Florian Litzinger

Florian Litzinger

Postdoctoral researcher in mathematics

Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg

About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in the Non-linear Partial Differential Equations and Geometric Analysis group of the Institute of Analysis und Numerics, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, working with Miles Simon. Previously, I obtained my Ph.D. degree in mathematics at Queen Mary University of London, where I was supervised by Huy Nguyen and Reto Buzano.

My research interests lie primarily in geometric analysis. In particular, I focus on problems related to curve shortening flow, mean curvature flow, Ricci flow, and other geometric flows as well as isometric immersions of Riemannian manifolds and Pfaffian systems. I am also interested in numerical methods, especially for geometric partial differential equations.

Interests

  • Geometric evolution equations
  • Isometric immersions and Pfaffian systems
  • Numerical methods for geometric PDE

Education

  • Ph.D. in mathematics, 2021

    Queen Mary University of London

  • M.Sc. in mathematics, 2017

    Freie Universität Berlin

  • B.Sc. in mathematics and philosophy, 2014

    Freie Universität Berlin

Publications

Man-Chun Lee, Florian Litzinger, Miles Simon. Spaces with distributional scalar curvature bounded from below: Optimal regularity and positive mass. Preprint, 2026.

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Florian Litzinger, Miles Simon. Ricci-DeTurck flow of almost continuous $L^2$-metrics, and metrics with distributional scalar curvature bounded from below. Preprint, 2025.

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Florian Litzinger. Singularities of low entropy high codimension curve shortening flow. Preprint, 2023.

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Florian Litzinger. Regularity theory and singularity analysis for certain geometric partial differential equations. PhD thesis, 2021.

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Florian Litzinger. Optimal Regularity for Two-Dimensional Pfaffian Systems and the Fundamental Theorem of Surface Theory. The Journal of Geometric Analysis, 2020.

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Florian Litzinger, Lorenzo Boninsegna, Hao Wu, Feliks Nüske, Raajen Patel, Richard Baraniuk, Frank Noé, Cecilia Clementi. Rapid Calculation of Molecular Kinetics Using Compressed Sensing. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2018.

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Past Talks

DMV Annual Meeting
7 September 2026 — 10 September 2026 University of Konstanz, Germany
Geometric Analysis: Parabolic and Elliptic Methods
8 June 2026 — 12 June 2026 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Geometry at Infinity: International Conference on Differential Geometry, Geometric Topology, and Global Analysis
31 March 2025 — 4 April 2025 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
MATRIX-MFO Tandem Workshop: Nonlinear Geometric Diffusion Equations
23 February 2025 — 28 February 2025 Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany
Geometry and Analysis in Hannover and Magdeburg
23 January 2025 — 24 January 2025 Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
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Seminar

Together with Miles Simon, I organise the Geometric Analysis Seminar at Magdeburg. I am also involved in the Hannover—Magdeburg Seminar on Differential Geometry and Analysis. In January 2025, Nikolas Eptaminitakis and myself organised a two-day workshop, called Geometry and Analysis in Hannover and Magdeburg, at Leibniz University Hannover.

Teaching

At OVGU:

Summer term 2026:

Winter term 2025/26:

Summer term 2025:

Winter term 2024/25:

Summer term 2024:

Winter term 2023/24:

Summer term 2023:

Winter term 2022/23:

Summer term 2022:

Winter term 2021/22:

Previously, at QMUL and FU Berlin, I have been involved in various modules across analysis, algebra, geometry, numerical mathematics, financial mathematics, and programming.

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