Seminars Sorted by Series

In this talk, I will give an overview of some recent results motivated by the computation and applications of persistent homology, a theory that creates a bridge between the continuous world of topology and the discrete world of data, and assigns...

We are surrounded by functional networks, from fluid transport in plants and animals to macroscopic elastic scaffoldings and microscopic crystals and materials, and engineered power grids. Often, such networks can be seen as optimized for their...

Links of strata in singular spaces are fundamental invariants which govern the topology of small neighbourhoods around points in those strata. This talk will focus on inferring links of strata from incomplete information in three completely...

What is the "right" topological invariant of a large point cloud $X$? Prior research has focused on estimating the full persistence diagram of $X$, a quantity that is very expensive to compute, unstable to outliers, and far from a sufficient...

The Picard group of the stable module category of a finite group plays a role in many parts of modular representation theory. It was calculated when the group is an abelian $p$-group, by pioneering work of Dade in the 1970's, and a classification...

Abstract: We present an elementary summary of known results, and open questions, on scaling problems in hydrodynamic turbulence in three dimensions. The goal is to provide some background for the two talks to follow, and summarize Victor Yakhot's...

Abstract: I will explain that incompressible Navier-Stokes is the wrong equation to describe turbulence in low Mach number molecular fluids because it neglects the effects of thermal noise. There should, in fact, be strong effects of thermal noise...

Abstract: We study the vortex sheet solutions of the Euler equation, which correspond to the tangent discontinuity of the velocity field.

We observe that stationary flows correspond to the Hamiltonian's minimization by the tangent discontinuity...