# Seminars & Events for 2015-2016

October 21, 2015
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### Probabilistic interpretation of conservation laws and optimal transport in one dimension
###### Probability Seminar

We consider partial differential equations that describe the conservation of one or several quantities, possibly taking an additional dissipation mechanism into account, set on the real line. Such models are for instance relevant in gas dynamics or in the study of road traffic.

Speaker: Julien Reygner, Paris Tech
Location:
Fine Hall 214
October 22, 2015
12:30pm - 1:30pm
##### Composition laws

We will first look at Gauß's classical composition law for binary integral quadratic forms and some of its applications. Then, we describe a few special cases of Bhargava's higher composition laws.

Speaker: Fabian Gundlach, Princeton University
Location:
Fine Hall 110
October 22, 2015
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Quantum invariants in the (oriented) knot Floer cube of resolutions
###### Topology Seminar

Using filtrations on the knot Floer cube of resolutions, I will define a triply graded invariant that categorifies the HOMFLY-PT polynomial and has a spectral sequence converging to HFK. Along the way I will discuss relationships between this construction and deformations of sl(n) homology.

Speaker: Nathan Dowlin, Princeton University
Location:
Fine Hall 314
October 22, 2015
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Space-time resonances and high-frequency instabilities in the two-fluid Euler-Maxwell system
###### Analysis of Fluids and Related Topics

We show that space-time resonances induce high-frequency instabilities in the two-fluid Euler-Maxwell system. This implies in particular that the Zakharov approximation to Euler-Maxwell is stable if and only if the group velocity vanishes in the Schrödinger equation satisfied by the envelope of the WKB electrical field.

Speaker: Benjamin Texier, Paris 7
Location:
Fine Hall 322
October 22, 2015
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### A proportionality of scalar curvatures on Hermitian manifolds and Schrödinger operators
###### Differential Geometry & Geometric Analysis Seminar

Please note special day, time and location.   On a Kähler manifold there is a clear connection between the complex geometry and underlying Riemannian geometry. However, in the non-Kähler setting, such a link is not so obvious.

Speaker: Mike Lock, University of Texas at Austin
Location:
Fine Hall 601
October 22, 2015
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Unlikely Intersections For Two-Parameter Families of Polynomials
###### Princeton University/IAS Number Theory Seminar

Inspired by work of Masser and Zannier for torsion specializations of points on the Legendre elliptic curve, Baker and DeMarco proved that if v,w are two points in C, then there are at most finitely many t in C such that v and w are both preperiodic for the polynomial x^2 + t, unless of course v equals plus or minus w.  Here we prove a two-dimensional version of this result, namely that if v, w

Speaker: Tom Tucker , Rochester University
Location:
Fine Hall 214
October 22, 2015
4:30pm - 6:00pm
##### On graphs decomposable into induced matchings of linear size
###### Discrete Mathematics Seminar

A Ruzsa-Szemeredi graph'' is a graph on n vertices whose edge set can be partitioned into induced matchings of size cn. The study of these graphs goes back more than 35 years and has connections with number theory, combinatorics, complexity theory and information theory. In this talk we will discuss the history and some recent developments in this area.

Speaker: Hao Huang , Emory University
Location:
Fine Hall 224
October 23, 2015
1:30pm - 2:30pm
##### An overview of Benjamini-Schramm convergence in group theory and dynamics
###### Minerva mini-course

When studying an infinite geometric object or graph it is natural to want a "good" finite or bounded model for the sake of computations. But what does "good" mean here? This notion is formalized by Benjamini-Schramm convergence: "good" means that locally the finite object looks like the infinite one, except for a small density of singularities.

Speaker: Lewis Bowen, University of Texas, Austin & Princeton University
Location:
Fine Hall 110
October 23, 2015
2:00pm - 3:00pm
##### Dehn twists exact sequences through Lagrangian cobordism
###### Joint PU/IAS Symplectic Geometry Seminar

In this talk we first introduce a new "singularity-free" approach to the proof of Seidel's long exact sequence, including the fixed-point version. This conveniently generalizes to Dehn twists along Lagrangian submanifolds which are rank one symmetric spaces and their covers, including RP^n and CP^n, matching a mirror prediction due to Huybrechts and Thomas.

Speaker: Weiwei Wu , University of Montreal
Location:
IAS Room S-101
October 23, 2015
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### Motion by curvature in the subriemannian Heisenberg group
###### Differential Geometry & Geometric Analysis Seminar

In this talk we will present some properties of the motion by curvature in subriemannian setting. This describes the motion of a surface when each point is moving in the normal direction with speed proportional to the mean curvature.

Speaker: Giovanna Citti, Universita Di Bologna
Location:
Fine Hall 314
October 23, 2015
4:15pm - 5:15pm
##### Minimal surfaces of finite total curvature in Hˆ2xR
###### Differential Geometry & Geometric Analysis Seminar

Please note special time (4:15).  In this talk we will present some recent developments in the theory of finite total curvature minimal surfaces in Hˆ2xR and we will show a characterization for such surfaces in terms of their behavior at infinity. This is a joint work with Hauswirth and Rodriguez.

Speaker: Ana Menezes , Princeton University
Location:
Fine Hall 314
October 24, 2015
9:00am - 6:00pm
##### Celebration of the Life and Work of John F. Nash, Jr.
###### Special Events and Conferences

Lectures on Nash’s work:
(All talks will be in McDonnell A02)

Speaker: ,
Location:
McDonnell Hall A02
October 26, 2015
3:15pm - 4:30pm
##### On the global dynamics of three dimensional imcompressible magnetohydrodynamics
###### Analysis Seminar

We construct and study global solutions for the 3-dimensional imcompressible MHD systems with arbitrary small viscosity.

Speaker: Pin Yu , YMSC, Tsinghua University & CMSA, Harvard Univesity
Location:
Fine Hall 110
October 26, 2015
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### The master equation and the convergence problem in mean-field games
###### PACM/Applied Mathematics Colloquium

We discuss the convergence, as $N$ tends to infinity, of a system of $N$ coupled Hamilton-Jacobi equations, called the Nash system. This system arises in differential game theory. We describe the limit problem in terms of the so-called master equation", a kind of second order partial differential equation stated on the space of probability measures.

Speaker: François Delarue , Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Location:
Fine Hall 214
October 27, 2015
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### Random regular digraphs: singularity and spectrum
###### Probability Seminar

Please note special day (Tuesday).    We consider two random matrix ensembles associated to large random regular digraphs: (1) the 0/1 adjacency matrix, and (2) the adjacency matrix with iid bounded edge weights. Motivated by universality conjectures, we show that the spectral distribution for the latter ensemble is asymptotically described by the circular law, assuming the gra

Speaker: Nicholas Cook , UCLA
Location:
Fine Hall 214
October 27, 2015
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Schramm -- Loewner Evolution and Liouville Quantum Multifractality
###### Mathematical Physics Seminar

We describe some recent advances in the study of the fundamental coupling of a canonical model of random paths, the Schramm--Loewner Evolution (SLE), to a canonical model of random surfaces, Liouville Quantum Gravity (LQG). The latter is expected to be the conformally invariant continuum limit of various models of random planar maps.

Speaker: Bertrand Duplantier, Institut de Physique Theorique, France
Location:
October 27, 2015
4:30pm - 6:00pm
##### Toric degenerations and symplectic geometry of projective varieties
###### Algebraic Geometry Seminar

I will explain some recent general results about symplectic geometry of projective varieties using toric degenerations (motivated by commutative algebra and the theory of Newton-Okounkov bodies). The main result is the following: Let X be a smooth n-dimensional complex projective variety equipped with an integral Kahler form.

Speaker: Kiumars Kaveh , University of Pittsburgh
Location:
Fine Hall 322
October 28, 2015
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### The maximum of the characteristic polynomial of random unitary matrices
###### Probability Seminar

A recent conjecture of Fyodorov, Hiary & Keating (FHK) states that the maxima of the characteristic polynomial of random unitary matrices behave like the maxima of a specific class of Gaussian fields, the so-called log-correlated Gaussian fields. These include important examples such as branching Brownian motion and the 2D Gaussian free field.

Speaker: Louis-Pierre Arguin, CUNY
Location:
Fine Hall 214
October 29, 2015
12:30pm - 1:30pm
##### Geometric identities on moduli spaces and their applications

We will discuss the Bridgeman-Kahn and Mirzakhani-McShane identities on moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces. As applications, we will look at Bridgeman’s proof of the classical Abel identity and Mirzakhani’s work on Weil-Petersson volumes of moduli spaces of bordered Riemann surfaces.

Speaker: Andrew Yarmola, Princeton University
Location:
Fine Hall 110
October 29, 2015
2:00pm - 3:30pm
##### TBA - Maria Avdeeva
###### Ergodic Theory & Statistical Mechanics
Speaker: Maria Avdeeva, Princeton University
Location:
Fine Hall 601