Previous Conferences & Workshops

In this series of two talks we will discuss Weinstein structures endowed with a Lefschetz fibration in terms of the Legendrian front projection. The main focus is on Weinstein manifolds which admit a Weinstein Lefschetz fibration with an $A_k$-fibre...

Joint work with Jacob Tsimerman. Let $B(g,p)$ denote the number of isomorphism classes of $g$-dimensional abelian varieties over the finite field of size $p$. Let $A(g,p)$ denote the number of isomorphism classes of principally polarized $g$...

Satellite operations are a common way to create interesting knot types in the smooth category. It starts with a knot $K$, called the companion knot, in some manifold $M$ and another knot $P$, called the pattern, in $S^1 \times D^2$ and then creates...

I will describe some work in progress (maybe more accurately, wild speculation) regarding a version of the derived Fukaya category for contact 1-jet spaces $J^1(X)$. This category is built from Legendrian submanifolds equipped with augmentations...

In this talk we will describe two methods which shows that, under some rigidity assumptions on the involved Legendrian submanifolds, a Lagrangian cobordism is simply connected. The first one uses the functoriality of the fundamental class in...

"Hyperbolic" ranks highly among the most-abused terms in dynamics. I'll prolong this abuse, and argue for its value, by illustrating a variety of dynamical systems with distinct forms of hyperbolic behavior that have known or conjectured...

Through the work of Agol and Wise, we know that all closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds are finitely covered by a surface bundle over the circle. Thus the geometry of these bundles indicates the geometry of general hyperbolic 3-manifolds. But there are...

The main object of study of this talk are matrices whose entries are linear forms in a set of formal variables (over some field). The main problem is determining if a given such matrix is invertible or singular (over the appropriate field of...

Goldston & Montgomery and Montgomery & Soundararajan have established formulae for the variance of sums of the von Magoldt function over short intervals (i.e. for the variance of the number of primes in these intervals) assuming, respectively, the...