School of Mathematics

I will present joint work with V. Paškūnas and G. Böckle concerning deformation rings for mod p Galois representations of p-adic local fields. After giving a short introduction to the subject, I will explain our main result which says that framed...

In the first part of this talk, we take the ideas of the second talk and focus on the case of (arithmetic) lattices in PSL(2,R) and PSL(2,C). The required representation rigidity is achieved by what we call Galois rigidity. In particular if Γ1 is a...

An immersion from a smooth n-dimensional manifold M into Rq is called totally nonparallel if, for every pair of distinct points x and y in M, the tangent spaces at f(x) and f(y) contain no parallel lines. The simplest example is the map R→R2 sending...

 I will report on my recent work with Natalie Paquette, where we derive expressions for form factors and scattering amplitudes of gauge theory as correlators of a chiral algebra.  The chiral algebra is closely related to algebras appearing in the...

In this talk we will discuss connections between the geometric and analytic/PDE properties of sets. The emphasis is on quantifiable, global results which yield true equivalence between the geometric and PDE notions in very rough scenarios, including...

A surprising property of the cohomology of locally symmetric spaces is that Hecke operators can act on multiple cohomological degrees with the same eigenvalues. We will discuss this phenomenon for the coherent cohomology of line bundles on modular...

In this short talk, I will introduce the notion of n-morphisms between two A-infinity algebras. These higher morphisms are such that 0-morphisms correspond to standard A-infinity morphisms and 1-morphisms correspond to A-infinity homotopies. Their...

A generalization of the cartesian product and the free sum of two convex domains is the p-product operation. We investigate the behavior of symplectic capacities with respect to symplectic p-products, and we give applications related to Viterbo's...

In this talk, I will present two results relating the qualitative dynamics of non-degenerate Hamiltonian isotopies on surfaces to the structure of their Floer complexes.

The first will be a topological characterization of those Floer chains...