Video Lectures

Abstract: Finding non-constant harmonic 3-spheres for a closed target manifold N is a prototype of a super-critical variational problem. In fact, the
direct method fails, as the infimum of the Dirichlet energy in any homotopy class of maps from the...

Abstract: The spacetime positive mass theorem says that an asymptotically flat initial data set with the dominant energy condition must have a timelike energy-momentum vector, unless the initial data set is in the Minkowski spacetime. We will review...

Abstract: Functional Determinants are quantities constructed out of spectra of conformally covariant operators, and are explicit in dimension two and four, due to formulas by Polyakov and Branson-Oersted. Extremizing them in a conformal class...

Abstract: I will talk about periodic geodesics, geodesic loops, and geodesic nets on Riemannian manifolds. More specifically, I will discuss some curvature-free upper bounds for compact manifolds and the existence results for non-compact manifolds...

I will talk about a recent result showing that some well-studied polynomial-based error-correcting codes (Folded Reed-Solomon Codes and Multiplicity Codes) are "list-decodable upto capacity with constant list-size".

At its core, this is a statement...

Abstract : What are the possible limits of smooth curvatures with uniformly bounded $L^p$ norms ?

We shall see that the attempts to give a satisfying answer to this natural question from the calculus of variation of gauge theory brings us to numerous...

The emerging theory of High-Dimensional Expansion suggests a number of inherently different notions to quantify expansion of simplicial complexes. We will talk about the notion of local spectral expansion, that plays a key role in recent advances in...

It is conjectured that contact manifolds admitting flexible fillings have unique exact fillings. In this talk, I will show that exact fillings (with vanishing first Chern class) of a flexibly fillable contact (2n-1)-manifold share the same product...

Computing volumes of moduli spaces has significance in many fields. For instance, Witten's conjecture regarding intersection numbers on the Deligne–Mumford moduli space of stable Riemann surfaces has a fascinating connection to the Weil–Petersson...