Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
10
2018

Mathematical Conversations

Stirring efficiently
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

I will consider a very simple open problem in the theory of ODEs and give a brief overview on what is known about it. The problem is also an excuse to talk about a widely open subject in modern PDEs.

Oct
10
2018

Informal Group Action Seminar

Thin groups and their dynamics
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Thin groups are finitely generated, infinite index subgroups of arithmetic lattices in Lie groups. Interesting examples come from monodromies of families of algebraic manifolds and in these cases, the "thinness" of monodromy is explained by special...

Oct
09
2018

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

Construction of hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature
Jonathan Zhu
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We'll describe a joint project with X. Zhou in which we use min-max techniques to prove existence of closed hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature in closed Riemannian manifolds. Our min-max theory handles the case of nonzero constant mean...

Oct
09
2018

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

Singularity and comparison theorems for metrics with positive scalar curvature
1:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Following a program proposed by Gromov, we study metric singularities of positive scalar curvature of codimension two and three. In addition, we describe a comparison theorem for positive scalar curvature that is captured by polyhedra. Part of this...

Oct
09
2018

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Asymptotic spectra and their applications I and II
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101

These two talks will introduce the asymptotic rank and asymptotic subrank of tensors and graphs - notions that are key to understanding basic questions in several fields including algebraic complexity theory, information theory and combinatorics.

M...

Oct
08
2018

Symplectic Dynamics/Geometry Seminar

Semitoric families
Joseph Palmer
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Semitoric systems are a type of 4-dimensional integrable system which has been classified by Pelayo-Vu Ngoc in terms of five invariants, one of which is a family of polygons generalizing the Delzant polygons which classify 4-dimensional toric...