Counting points on reductions of CM abelian surfaces

Speaker: 

Nick Alexander

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

We construct explicit genus 2 hyperelliptic curves whose Jacobian varieties have complex multiplication and are defined over an explicit algebraic number field. For these Jacobians, we give a formula for the number of points on their reductions modulo primes of good reduction. The construction and results can be viewed as a dimension 2 generalization of results of H. Stark. These formulas have application to cryptography and the CM method in dimension 2.

Riemannian Geometry of Metric Cantor Sets

Speaker: 

Professor Jean Bellissard

Institution: 

Georgia Institute of Technology

Time: 

Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

Ultrametric Cantor sets are classified by their Michon's graph,
which is a rooted weighted tree. Using the notion of Spectral Triple proposed in the eighties by A. Connes to describe the noncommutative analogs of Riemannian manifolds, such a space can be seen as a manifold with dimension given by the upper box dimension, the analog of a volume form and also a diffusion process generated by an analog of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. Potential applications will be discussed.

The Ghirlanda-Guerra identities and ultrametricity in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model.

Speaker: 

Professor Dmitry Panchenko

Institution: 

Texas A&M

Time: 

Monday, May 10, 2010 - 11:00am

Location: 

RH 306

The Parisi theory of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model completely describes the geometry of the Gibbs sample in a sense that it predicts the limiting joint distribution of all scalar products, or overlaps, between i.i.d. replicas. One of the main predictions is that asymptotically the Gibbs measure concentrates on an ultrametric subset of all spin configurations. Another part of the theory are the Ghirlanda-Guerra identities which in various formulations have been proved rigorously. It is well known that together these two properties completely determine the joint distribution of the overlaps and for this reason they were always considered complementary. We show that in the case when overlaps take finitely many values the Ghirlanda-Guerra identities actually imply ultrametricity.

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