School of Mathematics

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We show that the bipartite perfect matching problem is in $\textrm{quasi-}\textsf{NC}^2$. That is, it has uniform circuits of quasi-polynomial size and $O(\log^2 n)$ depth. Previously, only an exponential upper bound was known on the size of such...

This is joint work with Zhiwei Yun. We prove a generalization of Gross-Zagier formula in the function field setting. Our formula relates self-intersection of certain cycles on the moduli of Shtukas for $\mathrm{GL}(2)$ to higher derivatives of L...

This talk will discuss the question: To what extent are the fundamental groups of compact 3-manifolds determined (amongst the fundamental groups of compact 3-manifolds) by their finite quotients. We will discuss work that provides a positive answer...