On mu-invariants and congruences with Eisenstein series

Speaker: 

Rob Pollack

Institution: 

Boston University

Time: 

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

RH 340P

For any irregular prime p, one has a Hida family of cuspidal eigenforms of level 1 whose residual Galois representations are all reducible. This family has already played a starring role in Wiles’ proof of Iwasawa’s main conjecture for totally real fields. In this talk, we instead focus on the Iwasawa theory of these modular forms in their own right. We will discuss new phenomena that occur in this residually reducible case including the fact that analytic mu-invariants are unbounded in this family and directly related to the p-adic zeta-function. This is a joint work with Joel Bellaiche.

Geometry of Lagrangian submanifolds related to isoparametric hypersurfaces

Speaker: 

Yoshihiro Ohnita

Institution: 

Dept of Math, Osaka City University, Japan

Time: 

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 306

In this talk I shall provide a survey of my recent works and their environs on differential geometry of Lagrangian submanifolds in specific K\"ahler manifolds, such as complex projective spaces, complex space forms, Hermitian symmetric spaces and so on. I shall emphasis on the relationship between certain minimal Lagrangian submanifold in complex hyperquadrics and isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres. This talk is mainly based on my joint work with Associate Professor Hui Ma (Tsinghua University, Beijing).

Polar actions on symmetric spaces

Speaker: 

Jurgen Berndt

Institution: 

Dept of Math, King's College London

Time: 

Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

An isometric action of a connected Lie group on a Riemannian manifold is called polar if there exists a connected closed submanifold that meets each orbit of the action and intersects it orthogonally. Dadok established in 1985 a remarkable, and mysterious, relation between polar actions on Euclidean spaces and Riemannian symmetric spaces. Soon afterwards an attempt was made to classify polar actions on symmetric spaces. For irreducible symmetric spaces of compact type the final step of the classification has just been achieved by Kollross and Lytchak. In the talk I want to focus on symmetric spaces of noncompact type. For actions of reductive groups one can use the concept of duality between symmetric spaces of compact type and of noncompact type. However, new examples and phenomena arise from the geometry induced by actions of parabolic subgroups, for which there is no analogon in the compact case. I plan to discuss the main difficulties one encounters here and some partial solutions.

Diffuse Decompositions of Polynomials

Speaker: 

Daniel Kane

Institution: 

Stanford University

Time: 

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

DBH 6011

We study some problems relating to polynomials evaluated either at random Gaussian or random Bernoulli inputs.  We present a structure theorem for degree-d polynomials with Gaussian inputs. In particular, if p is a given degree-d polynomial, then p can be written in terms of some bounded number of other polynomials q_1,...,q_m so that the joint probability density function of q_1(G),...,q_m(G) is close to being bounded.  This says essentially that any abnormalities in the distribution of p(G) can be explained by the way in which p decomposes into the q_i.  We then present some applications of this result.

Eigenfunctions on billiard tables, III

Speaker: 

Hamid Hezari

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

rh340P

 

Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a bounded domain represent the modes of vibration of a vibrating drum. The behavior of these eigenfunctions is closely related to the behavior of the underlying dynamical system of the billiard table. In this talk I first give a brief exposition on this relation and then I talk about the boundary traces of eigenfunctions and a recent joint work with Han, Hassell and Zelditch.

 

Function spaces of exponential growth on a half-plane, zero-sets and applications

Speaker: 

Marco Peloso

Institution: 

University of Arkansas

Time: 

Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 340N

We introduce a new class of spaces of mixed Hardy-Bergman type on 

a half-plane.  We study some functional properties of these spaces, and their

zero-sets.  We apply these results to the Muntz-Szasz problem for the Bergman

space.  (This is joint work, in progress, with M. Salvatori.

Big frequency cascades in the nonlinear Schrödinger evolution

Speaker: 

James Colliander

Institution: 

University of Toronto

Time: 

Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 340P

 I will outline a construction of an exotic solution of the nonlinear
Schrödinger equation that exhibits a big frequency cascade. Recent advances
related to this construction and some open questions will be surveyed.

Eigenfunctions on billiard tables, II

Speaker: 

Hamid Hezari

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 340P

Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on a bounded domain represent the modes of vibration of a vibrating drum. The behavior of these eigenfunctions is closely related to the behavior of the underlying dynamical system of the billiard table. In this talk I first give a brief exposition on this relation and then I talk about the boundary traces of eigenfunctions and a recent joint work with Han, Hassell and Zelditch.

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