Previous Conferences & Workshops

Jan
31
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Upper bounds for constant slope p-adic families of modular forms
John Bergdall
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

This talk is concerned with the radius of convergence of p-adic families of modular forms --- q-series over a p-adic disc whose specialization to certain integer points is the q-expansion of a classical Hecke eigenform of level p. Numerical...

Jan
31
2019

Analysis Seminar

Analyticity results for the Navier-Stokes Equations
1:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We consider the Navier–Stokes equations posed on the half space, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We give a direct energy based proof for the instantaneous space-time analyticity and Gevrey class regularity of the solutions, uniformly up to the...

Jan
30
2019

Mathematical Conversations

A mathematical conjecture about crumpling paper
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

Understanding the mechanics of crumpling, i.e. of isotropically compressing thin elastic sheets, is a challenging problem of theoretical and applied interest. We will present an interesting conjecture on the order of magnitude of the elastic energy...

Jan
29
2019

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

The systole of large genus minimal surfaces in positive Ricci curvature
Henrik Matthiesen
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We prove that the systole (or more generally, any k-th homology systole) of a minimal surface in an ambient three manifold of positive Ricci curvature tends to zero as the genus of the minimal surfaces becomes unbounded. This is joint work with Anna...

Jan
29
2019

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

Minmax minimal surfaces in arbitrary codimension with
Tristan Rivière
1:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We shall present a procedure which to any admissible family of immersions of surfaces into an arbitrary closed riemannian manifolds assigns a smooth, possibly branched, minimal surface whose area is equal to the width of the corresponding minmax and...

Jan
29
2019

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

A Regularity Lemma with Modifications
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101

Given an arbitrary graph, we show that if we are allowed to modify (say) 1% of the edges then it is possible to obtain a much smaller regular partition than in Szemeredi's original proof of the regularity lemma. Moreover, we show that it is...

Jan
28
2019

Symplectic Dynamics/Geometry Seminar

Vortex equation and gauged sigma model
Guangbo Xu
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

In this survey talk, I will review the known constructions of mathematical theories of gauged sigma model and its relations with Gromov--Witten theory and FJRW theory. I will emphasize the analytic side, but will also mention related algebraic...