Video Lectures

In the 60's Almgren initiated a program for developing Morse theory on the space of flat cycles. I will discuss some simplifications, generalizations and quantitative versions of Almgren's results about the topology of the space of flat cycles and...

I will survey new lower-bound methods in communication complexity that "lift" lower bounds from decision tree complexity. These methods have recently enabled progress on core questions in communication complexity (log-rank conjecture, classical-...

An outstanding problem in smooth ergodic theory is the estimation from below of Lyapunov exponents for maps which exhibit hyperbolicity on a large but non- invariant subset of phase space. It is notoriously difficult to show that Lypaunov exponents...

In this talk we explain how billiard dynamics can be used to relate a symplectic isoperimetric-type conjecture by Viterbo with an 80-years old open conjecture by Mahler regarding the volume product of convex bodies. The talk is based on a joint work...

We will present the project of using the Willmore elastic energy as a quasi-Morse function to explore the topology of immersions of the 2-sphere into Euclidean spaces and explain how this relates to the classical theory of complete minimal surfaces...

A translator for mean curvature flow is a hypersurface $M$ with the property that translation is a mean curvature flow. That is, if the translation is $t\rightarrow M+t\vec{v}$, then the normal component of the velocity vector $\vec{v}$ is equal to...

Given a Weinstein domain $M$ and a compactly supported, exact symplectomorphism $\phi$, one can construct the open symplectic mapping torus $T_\phi$. Its contact boundary is independent of $\phi$ and thus $T_\phi$ gives a Weinstein filling of $T_0...