Seminars Sorted by Series

Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar

Jan
21
2011

Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar

The Cartan Geometry of the Rotating Kepler Problem
Otto van Koert
4:00pm|S-101

In this talk we shall discuss the Cartan geometry of the rotating Kepler problem. The rotating Kepler problem appears as the limit of the restricted planar three-body body when one of the masses goes to zero. As such, this problem plays the role of...

Jan
26
2011

Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar

Periodic Bounce Orbits of Prescribed Energy
2:00pm|S-101

Periodic bounce orbits are generalizations of billiard trajectories in the presence of a potential. Using an approximation technique by Benci-Giannoni we prove existence of periodic bounce orbits of prescribed energy. At the end of the talk I will...

Jan
26
2011

Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar

J-Curves in Degenerating Contact Manifolds
4:00pm|S-101

We will discuss some recent SFT-type compactness results for J-curves (i.e. pseudo-holomorphic curves) in the symplectization of a contact manifold which is stretched along a special hypersurface. This procedure is called "sideways stretching" and...

Apr
08
2011

Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar

The Dehn Function of SL(n;Z)
4:00pm|S-101

The Dehn function is a group invariant which connects geometric and combinatorial group theory; it measures both the difficulty of the word problem and the area necessary to fill a closed curve in an associated space with a disc. The behavior of the...

Glimpses of Mathematics, Now and Then: A Celebration of Karen Uhlenbeck's 80th birthday

Sep
17
2022

Glimpses of Mathematics, Now and Then: A Celebration of Karen Uhlenbeck's 80th birthday

Higgs bundles and Higher Teichmüller spaces
Brian Collier
10:15am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Abstract: The Teichm\"uller space of a compact surface S is realized as a connected component of the space of conjugacy classes of representations of the fundamental group into the Lie group PSL(2,R). This component is distinguished by the fact that...

Sep
18
2022

Glimpses of Mathematics, Now and Then: A Celebration of Karen Uhlenbeck's 80th birthday

Geometry, fluids and the Laplacian
Magdalena Czubak
10:15am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Abstract:  We are interested in a fluid flow on a general Riemannian manifold.  There are inequivalent formulations of the governing equations.  One reason for this comes from having several Laplacians to choose from when working with vector fields...

Goncharov Reading Group

Feb
05
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

11:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

Feb
12
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

An introduction to Hodge theory
Christopher Brav
10:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

Feb
19
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

More on Hodge theory
Christopher Brav
10:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

Feb
26
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

An introduction to algebraic K-theory
Daniel Grayson
10:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

Mar
05
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

Hyperbolic manifolds
Tudor Dimofte
10:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

Mar
19
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

Introduction to motives
10:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

Mar
26
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

Dilogarithms
Tudor Dimofte and Christopher Brav
10:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

Apr
02
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

Back to the paper!
Inna Zakharevich and Christopher Brav
10:00am|West Bldg. Lect. Hall

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

Apr
09
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

More on motives
Chuck Weibel
10:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

Apr
23
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

To Be Announced
10:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

Apr
30
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

To Be Announced
10:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

May
07
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

To Be Announced
10:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

May
14
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

To Be Announced
10:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

May
21
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

To Be Announced
10:00am|S-114

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

Graph Complexes Learning Seminar

Group Theory/Dynamics Talk

Dec
09
2022

Group Theory/Dynamics Talk

How Small Can a Group or a Graph be to Admit a Non-Trivial Poisson Boundary?
1:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

We review results about random walks on groups, discussing results and conjectures relating critical constant for recurrence/transience, growth and Poisson boundary.

Much less is known about behavior of random walks on Schreier graphs. Since any...

Guangbo Xu's Seminar

Oct
07
2022

Guangbo Xu's Seminar

Fukaya-Ono-Parker perturbations and integral counts of curves
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Curve counting invariants such as Gromov-Witten invariants are rational numbers in general because they are essentially certain orbifold Euler characteristics. In 1997 Fukaya-Ono proposed that by using the complex nature of the pseudoholomorphic...

Oct
14
2022

Guangbo Xu's Seminar

Derived orbifold chart lifts of flow categories and bimodules
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In Hamiltonian Floer theory one needs to regularize infinitely many moduli spaces. It is convenient to formalize the discussion using the language of flow categories and bimodules. In this lecture I will explain how to use the notion of "derived...

Oct
18
2022

Guangbo Xu's Seminar

AMS construction for Floer moduli spaces
1:00pm|West Lecture Hall and Remote Access

I will explain how to generalize Abouzaid-McLean-Smith's construction to Floer moduli spaces. As we need to regularize infinitely many moduli spaces, we need to make choices consistently. We also need to generalize the smoothing theory to the...

Oct
20
2022

Guangbo Xu's Seminar

Derived orbifold chart lifts of flow categories and bimodules
1:00pm|West Lecture Hall and Remote Access

It is convenient to formalize the discussion about Hamiltonian Floer theory using the language of flow categories and bimodules. In this lecture I will explain how to use the notion of "derived orbifold chart lift" of flow categories and bimodules...

Guest Lecture in Geometric PDE

Nov
04
2008

Guest Lecture in Geometric PDE

Complete Conformal Metrics of Negative Ricci Curvature on Compact Riemannian Manifolds with Boundary
Bo Guan
1:30pm|S-101

We consider the problem of finding complete conformal metrics determined by a symmetric function of Ricci tensor in a negative convex cone on compact manifolds. A consequence of our main results is that any smooth bounded domain in Euclidean space...

Nov
04
2008

Guest Lecture in Geometric PDE

Applications of Twistor Theory in Conformal Geometry
Jeff Viaclovsky
2:30pm|S-101

I will discuss how some questions in conformal geometry can be answered using twistor theory. One such application is to the classification of locally conformally flat Hermitian surfaces. Another application is to determining the conformal...

Nov
26
2008

Guest Lecture in Geometric PDE

Second Order Parabolic and Elliptic Equations With Very Rough Coefficients
1:30pm|S-101

A well-known example by N. N. Ural'tseva suggests that for fixed p > 2 there is no unique $W^2_p$-solvability of elliptic equations under p > the condition that the leading coefficients are measurable in two spatial variables. We will present a...

Harmonic Analysis Afternoon

Dec
07
2022

Harmonic Analysis Afternoon

An Introduction to the Decoupling of Higher Dimensional, Zero Curvature Hypersurfaces
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The ruled hypersurfaces are distinguished by being comprised of lines. When this characteristic exists as a consequence of vanishing principal curvatures, it yields possibilities for comparison with cylinders extending over lower-dimensional...

Dec
07
2022

Harmonic Analysis Afternoon

A Fractal Uncertainty Principle for Discrete 2D Cantor Sets
Alex Cohen
3:15pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

A fractal uncertainty principle (FUP) states that a function `f' and its Fourier transform cannot both be large on a fractal set. These were recently introduced by Semyon Dyatlov and collaborators in order to prove new results in quantum chaos. So...