Video Lectures

Given a finite collection of disjoint Lagrangian circles on a symplectic surface satisfying some area constraints, Cristofaro-Gardiner, Humilière, Mak, Seyfaddini and Smith define a link spectral invariant, by computing the Lagrangian Floer homology...

In algebraic geometry, the Ceresa cycle provided one of the first examples of a nullhomologous cycle which is not algebraically trivial. I will explain how one can obtain a mirror statement about the Lagrangian Ceresa cycle, a nullhomologous...

For an elliptic curve E defined over Q, the Mordell-Weil group E(Q) is a finitely generated abelian group. We prove that there are infinitely many elliptic curves E over Q for which E(Q) has rank 2. Our elliptic curves will be given by explicit...

The alpha disk model is widely used to describe the accretion disk structures around supermassive black holes, even though it cannot explain many observed properties of AGNs. Various alternative models have been proposed including the ones where...

Suppose given a class of finite combinatorial structures, such as graphs or total orders. Nate Harman and I recently introduced a notion of measure in this context: this is a rule assigning a number to each structure such that some axioms are...

Fibered 3-manifolds are those constructed via surface homeomorphisms. Given such a manifold with pseudo-Anosov monodromy, much is already known about how topological data of the mapping class determine geometric information about the hyperbolic 3...

In the early 80s Hatcher proved the Smale Conjecture, asserting that the diffeomorphism group of the three-sphere retracts onto its isometry group.  The corresponding problem for RP^3 was open nearly 40 years, and resolved only in 2019 by a detailed...

This talk is based on joint work with Yang Li. I will discuss the problem of counting special Lagrangians in Calabi-Yau 3-folds and Fueter sections to define new numerical and Floer-theoretic invariants. The key challenges are the non-compactness...

High dimensional expansion comes in two flavors: spectral, which relates to random walks;  and cosystolic, which relates to chains of linear maps. The later is a more mysterious notion, which turns out related to a variety of applications such as...

Persistence modules and their associated barcodes were intensively studied since the early 2000s with a view towards applied mathematics. Recently they have also found numerous applications in pure mathematics. We will discuss a few examples from...