Previous Conferences & Workshops

Jan
22
2019

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

Symplectic methods for sharp systolic inequalities
Umberto Hryniewicz
1:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

In this talk I would like to explain how methods from symplectic geometry can be used to obtain sharp systolic inequalities. I will focus on two applications. The first is the proof of a conjecture due to Babenko-Balacheff on the local systolic...

Jan
22
2019

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

New Results on Projections
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101

What is the largest number of projections onto k coordinates guaranteed in every family of m binary vectors of length n? This fundamental question is intimately connected to important topics and results in combinatorics and computer science (Turan...

Jan
15
2019

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

Minimal surfaces with index one in spherical space forms
Celso Viana
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Minimal surfaces are critical points of the area functional. In this talk I will discuss classification results for minimal surfaces with index one in 3-manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature and outline the proof that in spherical space forms...

Jan
15
2019

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

Regularity of weakly stable codimension 1 CMC varifolds
1:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

The lecture will discuss recent joint work with C. Bellettini and O. Chodosh. The work taken together establishes sharp regularity conclusions, compactness and curvature estimates for any family of codimension 1 integral $n$-varifolds satisfying: (i...

Jan
09
2019

Mathematics Seminar

Ramanujan complexes and golden gates in PU(3).
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

In their seminal works from the 80's, Lubotzky, Phillips and Sarnak proved the following two results: (i) An explicit construction of Ramanujan regular graphs. (ii) An explicit method of placing points on the sphere uniformly equidistributed. These...

Jan
09
2019

Mathematics Seminar

The Sup-norm Problem on $S^3$
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We consider the problem of bounding the sup-norm of $L^2$-normalised Hecke-Laplace eigenforms $\phi_j$ on $S^3$. Along the way, we overcome the difficulty of possibly small eigenvalues in the Iwaniec-Sarnak amplifier by taking a whole space of...