491
Melanie Rupflin and Peter M. Topping: Horizontal curves of hyperbolic metrics,
Calc. Var. PDE 57 (2018), arXiv:1605.06691
Reto Müller and Melanie Rupflin: Smooth long-time existence of Harmonic-Ricci Flow on surfaces, J. Lond. Math. Soc. 95 (2017), arXiv:1510.03643
Tobias Huxol, Melanie Rupflin, Peter M. Topping: Refined asymptotics of the Teichmüller harmonic map flow into general targets,
Calc. Var. PDEs 55 (2016), arXiv:1502.05791
Melanie Rupflin, Teichmüller harmonic map flow from cylinders,
Mathematische Annalen, 368 (2017), 1227-1276, arXiv:1501.07552
Melanie Rupflin, Oliver C. Schnürer: Weak solutions to mean curvature flow respecting obstacles, to appear in Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa, arXiv:1409.7529
Melanie Rupflin and Peter M. Topping: Teichmüller harmonic map flow into nonpositively curved targets,
J. Differential Geom. 108 (2018), arXiv:1403.3195
Melanie Rupflin and Peter M. Topping: A uniform Poincaré estimate for quadratic differentials on closed surfaces, Calc. Var. PDE 53 (2015), MR3347472
Melanie Rupflin, Peter M. Topping and Miaomiao Zhu: Asymptotics of the Teichmüller harmonic map flow, Adv. Math. 244 (2013), MR3115138
Melanie Rupflin: Flowing maps to minimal surfaces: Existence and uniqueness of solutions Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire 31 (2014), no. 2, MR3181674
Melanie Rupflin and Peter M. Topping: Flowing to minimal surfaces, American Journal of Mathematics
138 (2016), arXiv:1205.6298
I am currently lecturing the part A course in Differential Equations and the Part B Course Functional Analysis 2.
You can find some videos of the lectures also on the Youtube-channel of the Mathematics Department, such as a lecture on the Maximum Principle and lectures on weak convergence.
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
I work on the analysis of elliptic and parabolic non-linear PDEs and of geometric variational problems, in particular related to harmonic maps.
A major focus of my current research is to develop a new quantitative theory for variational problems that is robust enough to deal with phenomena such as formation of singularities or concentration of energy at different scales and that yields precise control on the dynamics of gradient flows.
You can find a recent talk on gradient flows from the LMS summer school aimed at undergraduate student here.