Sigurd Angenent

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Sigurd Angenent is a scholar working on Applied Mathematics, Geometry and Topology and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sigurd Angenent has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Applied Mathematics, 22 papers in Geometry and Topology and 16 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Sigurd Angenent's work include Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (22 papers), Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (15 papers) and Geometry and complex manifolds (14 papers). Sigurd Angenent is often cited by papers focused on Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (22 papers), Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (15 papers) and Geometry and complex manifolds (14 papers). Sigurd Angenent collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Australia. Sigurd Angenent's co-authors include Allen Tannenbaum, Steven Haker, Morton E. Gurtin, Steven J. Altschuler, Lani F. Wu, Ron Kikinis, Lei Zhu, Alexandra Jilkine, Guillermo Sapiro and Dan Knopf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Sigurd Angenent

67 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Membrane Tension Maintains Cell Polarity by Confining Signals to the Leading Edge during Neutrophil Migration
    2012 424 citations Andrew Houk, Alexandra Jilkine et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sigurd Angenent United States 33 1.6k 897 685 682 678 69 4.0k
Tudor S. Raţiu Switzerland 40 1.4k 0.9× 705 0.8× 2.2k 3.3× 1.6k 2.4× 2.2k 3.3× 206 10.6k
Konstantin Mischaikow United States 38 400 0.3× 1.5k 1.6× 411 0.6× 571 0.8× 1.1k 1.6× 138 4.9k
Michael Spivak United States 5 731 0.5× 276 0.3× 677 1.0× 337 0.5× 394 0.6× 9 2.4k
Nicola Fusco Italy 31 3.7k 2.3× 2.9k 3.3× 847 1.2× 721 1.1× 1.6k 2.4× 105 5.6k
Chris Budd United Kingdom 30 417 0.3× 449 0.5× 943 1.4× 717 1.1× 403 0.6× 138 4.4k
Edward B. Saff United States 31 2.4k 1.5× 817 0.9× 655 1.0× 362 0.5× 871 1.3× 184 4.6k
Luigi Ambrosio Italy 46 6.6k 4.1× 3.6k 4.0× 2.0k 3.0× 1.8k 2.6× 2.7k 4.0× 175 11.4k
Yann Brenier France 27 2.3k 1.5× 395 0.4× 620 0.9× 1.1k 1.7× 678 1.0× 68 3.8k
Gianni Dal Maso Italy 43 3.0k 1.9× 4.5k 5.0× 334 0.5× 1.9k 2.7× 1.7k 2.5× 171 7.3k
Diego Pallara Italy 15 1.8k 1.1× 1.5k 1.7× 320 0.5× 538 0.8× 1.2k 1.7× 66 3.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sigurd Angenent

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Yongzhe, Connor A. Olson, Ilyas Khan, & Sigurd Angenent. (2023). Nonconvex ancient solutions to curve shortening flow. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.
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Angenent, Sigurd, James Isenberg, & Dan Knopf. (2013). Degenerate neckpinches in Ricci flow. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal). 2015(709). 81–117. 13 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd. (2013). Formal asymptotic expansions for symmetric ancient ovalsin mean curvature flow. Networks and Heterogeneous Media. 8(1). 1–8. 6 indexed citations
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Houk, Andrew, Alexandra Jilkine, Cecile O. Mejean, et al.. (2012). Membrane Tension Maintains Cell Polarity by Confining Signals to the Leading Edge during Neutrophil Migration. Cell. 148(1-2). 175–188. 424 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jilkine, Alexandra, Sigurd Angenent, Lani F. Wu, & Steven J. Altschuler. (2011). A Density-Dependent Switch Drives Stochastic Clustering and Polarization of Signaling Molecules. PLoS Computational Biology. 7(11). e1002271–e1002271. 47 indexed citations
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Altschuler, Steven J., Sigurd Angenent, Yanqin Wang, & Lani F. Wu. (2008). On the spontaneous emergence of cell polarity. Nature. 454(7206). 886–889. 182 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd, Éric Pichon, & Allen Tannenbaum. (2006). Mathematical methods in medical image processing. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 43(3). 365–397. 66 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd. (2005). Curve shortening and the topology of closed geodesics on surfaces. Annals of Mathematics. 162(3). 1187–1241. 11 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd & D. G. Aronson. (2001). Non-axial self-similar hole filling for the porous medium equation. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 14(4). 737–782. 15 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd, et al.. (1997). Degenerate neckpinches in mean curvature flow.. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal). 482. 15–66. 38 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd & Марек Фила. (1996). Interior gradient blow-up in a semilinear parabolic equation. Differential and Integral Equations. 9(5). 29 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd, Tom Ilmanen, & David L. Chopp. (1995). A Computed example of nonuniqueness of mean curvature flow in R3. Communications in Partial Differential Equations. 20(11-12). 1937–1958. 56 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd, et al.. (1994). The dynamics of a degenerate reaction diffusion equation. Journal of mathematical sciences. 1(3). 471–524.
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Altschuler, Steven J., Sigurd Angenent, & Yoshikazu Giga. (1991). Mean curvature flow through singularities for surfaces of rotation. EPrints - Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University. 130. 1–62. 3 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd, et al.. (1991). Generalized motion by mean curvature for surfaces of rotation. EPrints - Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University. 119. 2–15. 4 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd. (1990). Parabolic equations for curves on surgaces, Part II. Annals of Mathematics. 132. 171–215. 1 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd & Bernold Fiedler. (1988). The dynamics of rotating waves in scalar reaction diffusion equations. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 307(2). 545–568. 52 indexed citations
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Heijmans, H.J.A.M., et al.. (1987). One-parameter semigroups. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 5. 1–312. 168 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd, John Mallet‐Paret, & L. A. Peletier. (1987). Stable transition layers in a semilinear boundary value problem. Journal of Differential Equations. 67(2). 212–242. 88 indexed citations
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Angenent, Sigurd. (1986). The Morse-Smale property for a semi-linear parabolic equation. Journal of Differential Equations. 62(3). 427–442. 96 indexed citations

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