Members Seminar

After introducing an elementary criterion for a real number to be irrational, I will discuss Apery's famous result proving the irrationality of \(\zeta(3)\). Then I will give an overview of subsequent results in this field, and finally propose a...

Localization is a topological technique that allows us to make global equivariant computations in terms of local data at the fixed points. For example, we may compute a global integral by summing integrals at each of the fixed points. Or, if we know...

My talk will be a broad introduction to what is the (mostly conjectural) higher dimensional generalization of Abel's theorem on divisors on Riemann surfaces, namely, the relationship between the structure of the group of algebraic cycles on a...

If \(M\) is a complex manifold, the Bott-Chern cohomology \(H_{\mathrm{BC}}^{(\cdot,\cdot)}\left(M,\mathbf{C}\right)\) of \(M\) is a refinement of de Rham cohomology, that takes into account the \((p,q)\) grading of smooth differential forms. By...

Constant mean curvature (CMC) tori in \(S^3\), \(R^3\) or \(H^3\) are in bijective correspondence with spectral curve data, consisting of a hyperelliptic curve, a line bundle on this curve and some additional data, which in particular determines the...

We revisit the question, originally posed by Yao (1982), of whether encryption security may be characterized using computational information. Yao provided an affirmative answer, using a compression-based notion of computational information to give a...

The Grothendieck ring of varieties over \(k\) is defined to be the free abelian group generated by varieties over \(k\), modulo the relation \([X] = [Y] + [X \backslash Y]\) for all \(X\) and closed subvarieties \(Y\). Multiplication is induced by...

We discuss various Gaussian ensembles for real homogeneous polynomials in several variables and the question of the distribution of the topologies of the connected components of the zero sets of a typical such random real hypersurface. For the "real...

After a brief review of various classical connections between problems of polynomial zero localization, continued fractions, and matrix theory, I will show a few ways to generalize these classical techniques to get new results about some interesting...

Consider a rational homogeneous variety \(X\). (For example, take \(X\) to be the Grassmannian \(\mathrm{Gr}(k,n)\) of \(k\)-planes in complex \(n\)-space.) The Schubert classes of \(X\) form a free additive basis of the integral homology of \(X\)...