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Professor Graeme Milton will be visiting the Department of Mathematics from May 7th through May 11th as part of the Department's Distinguished Lecture Series. He will be giving two talks.
We discuss d+1 dimensional percolation models with d dimensional
quasiperiodic disorder. A multiscale scheme is introduced which is suited
to the spatial structure of quasiperiodic disorder. In this case we will
show almost sure stretched exponential decay of correlations as compared
to faster than polynomial decay of correlations obtained for similar
models with random disorder. We mention in this case a disorder-rated
transition of phase structure.
Our main question is the p-adic meromorphic continuation of
the L-function attached to a p-adic character for the rational
function field over a finite field of characteristic p. In this talk,
I will explain a new and (hopefully) transparent approach to this
problem. (This is ongoing joint work with Chris Davis).
In February 2012, 6 teams of 3 students from UCI participated in the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM). The results just came out and all the teams earned certificates, with two teams earning special designations.
Austin Fringer (Math+ICS major), Wes Fuhrman (Physics major) and Arturo Vargas (Math major) earned a Meritorious award. This means they were in the top 9% of the 3697 teams in the competition. Only one US team scored higher.
How is it possible that the 400 squaremeter wings can carry 400 tons at a
wingload of 1 ton per squaremeter in sustained flight in the air? Are you
satisfied with some of the explanations offered in popular science, like
higher velocity and lower pressure on the upper surface of the wing
because it is curved and air there has a longer path to travel than below?
In this talk, we will derive the equations of motion for fluids and
introduce the Euler and the Navier-Stokes equations for fluids. We will
We show how to efficiently count exactly the number of solutions of a system of n polynomials in n variables over certain local fields L, for a new class of polynomials systems. The fields we handle include the reals and the p-adic rationals. The polynomial systems amenable to our methods are made up of certain A-discriminant chambers, and our algorithms are the first to attain polynomial-time in this setting. We also discuss connections to Baker's refinement of the abc-Conjecture, Smale's 17th Problem, and tropical geometry. The results presented are, in various combinations, joint with Martin Avendano, Philippe Pebay, Korben Rusek, and David C. Thompson.