# Upcoming Seminars & Events

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November 2, 2017
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### TBA-Alex Scott
###### Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Speaker: Alex Scott, Oxford University
Location:
Fine Hall 224
November 2, 2017
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### On the notion of genus for division algebras and algebraic groups.
###### Princeton University/IAS Number Theory Seminar

Let D be a central division algebra of degree n over a field K. One defines the genus gen(D) of D as the set of classes [D'] in the Brauer group Br(K) where D' is a central division K-algebra of degree n having the same isomorphism classes of maximal subfields as D. I will review the results on gen(D) obtained in the last several years, in particular the finiteness theorem for gen(D) when K is finitely generated of characteristic not dividing n.

Speaker: Andrei Rapinchuk , University of Virginia
Location:
IAS Room S-101
November 6, 2017
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### Nonlinear stability of Minkowski spacetime for self-gravitating massive fields
###### Analysis Seminar

I will discuss the global evolution problem for self-gravitating massive matter in the context of Einstein's theory and, more generally, of the f(R)-theory of gravity. In collaboration with Yue Ma (Xian), by analyzing the Einstein equations in wave gauge coupled to Klein-Gordon equations, I have established that Minkowski spacetime is globally nonlinearly stable in presence of massive fields. This extends fundamental works by Christodoulou and Klainerman and by Lindblad and Rodnianski, who were concerned with vacuum spacetimes and massless fields.

Speaker: Phillippe LeFloch , Paris 6
Location:
Fine Hall 314
November 6, 2017
4:00pm - 5:00pm
##### Symmetry methods for quantum variational principles and expectation value dynamics
###### PACM/Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Inspired by previous works by Kramer & Saraceno and Shi & Rabitz, this talk exploits symmetry methods for the variational formulation of different problems in physics and chemistry. First, I will use symmetry methods to provide new variational principles for the description of mixed quantum states, in various pictures including Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Dirac (interaction) and Wigner-Moyal. Then, after discussing Ehrenfest's mean-field model, I will modify its symmetry properties to provide a new variational principle for expectation value dynamics in general situations.

Speaker: Cesare Tronci, University of Surrey, Guilford, UK
Location:
Fine Hall 214
November 7, 2017
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Dominating varieties by liftable ones.
###### Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Given a smooth projective variety over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic, can we dominate it by another smooth projective variety that lifts to characteristic 0? We give a negative answer to this question.

Speaker: Remy van Dobben de Bruyn, Columbia University
Location:
Fine Hall 314
November 7, 2017
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Hydrodynamics of integrable classical and quantum systems
###### Mathematical Physics Seminar

Discussed is the Euler-type hydrodynamics for one-dimensional integrable quantum systems, as the Lieb-Liniger delta Bose gas and the XXZ chain. Of particular interest are domain wall initial states. We will use classical hard rods as an illustration of the underlying structure.

Speaker: Herbert Spohn , Technical University Munich and Columbia University
Location:
November 8, 2017
2:30pm - 3:30pm
##### Provably good convex methods for mapping problems
###### PACM IDeAS

Computing mappings or correspondences between surfaces is an important tool for many applications in computer graphics, computer vision, medical imaging, morphology and related fields. Mappings of least angle distortion (conformal) and distance distortion (isometric) are of particular interest. The problem of finding conformal/isometric mappings between surfaces is typically formulated as a difficult non-convex optimization problem. Convex methods relax the non-convex optimization problem to a convex problem which can then be solved globally.

Location:
Fine Hall 224
November 9, 2017
12:30pm - 1:30pm
##### TBA-Congling Qiu
Speaker: Congling Qiu, Princeton University
Location:
Fine Hall 110
November 9, 2017
1:30pm - 3:00pm
##### Hadamard well-posedness of the gravity water waves equations
###### Ergodic Theory & Statistical Mechanics

The gravity water waves equations consist of the incompressible Euler equations and an evolution equation for the free boundary of the fluid domain. Assuming the flow is irrotational, Alazard-Burq-Zuily (Invent. Math, 2014) proved that for any initial data in Sobolev space $H^s$, the problem has a unique solution lying in the same space, here s is the smallest index required to ensure that the fluid velocity is spatially Lipschitz. We will discuss the strategy of a proof of the fact that the flow map is continuous in the strong topology of H^s.

Speaker: Huy Quang Nguyen, Princeton University
Location:
Fine Hall 1001
November 9, 2017
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### TBA-Nancy Hingston
###### Algebraic Topology Seminar
Speaker: Nancy Hingston, TCNJ
Location:
Fine Hall 110
November 9, 2017
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### TBA-Jingjun Han
###### Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Speaker: Jingjun Han Institution, Peking University
Location:
Fine Hall 322
November 9, 2017
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Peculiar modules for 4-ended tangles
###### Topology Seminar

A peculiar module is a certain algebraic invariant of 4-ended tangles that I developed in my PhD thesis as a tool for studying the local behaviour of Heegaard Floer homology for knots and links. I will briefly explain its construction and describe its classification in terms of immersed curves on a 4-punctured sphere as well as a glueing formula. Finally, I will discuss some applications, such as rational tangle detection, skein relations and mutation symmetries.

Speaker: Claudius Zibrowius, Sherbrooke University
Location:
Fine Hall 314
November 13, 2017
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### TAB-Massimiliano Berti
###### Analysis Seminar
Speaker: Massimiliano Berti, SISSA
Location:
Fine Hall 314
November 13, 2017
4:00pm - 5:00pm
##### Recent developments in dimensional free estimates in harmonic analysis
###### Analysis Seminar

We will discuss some recent developments in dimensional-free bounds for the Hardy--Littlewood averaging operators defined over convex symmetric bodies in $\mathbb R^d$. Specifically we will

Speaker: Mariusz Mirek, IAS, Wrocław
Location:
Fine Hall 314
November 13, 2017
4:00pm - 5:00pm
##### TBA-Li-Sheng Tseng
###### Joint PU/IAS Symplectic Geometry Seminar
Speaker: Li-Sheng Tseng, University of California at Irvine
Location:
Fine Hall 224
November 13, 2017
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Lecture 1: The games of Steiner and Poncelet and algebraic group schemes
###### Minerva Lectures, Special Events and Conferences

We shall briefly present in very elementary terms the games' of Steiner and Poncelet, amusing mathematical solitaires of the XIX Century, also related to elliptic billiards. We shall recall that the finiteness of the game is related to torsion in tori or elliptic curves.

Speaker: Umberto Zannier, Scuola Normale Superiore-Pisa
Location:
McDonnell Hall A02
November 14, 2017
5:00pm - 6:00pm
##### Lecture 2: Torsion values for sections in abelian schemes and the Betti map
###### Minerva Lectures, Special Events and Conferences

We shall consider variations in the games, related to the so-called Betti-map', which we shall describe. We shall also illustrate some links of the Betti map with several other contexts and state some theorems on torsion values, both of existence type and finiteness type (obtained mainly in joint work with David Masser).

Speaker: Umberto Zannier, Scuola Normale Superiore-Pisa
Location:
McDonnell Hall A02
November 15, 2017
2:30pm - 3:30pm
##### TBA - Gal Mishne
###### PACM IDeAS
Speaker: Gal Mishne, Yale University
Location:
Fine Hall 224
November 15, 2017
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### TBA-Jeremy Quastel
###### Probability Seminar
Speaker: Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto
Location:
Fine Hall 214
November 16, 2017
2:39pm - 2:39pm