Analysis Seminar

Date:
Feb
14
2012

Analysis Seminar

On Zaremba's Conjecture on Continued Fractions
2:30pm|S-101

Zaremba's 1971 conjecture predicts that every integer appears as the denominator of a finite continued fraction whose partial quotients are bounded by an absolute constant. We confirm this conjecture for a set of density one.

Dec
13
2011

Analysis Seminar

Two-Point Problem for the Ideal Incompressible Fluid
2:30pm|S-101

Consider the flow of ideal incompressible fluid in a bounded 2-d domain $M$ (say, $M= 3DT^2$, the 2-d torus). In the Lagrange formulation, the flow is a geodesic $f_t$ on the group $SDif f(M)$ of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms of $M$ with respect...

Dec
06
2011

Analysis Seminar

On the Ergodic Properties of Square-Free Numbers
2:30pm|S-101

I shall explain the structure of correlation functions for square-free numbers and describe a 'natural' dynamical system associated to them. Spectral analysis allows us to show that this system is metrically isomorphic to a translation on a compact...

Nov
29
2011

Analysis Seminar

The Energy-Critical Defocusing NLS in Periodic Settings
2:30pm|S-101

I will discuss some recent work, joint with B. Pausader, on constructing global solutions of defocusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrodinger equations in periodic and semiperiodic settings.

Nov
17
2011

Analysis Seminar

Tangent Cones to Calibrated Currents
Constante Bellettini
2:00pm|West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Calibrated currents are a particular class of volume-minimizers and as such provide interesting explicit examples of solutions to Plateau's problem. Their role goes however much beyond that: they naturally appear when dealing with several geometric...

Nov
10
2011

Analysis Seminar

Around the Davenport-Heilbronn Function
3:00pm|S-101

The Davenport-Heilbronn function (introduced by Titchmarsh) is a linear combination of the two L-functions with a complex character mod 5, with a functional equation of L-function type but for which the analogue of the Riemann hypothesis fails. In...

Nov
01
2011

Analysis Seminar

The Defocusing Cubic Nonlinear Wave Equation in the Energy-Supercritical Regime
3:15pm|S-101

In this talk, we will present some recent results in the study of the nonlinear wave equation with cubic defocusing nonlinearity, describing the completion of a program to establish global well-posedness and scattering in the energy-supercritical...

Oct
25
2011

Analysis Seminar

On the Rigidity of Black Holes
Sergiu Klainerman
2:30pm|S-101

The classical result on the uniqueness of black holes in GR, due to Hawking, which asserts that regular, stationary solutions of the Einstein vacuum equations must be isometric to an admissible black hole Kerr solution, has at its core a a highly...

Oct
21
2011

Analysis Seminar

On the Instability for 2D Fluids
3:00pm|S-101

For 2D Euler equation, we prove a double exponential lower bound on the vorticity gradient. We will also discus some further results on the singularity formation for other models.

Sep
02
2008

Joint IAS/Princeton University Geometric Analysis Seminar

Minimal Lagrangian Diffeomorphisms Between Domains in the Hyperbolic Plane
3:00pm|Fine Hall -- 314

Let $\Omega$ and $\tilde{\Omega}$ be domains in the hyperbolic plane with smooth boundary. Assume that both domains are uniformly convex, and have the same area. We show that there exists an area-preserving, orientation-preserving diffeomorphism $f...