# Upcoming Seminars & Events

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November 20, 2017
2:00pm - 2:50pm
##### CR invariant area functionals and the singular CR Yamabe solutions on the Heisenberg of H^{1}.
###### Special Seminar in Geometric Analysis

Joint seminar with Rutgers University.

Speaker: Paul Yang, Princeton University
Location:
Fine Hall 224
November 20, 2017
3:00pm - 3:50pm
##### Isoperimetric inequalities on surfaces
###### Special Seminar in Geometric Analysis

I will describe several recent results concerning extremal metrics and values of isoperimetric constants on different surfaces like the 2-sphere, the real projective plane or the Klein bottle. The idea is to find a metric realizing the supremum of a given eigenvalue over the whole set of Riemannian metrics on the surface. This problem (and its solutions) has a very strong link with the theory of harmonic maps.

Speaker: Yannick Sire, ,John Hopkins University
Location:
Fine Hall 224
November 20, 2017
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### Regularity and structure of scalar conservation laws
###### Analysis Seminar

Scalar conservation law equations develop jump discontinuities even when the initial data is smooth. Ideally, we would expect these discontinuities to be confined to a collection of codimension-one surfaces, and the solution to be relatively smoother away from these jumps. The picture is less clear for rough initial data which is merely bounded. While a linear transport equation may have arbitrarily rough solutions, genuinly nonlinear conservation laws have a subtle regularization effect.

Speaker: Luis Silvestre, U Chicago
Location:
Fine Hall 314
November 20, 2017
4:00pm - 5:00pm
##### The mathematics of charged liquid drops
###### PACM/Applied Mathematics Colloquium

In this talk, I will present an overview of recent analytical developments in the studies of equilibrium configurations of liquid drops in the presence of repulsive Coulombic forces. Due to the fundamental nature of Coulombic interaction, these problems arise in systems of very different physical nature and on vastly different scales: from femtometer scale of a single atomic nucleus to micrometer scale of droplets in electrosprays to kilometer scale of neutron stars.

Speaker: Cyrill Muratov, NJ Institute of Technology
Location:
Fine Hall 214
November 21, 2017
4:00pm - 5:00pm
##### Uniqueness of blow-ups and asymptotic decay for Dirichlet energy minimizing multi-valued functions
###### Differential Geometry & Geometric Analysis Seminar

*Please note special date and time.   In the early 1980's Almgren developed a theory of Dirichlet energy minimizing multi-valued functions, proving that the Hausdorff dimension of the singular set (including branch points) of such a function is at most (n-2) where n is the dimension of its domain. Almgren used this bound in an essential way to show that the same upper bound holds for the dimension of the singular set of an area minimizing n-dimensional rectifiable current of arbitrary codimension.

Speaker: Neshan Wickramasekera, Cambridge University
Location:
Fine Hall 801
November 21, 2017
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Noether-Lefschetz locus on singular threefolds
###### Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The classical Noether-Lefschetz theorem says that any curve in a very general surface X in P^3  of degree d \geq 4 is a restriction of a surface in the ambient space, in particular the Picard number of X is 1 (a property is very general if it holds in the complement of countably many proper closed subvarieties).

The Noether-Lefschetz locus S_d is the locus of the degree d \geq 4 surfaces in P^3 whose Picard number is greater than 1. I will discuss

generalizations and applications to singular ambient spaces, and also

Speaker: Antonella Grassi, UPenn
Location:
Fine Hall 322
November 21, 2017
4:45pm - 5:45pm
##### Joint Equidistribution of CM Points
###### Princeton University/IAS Number Theory Seminar

A celebrated theorem of Duke states that Picard/Galois orbits of CM points on a complex modular curve equidistribute in the limit when the absolute value of the discriminant goes to infinity.

The equidistribution of Picard and Galois orbits of special points in products of modular curves was conjectured by Michel and Venkatesh and as part of the equidistribution strengthening of the André-Oort conjecture. I will explain the proof of a recent theorem making progress towards this conjecture.

Speaker: Ilya Khayutin, Princeton University
Location:
IAS Room S-101
November 27, 2017
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### Stochastic homogenization: renormalization, regularity, and quantitative estimates
###### Analysis Seminar

There has been a lot of work in recent years on the problem of understanding the behavior of solutions of PDEs with random coefficients, with most of the work focused on linear elliptic equations in divergence form. I will give an overview of recent joint works with Smart, Kuusi and Mourrat in which we introduce a renormalization group" method, which leads to a very precise, quantitative description of the solutions.

Speaker: Scott Armstrong, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Location:
Fine Hall 314
November 27, 2017
4:00pm - 5:00pm
##### Two problems involving breakup of a liquid film
###### PACM/Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Understanding the breakup of a liquid film is complicated by the fact that there is no obvious instability driving breakup: surface tension favors a film of uniform thickness over a deformed one. Here, we identify two mechanisms driving a film toward (infinite time) pinch-off. In the first problem, we show how the rise of a bubble is arrested in a narrow tube, on account of the lubricating film pinching off. In the second problem, breakup of a free liquid film is driven by a strong temperature gradient across the pinch region.

Speaker: Jens Eggers, Bristol University
Location:
Fine Hall 214
November 27, 2017
4:00pm - 5:00pm
##### TBA-Yu-Shen Lin
###### Joint PU/IAS Symplectic Geometry Seminar
Speaker: Yu-Shen Lin, CMSA, Harvard University
Location:
IAS Room S-101
November 28, 2017
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### TBA-Xudong Zheng
###### Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Speaker: Xudong Zheng , Johns Hopkins
Location:
Fine Hall 322
November 28, 2017
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### TBA - Dr. Efi Efrati
###### Mathematical Physics Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Efi Efrati, Weizmann Institute
Location:
November 29, 2017
2:30pm - 3:30pm
##### TBA-Gal Mishne
###### PACM IDeAS
Speaker: Gal Mishne, Yale University
Location:
Fine Hall 224
November 29, 2017
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### TBA-Timo Seppalainen
###### Probability Seminar
Speaker: Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin
Location:
Fine Hall 214
November 29, 2017
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Regularity of area-minimizing surfaces in higher codimension: old and new
###### Department Colloquium

The theory of integral currents, developed by Federer and Fleming in the 60s, gives a powerful framework to solve the Plateau's problem in every dimension and codimension. The interior and boundary regularity theory for the codimension

one case is  rather well understood, thanks to the work of several mathematicians in the 60es, 70es and 80es.

Speaker: Camillo De Lellis, Institut fuer Mathematik Universitaet Zuerich
Location:
Fine Hall 314
November 30, 2017
12:30pm - 1:30pm
##### TBA-Amina Abdurrahman
Speaker: Amina Abdurrahman, Princeton University
Location:
Fine Hall 110
November 30, 2017
1:30pm - 3:30pm
##### TBA-Joel Moreira
###### Ergodic Theory & Statistical Mechanics
Speaker: Joel Moreira, Northwestern University
Location:
Fine Hall 1001
November 30, 2017
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### TBA-Suyoung Choi
###### Algebraic Topology Seminar
Speaker: Suyoung Choi, Ajou University/Northeastern University
Location:
Fine Hall 110
November 30, 2017
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### TBA-Serguei Denissov
###### Analysis of Fluids and Related Topics
Speaker: Serguei Denissov, University of Wisconsin
Location:
Fine Hall 322
November 30, 2017
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Irreducible SL(2,C)-representations of integer homology 3-spheres
###### Topology Seminar

We prove that the splicing of any two non-trivial knots in the 3-sphere admits an irreducible SU(2)-representation of its fundamental group. This uses instanton gauge theory, and in particular a non-vanishing result of Kronheimer-Mrowka and some new results that we establish for holonomy perturbations of the ASD equation.

Speaker: Raphael Zentner, University of Regensburg (Germany)
Location:
Fine Hall 314