Department Colloquiums & Events
Integral equations with nonlocal operators: applications and recent development
May 14, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Skye Hall 284
Integral equations with nonlocal operators: applications and recent development
Qiang Du, Columbia University
Recent applications and theoretical developments of models of integral equations using nonlocal operators have shown promise as effective alternatives to local models, especially in the presence of singularities and…
Computing high dimensional Wasserstein geometric flows in neural network parameter space
May 07, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Skye Hall 284
Computing high dimensional Wasserstein geometric flows in neural network parameter space
Haomin Zhou, Georgia Tech
Machine learning based strategies have impacted computational mathematics significantly in recent years. Many used-to-be intractable tasks such as solving high dimensional PDEs or computing solution operators for…
Affine geometry and the Auslander Conjecture
April 23, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Skye 284
Jeff Danciger, University of Texas at Austin
The Auslander Conjecture is an analogue of Bieberbach’s theory of Euclidean crystallographic groups in the setting of affine geometry. It predicts that a complete affine manifold (a manifold equipped with a complete torsion-free flat affine connection) which is compact must have…
The Distinguished Burton Jones Lecture - Dr. Renato Bettiol
March 14, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Skye 284
Dr. Renato Bettiol, Lehman College
Minimal surfaces in elongated ellipsoids
Imagine stretching an n-dimensional ellipsoid inside Euclidean space so that one of its semiaxes becomes very large. This causes a corresponding stretching of geometric objects that locally minimize length (geodesics) or area (minimal surfaces) inside…
An invitation to Anosov representations
March 12, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Skye 284
Dick Canary, University of Michigan
Abstract: Fuchsian groups arise naturally as groups of covering transformations of hyperbolic surfaces. One may view them as images of discrete faithful representation of free groups and surface groups into
PSL(2,R). The study of hyperbolic surfaces and deformation spaces of Fuchsian groups is…
Heat kernel bounds for singular drifts, desingularizing weights, Nash's and Carleman's methods
March 05, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Skye 284
Damir Kinzebulatov, Université Laval, Canada
I will discuss various realizations of Nash's method that allows us to study heat kernels of local and non-local Kolmogorov equations with singular drifts. The latter includes some drifts arising in particle systems with strong attracting interactions of Keller-Segel type.…
The base affine space and functoriality in the Langlands program
January 27, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Skye 284
Tom Gannon, UCLA
A time tested strategy used to answer questions about the representation theory of a Lie group is to translate them to questions on the geometry of its quotients. After giving a survey of representation theory aimed at a broad audience, I will describe the theorems I have obtained using this strategy, including…
From Combinatorics to Knot Theory (and Back Again)
January 22, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Skye 284
Nicolle Gonzalez, UC Berkeley
Catalan numbers are among the most ubiquitous objects in mathematics, arising naturally in combinatorics, representation theory, geometry, and many other areas. Although there are various polynomial generalizations of these numbers, particularly fruitful are the so-called (q,t)-Catalan polynomials.…