Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
10
2016

Members’ Seminar

Gauss-Manin connections from a TQFT viewpoint
1:15pm|S-101

Classically, the Gauss-Manin connection relates the de Rham cohomology of different smooth fibres of a map. Its point of origin is the fact that vector fields act trivially on de Rham cohomology (the Cartan homotopy formula). That fact has an...

Oct
04
2016

Special Mathematical Physics Seminar

Derivation of the Vlasov equation
Peter Pickl
4:15pm|S-101

The rigorous derivation of the Vlasov equation from Newtonian mechanics of $N$ Coulomb-interacting particles is still an open problem. In the talk I will present recent results, where an $N$-dependent cutoff is used to make the derivation possible...