Dynamical foliations for system isotopic to Anosov diffeomophisms

Speaker: 

Todd Fisher

Institution: 

Brigham Young University

Time: 

Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 440R

We discuss the existence of foliations that are invariant under the dynamics for systems that are isotopic to Anosov diffeomorphisms. Specifically, we examine partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms with one dimensional center that are isotopic to a hyperbolic toral automorphism and contained in a connected component. We show in this case there is a center foliation. We will also discuss more general cases where there is a weak form of hyperbolicity called a dominated splitting. This is joint work with Jerome Buzzi, Rafael Potrie, and Martin Sambarino.

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Local newforms for SO(2n+1)

Speaker: 

Pei-Yu Tsai

Institution: 

Caltech

Time: 

Friday, May 16, 2014 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 340P

When a holomorphic modular form is a newform, its L-function has nice analytic properties and associates a cuspidal automorphic representation, which is a restricted product of local representations. To recover the newform from the representation, Casselman considered the fixed line of the congruence subgroups of GL(2) at the conductor level on the local representations. A vector on this line shall encode the conductor, the L-function and the \epsilon-factor of the representation. This is called the theory of newforms for GL(2). Similar theory has been established for some groups of small ranks as well as GL(n). In this talk I will introduce one for SO(2n+1).

Stochastic gradient pursuit methods and the Kaczmarz Method

Speaker: 

Deanna Needell

Institution: 

Claremont McKenna College

Time: 

Monday, June 2, 2014 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH306

In this blackboard talk we will give a brief overview of stochastic gradient pursuit and the closely related Kaczmarz method for solving linear systems, or more generally convex optimization problems. We will present some new results which tie these methods together and prove the best known convergence rates for these methods under mild Lipschitz conditions. The methods empirically and theoretically rely on probability distributions to dictate the order of sampling in the algorithms. It turns out that the choice of distribution may drastically change the performance of the algorithm, and the theory has only begun to explain this phenomenon.

Self-genericity axioms V

Speaker: 

Andres Forero

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Monday, April 28, 2014 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Host: 

We continue the exposition on self-genericity axioms for ideals on P(Z) (Club Catch, Projective Catch and Stationary Catch). We have established some relations with forcing axioms and with the existence of certain regular forcing embeddings and projections, and also point out connections with Precipitousness. We give an rough overview of the method used for proving the existence of models with Woodin cardinals coming from these axioms, using the Core Model Theory. In this talk we explain the mechanism of absorbing extenders in the core model.

Periodic homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi equations with defects: cell problems in the non-convex setting.

Speaker: 

Hung Tran

Institution: 

University of Chicago

Time: 

Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 2:00am to 3:00am

Host: 

Location: 

440R

 

We study the effect of defects in the periodic homogenization of
Hamilton-Jacobi equations with non convex Hamiltonians. More precisely, we
handle the question about existence of sublinear solutions of the cell
problems.

Flat bundles, harmonic metrics and singular affine structures

Speaker: 

Adam Jacob

Institution: 

Harvard University

Time: 

Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 4:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

There is a natural correspondence between holomorphic
bundles over complex manifolds and flat bundles over affine
manifolds. More specifically, an elliptic K3 surface can be viewed as
a torus fibration over P^1, and away from the singular fibers a torus
invariant holomorphic bundle reduces to a flat bundle over punctured
P^1. In this talk I will describe and solve the reduction of the
Hermitian-Yang-Mills equations to a flat bundle on this Riemann
surface, and discuss its relation to twisted harmonic metrics and
mirror symmetry. This is joint work with T.C. Collins and S.-T. Yau.

Towards a definition of Shimura curves in positive characteristics

Speaker: 

Jie Xia

Institution: 

Columbia University

Time: 

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 340P

Shimura varieties are defined over complex numbers and generally have number fields as the field of definition. Motivated by an example constructed by Mumford, we find conditions which guarantee a curve in char. p lifts to a Shimura curve of Hodge type. The conditions are intrinsic in positive characteristics and thus they shed light on a definition of Shimura curves in positive characteristics. 
In this talk, I will start with modular curves, and discuss the moduli interpretation of Shimura curves. Then I will present such a condition in terms of isocrystals. Time permitting, I would show a deformation result on Barsotti-Tate groups, which serves as a key step in the proof. 

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