About Me



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Since September, 2023, I am a postdoctoral researcher at CMU (Carnegie Mellon University), mentored by prof. Robin Neumayer. I completed my Ph.D. at IME-USP under the supervision of prof. Stefano Nardulli and prof. Camillo De Lellis.

My research lies within the fields of Geometric Analysis and Geometric Measure Theory. I kindly invite you to click on the Menu to get more info about me, my research and activities.



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Curriculum vitae



You can click on the button above to download a complete detailed (.pdf) version of my CV that was last updated in May of 2023.


Some personal info:

  • I was born in January 04, 1996, in the city of São Paulo (county of Capão Redondo), Brazil.
  • I have a lovely wife and no kids yet!

    • Languages:

    • Portuguese is my native language;
    • I am fluent in English;
    • I am a struggling learner in Italian (intermediate level).

      • Memberships:

      • Member of the AMS (American Mathematical Society) since Apr/2023.
      • Member of the SBM (Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática) since Apr/2023.

        • Academic appointments:

        • Sep/2023- : Postdoctoral researcher in Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University.
          • -Mentor: Robin Neumayer.

          Research visits:

          • 2023: (5 months) Visiting Student Research Collaborator (VSRC), Princeton University.
          • 2022: (4 months) Thematic Program on Nonsmooth Riemannian and Lorentzian Geometry, The Fields Institute, University of Toronto.

            • Education:

            • Ago/2019-Jul/2023: Ph.D in Mathematics at University of São Paulo.
              • -Advisor: Stefano Nardulli. Coadvisor: Camillo De Lellis.
            • Ago/2017-Jul/2019: Master degree in Mathematics at the University of São Paulo.
              • -Advisor: Gláucio Terra. Coadvisor: Stefano Nardulli.
            • Jan/2014-Jul/2017: Bachelor degree in Mathematics at the University of São Paulo.
              • -Advisor: Gláucio Terra.
            • 2013: High school "E.E. Dr. Afiz Gebara" in Capão Redondo/São Paulo/Brazil.

              • Refereeing for:

              • Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, Proceedings of the International Geometry Center.

                • Organizing committees:

                • Thematic Session on Geometric Measure Theory, at IMPA.

                  • Grants/Funding:

                  • Research Associate (RA): FAPESP - 2021/05256-0.
                  • PhD Scholarship: CAPES - 88882.377954/2019-01.
                  • Master Scholarship: CNPq - 166204/2017-0.

                    • My Research

                    My main field of research is geometric measure theory (GMT). I am also interested in geometric analysis, calculus of variations, and some aspects of PDEs.
                    Currently, I am focused on regularity issues in GMT. For instance, regularity of currents/Caccioppoli sets minimizing an elliptic integrand and properties of their singular sets. Some questions concerning, specifically, the area integrand and its minimizing currents in high codimension (i.e., using Almgren-De Lellis-Spadaro's techniques) are also being part of my daily thoughts. Another direction I'm heading to is the regularity of stationary varifolds (more generally, with p-integrable generalized mean curvature) w.r.t. anisotropic integrands.
                  • R. Resende (2023). Lipschitz approximation for general almost area minimizing currents.
                    • -PDF file: Access here.
                    -Submitted.
                  • A. De Rosa and R. Resende (2023). Boundary regularity for anisotropic minimal Lipschitz graphs.
                    • -PDF file: Access here.
                    -Submitted.
                  • J. H. Andrade, J. Conrado, S. Nardulli, P. Piccione, R. Resende (2022). Multiplicity of solutions to the multiphasic Allen-Cahn-Hilliard system with a small volume constraint on closed parallelizable manifolds.
                    • -PDF file: Access here.
                    -Submitted.
                  • S. Nardulli and R. Resende (2022). Density of the boundary regular set of 2d area minimizing currents with arbitrary codimension and multiplicity.
                    • - PDF file: Access here.
                    - Submitted.
                  • R. Resende (2022). On clusters and the multi-isoperimetric profile in Riemannian manifolds with bounded geometry.
                    • - DOI: 10.1007/s10883-022-09592-3. PDF file: Access here.
                    - Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems (JDCS).
                  • R. Resende (2023). Some regularity results in geometric measure theory.
                  • R. Resende. (2019). Regularity of almost minimizing sets. Master's degree dissertation.
                    • -DOI: 10.11606/D.45.2019.TDE-28082019-125158.
                  • R. Resende. (2017). Minimal and maximal surfaces. Bachelor's degree dissertation (In portuguese).

                    • Events, Talks, and Seminars

                  • Study Guide Writing Workshop in Harmonic Analysis., UPenn, 2023.
                  • Conferences On Smooth and Nonsmooth Geometric Analysis, Federal University of the ABC, 2023.
                    • -Title: "Lipschitz approximation for general almost minimizing currents"
                  • Rutgers Geometric Analysis Conference, Rutgers University, 2023.
                  • 37th Geometry Festival, Princeton University, 2023.
                  • PDE-Applied Math Seminar, University of Maryland (UMD), 2023.
                    • -Talk title: Regularity results for area minimizing $m$-currents in $\mathbb{R}^{m+n}$.
                  • Recent trends in nonlinear and geometric analysis, CUNY Graduate Center, 2023.
                  • Hausdorff School on Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM), 2022.
                    • -Poster Title: "Density of the boundary regular set of 2d area minimizing currents with arbitrary codimension and multiplicity"
                  • CIMPA Research school: Singularities and Applications, University of São Paulo, Campus São Carlos (USP), 2022.
                    • -Poster Title: "Density of the boundary regular set of 2d area minimizing currents with arbitrary codimension and multiplicity"
                  • Point Configurations: Deformations and Rigidity, University College London (UCL), 2022.
                    • -Poster Title: "Density of the boundary regular set of 2d area minimizing currents with arbitrary codimension and multiplicity"
                  • Isoperimetric Problems, University of Pisa, 2022.
                    • -Title: "On compactness and generalized existence results for clusters in Riemannian manifolds with bounded geometry"
                  • Conference Shape Optimization, related topics and applications, Roscoff Biological Center, 2022.
                    • -Poster Title: "Density of the boundary regular set of 2d area minimizing currents with arbitrary codimension and multiplicity"
                  • Workshop on Submanifold Theory and Geometric Analysis, Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCAR), 2019.
                    • -Poster Title: "On (Λ, r)-minimizing sets"
                  • III Brazilian congress of young researches in pure and applied mathematics and statistics, Federal University of Parana, UFPR, 2018.
                    • -Poster Title: "Geometric measure theory"
                  • Modern Trends in Differential Geometry, IME-USP, 2018.
                  • Symposium in Harmonic Analysis and Geometric Measure Theory, USP-Ribeirão Preto, 2018.

                    • Teaching



                    Teaching at Carnegie Mellon University:

                    • 2023: 21-356: "Principles of Real Analysis II".

                      • Teaching at University of São Paulo:

                      • 2023: "Introduction to linear algebra" at IME-USP.
                      • 2022: "Metric spaces" at IME-USP.

                        • Teaching Assistant:

                        • 2022: "Differential and integral calculus I" at IGc-USP, 2022.
                        • 2021: "Differential Geometry" and "Series and differentiable functions" at IME-USP.
                        • 2020: "Calculus of multivariable functions II" and "Metric spaces", Summer Course, at IME-USP. Differential and integral calculus I at IAG-USP.
                        • 2019: "Linear algebra", Summer Course, and "Analytic geometry" at IME-USP.
                        • 2018: "Linear algebra II" and "Measure and integration" at IME-USP.
                        • 2017: "Introduction to linear algebra" at IME-USP.