Previous Conferences & Workshops

Feb
04
2010

Analytic and Geometric Number Theory Seminar

On the Sup-Norm of Maass Forms of Large Level
2:00pm|S-101

We discuss the question of quantitative bounds on the sup-norm of automorphic cusp forms. We present an improvement on a recent result by Blomer-Holowinsky on Hecke-Maass forms on $X_0(N)$ with large level $N$. Analogous results are then established...

Feb
03
2010

Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems

Knotted, Linked and Tangled Nodal Lines in Optical Fields
Mark Dennis
5:00pm|The Hill Center (Core 431), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Optical fields propagating in three-dimensional free space are complex scalar fields, and typically contain nodal lines (optical vortices) which may be thought of as interference fringes. Random wave fields, representing speckle patterns randomly...

Feb
03
2010

Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems

Caging and Linking
Yuliy Baryshnikov
2:00pm|The Hill Center (Core 431), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

For a planar domain, a finite point configuration is said to be caging, if the set of Euclidean motions of the domain not hitting the point configuration is bounded. Caging configurations are important in robotics and are a popular topic in...

Feb
03
2010

Analytic and Geometric Number Theory Seminar

A Subconvexity Bound for automorphic L-Functions for SL(3,Z)
Liangyi Zhao
2:00pm|S-101

In this joint work with Stephan Baier, we prove a subconvexity bound for Godement-Jacquet L-functions associated with Maass forms for SL(3,Z). The bound arrives from extending a method of M. Jutila (with new ingredients and innovations) on...

Feb
02
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Representation Theory and Expansion in Groups
10:30am|S-101

In this survey lecture (which will continue on Tue., Feb 2) I plan to explain basic aspects of the representation theory of finite groups, and how these are applied to various questions regarding expansion and random walks on groups. These...

Feb
01
2010

Members’ Seminar

An Extension Criterion for Lattice Actions on the Circle
Marc Burger
2:00pm|S-101

We establish a necessary and sufficient condition for an action of a lattice by homeomorphisms of the circle to extend continuously to the ambient locally compact group. This condition is expressed in terms of the real bounded Euler class of this...

Jan
29
2010

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar

Nodal Sets for Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian and Lattice Points on Circles and Spheres
2:00pm|S-101

An outstanding problem in "Quantum Chaos" is to understand the complexity of highly excited quantum states, and in particular of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a compact manifold. One attribute that can be studied is complexity of the nodal set...