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= Mathematics Colloquium =


= Mathematics Colloquium =
All colloquia are on Fridays at 4:00 pm in Van Vleck B239, '''unless otherwise indicated'''.  The calendar for spring 2019 can be found [[Colloquia/Spring2019|here]].


All colloquia are on Fridays at 4:00 pm in Van Vleck B239, '''unless otherwise indicated'''.
== Fall 2018 ==


===[[Fall 2016 | Tentative schedule Fall 2016]]===


== Spring 2016  ==
 
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{| cellpadding="8"
!align="left" | date
!align="left" | date  
!align="left" | speaker
!align="left" | speaker
!align="left" | title
!align="left" | title
!align="left" | host(s)
!align="left" | host(s)
|-
|-
| '''January 22'''
|Sep 12, 14
|<!--[https://web.math.princeton.edu/~caraiani/ Ana Caraiani] (Princeton)-->
| [https://sites.math.washington.edu/~gunther/ Gunther Uhlmann] (Univ. of Washington) Distinguished Lecture series
| <!-- [[Colloquia#September 11:  Speaker (University) | title]] -->
|[[# TBATBA ]]
| <!--Host-->
| Li
|-
|
| '''January 28 (Th 4pm VV901)'''
|  [https://web.math.princeton.edu/~ssivek/ Steven Sivek] (Princeton)
|     [[Colloquia#September 11:  Speaker (University) | The augmentation category of a Legendrian knot]]  
| Ellenberg
|-
| '''January 29'''
|[https://web.math.princeton.edu/~caraiani/ Ana Caraiani] (Princeton)
|  [[Colloquia#September 11:  Ana Caraiani (Princeton) | Locally symmetric spaces, torsion classes, and the geometry of period domains]]
| Ellenberg
|-
| '''February 5'''
|[http://math.uchicago.edu/~souganidis/ Takis Souganidis] (University of Chicago)
| [[Colloquia#September 11:  Takis Souganidis (University of Chicago) | Scalar Conservation Laws with Rough Dependence]]
| Lin
|-
|-
| '''February 12'''
|Sep 21
|[http://www.math.cmu.edu/~gautam/sj/index.html Gautam Iyer] (CMU)  
| Andrew Stuart (Caltech) LAA lecture
| [[Colloquia#February 12: Gautam Iyer (CMU)| Homogenization and Anomalous Diffusion]]
|[[# TBA|  TBA ]]
| Jean-Luc
| Jin
|
|-
|-
| '''February 19'''
|Sep 28
| [https://people.math.osu.edu/lafont.1/ Jean-François Lafont] (Ohio State)  
| Gautam Iyer (CMU)
| [[Colloquia#February 19: Jean-François Lafont (Ohio State) | Rigidity and flexibility of almost-isometries]]
|[[# TBA|  TBA ]]
| Dymarz
| Thiffeault
|
|-
|-
| '''February 26'''
|Oct 5
|Hiroyoshi Mitake (Hiroshima university)    
| person (institution)
| [[Colloquia#February 26: Hiroyoshi Mitake (Hiroshima university) | On asymptotic speed of the crystal growth]]
|[[# TBA| TBA ]]
| Tran
| hosting faculty
|
|-
|-
| '''March 4'''
|Oct 12
| [http://www.columbia.edu/~gb2030/ Guillaume Bal] (Columbia University)
| Arie Levit (Yale)
| <!-- [[Colloquia#September 11: Speaker (University) | title]] -->
|[[# TBA|  TBA ]]
| Li, Jin
| Gurevich
|
|-
|-
| '''March 11'''
|Oct 19
| [http://math.umn.edu/~luskin Mitchell Luskin] (University of Minnesota)
| Jeremy Teitelbaum (U Connecticut)
| [[Colloquia#March 11: Mitchell Luskin (UMN) | Mathematical Modeling of Incommensurate 2D Materials]]
|[[# TBA|  TBA ]]
| Li
| Boston
|
|-
|-
| '''March 18'''
|Oct 26
| [http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~spatzier/ Ralf Spatzier] (University of Michigan)  
| Douglas Ulmer (Arizona)
| [[Colloquia#March 18: Ralf Spatzier (University of Michigan) | TBA]]
|[[# TBA| TBA ]]
| Dymarz
| Yang
|
|-
|-
| '''March 25'''
|Nov 2
| Spring Break<!-- [webpage Speaker Name] (University) -->   
| Reserved for job talk
| <!-- [[Colloquia#September 11: Speaker (University) | title]] -->
|[[# TBA|  TBA ]]
| <!-- host -->
| hosting faculty
|
|-
|-
| '''April 1'''
|Nov 9
| [http://www.math.uci.edu/~cterng/ Chuu-Lian Terng] (UC Irvine)   
| Reserved for job talk
| [[Colloquia#April 1: Chuu-Lian Terng (UC Irvine) | TBA]]  
|[[# TBA| TBA ]]
| Mari-Beffa
| hosting faculty
|
|-
|-
| '''April 8'''
|Nov 16
| [https://web.math.princeton.edu/~aionescu/ Alexandru Ionescu] (Princeton) 
| Reserved for job talk
| [[Colloquia#April 8: Alexandru Ionescu (Princeton) | TBA]]  
|[[# TBA| TBA ]]
| Wainger/Seeger
| hosting faculty
|
|-
|-
| '''April 15'''
|Nov 30
| [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/mathematics/people/atoz/wigmani.aspx Igor Wigman] (King's College - London)
| Reserved for job talk
| [[Colloquia#September 11: Speaker (University) |Nodal Domains of Eigenfunctions]]
|[[# TBA|  TBA ]]
| Gurevich/Marshall
| hosting faculty
|
|-
|-
| '''April 22'''
|Dec 7
| [http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~bourgade/ Paul Bourgade] (NYU)
| Reserved for job talk
| [[Colloquia#April 22: Paul Bourgade (NYU) | TBA]]
|[[# TBA| TBA ]]
| Seppalainen/Valko
| hosting faculty
|
|-
|-
| '''April 29'''
|date
| [http://www.physics.upenn.edu/~kamien/kamiengroup/ Randall Kamien] (U Penn)  
| person (institution)
| [[Colloquia#April 29: Randall Kamien (U Penn) | TBA]]  
|[[# TBA| TBA ]]
| Spagnolie
| hosting faculty
|-
|
| '''May 6'''
| [https://www.math.upenn.edu/~shaneson/ Julius Shaneson] (University of Pennsylvania)   
|  [[Colloquia#September 11:  Julius Shaneson (University of Pennsylvania) | TBA]]
| Maxim/Kjuchukova
|}
|}


== Abstracts ==
== Abstracts ==


=== <DATE>: <PERSON> (INSTITUTION) ===
Title: <TITLE>


=== January 28: Steven Sivek (Princeton) ===
Abstract: <ABSTRACT>
Title: The augmentation category of a Legendrian knot


Abstract: A well-known principle in symplectic geometry says that information about the smooth structure on a manifold should be captured by the symplectic geometry of its cotangent bundle.  One prominent example of this is Nadler and Zaslow's microlocalization correspondence, an equivalence between a category of constructible sheaves on a manifold and a symplectic invariant of its cotangent bundle called the Fukaya category.


The goal of this talk is to describe a model for a relative version of this story in the simplest case, corresponding to Legendrian knots in the standard contact 3-space.  This construction, called the augmentation category, is a powerful invariant which is defined in terms of holomorphic curves but can also be described combinatorially.  I will describe some interesting properties of this category and relate it to a category of sheaves on the plane.  This is joint work with Lenny Ng, Dan Rutherford, Vivek Shende, and Eric Maslow.


=== January 29: Ana Caraiani (Princeton) ===
== Past Colloquia ==
Title:  Locally symmetric spaces, torsion classes, and the geometry of period domains
 
Abstract:  The Langlands program is an intricate network of conjectures, which are meant to connect different areas of mathematics, such as number theory, harmonic analysis and representation theory. One striking consequence of the Langlands program is the Ramanujan conjecture, which is a statement purely within harmonic analysis, about the growth rate of Fourier coefficients of modular forms. It turns out to be intimately connected to the Weil conjectures, a statement about the cohomology of projective, smooth varieties defined over finite fields.
 
I will explain this connection and then move towards a mod p analogue of these ideas. More precisely, I will explain a strategy for understanding torsion occurring in the cohomology of locally symmetric spaces and how to detect which degrees torsion will contribute to. The main theorem is joint work with Peter Scholze and relies on a p-adic version of Hodge theory and on recent developments in p-adic geometry.
 
 
=== February 5: Takis Souganidis (University of Chicago) ===
Title:  Scalar Conservation Laws with Rough Dependence
 
I will present a recently developed theory for scalar conservation laws with nonlinear multiplicative rough signal dependence. I will describe the difficulties, introduce the notion of pathwise entropy/kinetic solution and its well-posedness. I will also talk about the long time behavior of the solutions as well as some regularization by noise type results.
 
=== February 12:  Gautam Iyer (CMU) ===
 
Homogenization and Anomalous Diffusion


Homogenization is a well known technique used to approximate the macroscopic behaviour of a material with microscopic impurities.
[[Colloquia/Blank|Blank]]
While this originally arose in the study of composite materials, it has applications to various other fields, and I will focus on a few results
motivated by fluid dynamics. One well known result in this direction is by GI Taylor estimating the dispersion rate of a solute in a pipe. The
length scales involved in typical pipelines, however, are too short for this result to apply. I will conclude with a few recent "intermediate time" results describing the effective behaviour in scaling regimes outside those of standard homogenization results.


=== February 19: Jean-François Lafont (Ohio State) ===
[[Colloquia/Spring2018|Spring 2018]]


Rigidity and flexibility of almost-isometries
[[Colloquia/Fall2017|Fall 2017]]


An almost isometry (AI) is a quasi-isometry (QI) with multiplicative
[[Colloquia/Spring2017|Spring 2017]]
constant =1. Given two metrics on a closed manifold, Milnor-Swarc implies
that the lifted metrics on the universal cover are QI to each other. When are
they AI to each other? In the rigidity direction, we give various examples
where the only time such lifts are AI is when they are isometric (joint with
Kar and Schmidt). In the flexible direction, we show that for higher genus
surfaces, any two metrics have lifts which, after possibly scaling one of the
lifted metrics, are AI to each other (joint with Schmidt and van Limbeek). In
the latter examples, one can further show that the AI is usually not equivariant
with respect to the group actions.


=== February 26: Hiroyoshi Mitake (Hiroshima university) ===
[[Archived Fall 2016 Colloquia|Fall 2016]]
In the talk, I will propose a model equation to study the crystal growth as a prototype, which is described by a level-set mean curvature flow equation with driving and source terms. We establish the well-posedness of solutions, and study the asymptotic speed. Interestingly, a new type of nonlinear phenomena in terms of asymptotic speed of solutions appears because of the double nonlinear effects coming from the surface evolution and the source term, which is sensitive to the shapes of source terms. This is a joint work with Y. Giga (U. Tokyo), and H. V. Tran (U. Wisconsin-Madison).


=== March 11: Mitchell Luskin (UMN) ===
[[Colloquia/Spring2016|Spring 2016]]
Title: Mathematical Modeling of Incommensurate 2D Materials
 
Abstract: Incommensurate materials are found in crystals, liquid crystals, and quasi-crystals. Stacking a few layers of 2D materials such as graphene and molybdenum disulfide, for example, opens the possibility to tune the elastic, electronic, and optical properties of these materials. One of the main issues encountered in the mathematical modeling of layered 2D materials is that lattice mismatch and rotations between the layers destroys the periodic character of the system. This leads to complex commensurate-incommensurate transitions and pattern formation.
 
Even basic concepts like the Cauchy-Born strain energy density, the electronic density of states, and the Kubo-Greenwood formulas for transport properties have not been given a rigorous analysis in the incommensurate setting. New approximate approaches will be discussed and the validity and efficiency of these approximations will be examined from mathematical and numerical analysis perspectives.
====  ====
 
== Past Colloquia ==


[[Colloquia/Fall2015|Fall 2015]]
[[Colloquia/Fall2015|Fall 2015]]

Revision as of 06:08, 18 July 2018

Mathematics Colloquium

All colloquia are on Fridays at 4:00 pm in Van Vleck B239, unless otherwise indicated. The calendar for spring 2019 can be found here.

Fall 2018

date speaker title host(s)
Sep 12, 14 Gunther Uhlmann (Univ. of Washington) Distinguished Lecture series TBA Li
Sep 21 Andrew Stuart (Caltech) LAA lecture TBA Jin
Sep 28 Gautam Iyer (CMU) TBA Thiffeault
Oct 5 person (institution) TBA hosting faculty
Oct 12 Arie Levit (Yale) TBA Gurevich
Oct 19 Jeremy Teitelbaum (U Connecticut) TBA Boston
Oct 26 Douglas Ulmer (Arizona) TBA Yang
Nov 2 Reserved for job talk TBA hosting faculty
Nov 9 Reserved for job talk TBA hosting faculty
Nov 16 Reserved for job talk TBA hosting faculty
Nov 30 Reserved for job talk TBA hosting faculty
Dec 7 Reserved for job talk TBA hosting faculty
date person (institution) TBA hosting faculty

Abstracts

<DATE>: <PERSON> (INSTITUTION)

Title: <TITLE>

Abstract: <ABSTRACT>


Past Colloquia

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Spring 2018

Fall 2017

Spring 2017

Fall 2016

Spring 2016

Fall 2015

Spring 2015

Fall 2014

Spring 2014

Fall 2013

Spring 2013

Fall 2012