Weekly Bulletin
The FIM provides a Newsletter called FIM Weekly Bulletin, which is a selection of the mathematics seminars and lectures taking place at ETH Zurich and at the University of Zurich. It is sent by e-mail every Tuesday during the semester, or can be accessed here on this website at any time.
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Monday, 18 July | |||
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Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
09:00 - 10:00 |
Nader Masmoudi New York University |
HG G 3 |
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10:30 - 11:30 |
Juhi Jang University of Southern California |
Abstract
Gravitational collapse of gaseous stars |
HG G 3 |
11:30 - 12:30 |
Pierre Degond Imperial College London |
Abstract
Geometry and topology in collective dynamics models |
HG G 3 |
14:00 - 15:00 |
Michele Coti Zelati Imperial College London |
Abstract
Orientation mixing in active suspensions |
HG G 3 |
15:30 - 16:30 |
François Golse Ecole Polytechnique |
Abstract
Local Regularity for the Landau Equation (with Coulomb Interaction Potential) |
HG G 3 |
Tuesday, 19 July | |||
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Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
09:00 - 10:00 |
Jacob Bedrossian University of Maryland |
Abstract
Landau damping and related effects in kinetic models of plasma physics |
HG G 3 |
10:00 - 11:00 |
Thierry Goudon Université Côte d'Azur |
Abstract
Where does friction or dissipation come from? |
HG G 3 |
11:15 - 12:15 |
Andreas Buja Flatiron Institute |
Abstract
Autism, now called "Autism Spectrum Disorder" (ASD), is a neuro-developmental condition that is diagnosed in early childhood.It is heavily gender-biased as it affects by today's criteria about 1% of boys and 1/4% of girls. It also has a strong genetic basis as evidenced by studies of identical twins. Unfortunately, what we have learned today is discouraging: The number of genes causally related to ASD is in the hundreds, of which about 150 have been identified, each accounting for only a tiny fraction of ASD variability. While the search for causally linked genes is ongoing, we also have to ask more global questions: How can we think about the relative protection from ASD enjoyed by females? How can the gender bias be reconciled with known inheritance mechanisms? To answer such questions, Wigler et al. (2007) proposed a "Unified Theory" according to which females are the stores of damaging genetic variants for which they have relative protection, but cause ASD in their sons who lack this protection. To capture Wigler et al.'s theory and combine it with today's knowledge of the "polygenic" nature of ASD, we developed a scatter shot model of "damaging alleles" which have "lower penetrance" in females than males. In this model we are able to match the known "prevalences" of 1% in boys and 1/4% in girls, as well as other known global features such as the existence of high risk families. Most importantly, we are able to prove mathematically a prediction of Wigler et al.s' theory: genetic sharing among autistic male siblings is greater with the mother than the father. Surprisingly, the latest empirical evidence from Wigler's lab seems to indicate that genetic sharing among autistic male siblings is greater with the father than the mother. If this evidence can be firmed up, it refutes the Unified Theory and requires new ideas. One such idea involves the existence of "protecting alleles", which we are currently incorporating in our model.
Research Seminar in StatisticsGenetic Modeling of Autismread_more |
HG G 19.1 |
14:00 - 15:00 |
José A. Carrillo University of Oxford |
Abstract
The Landau Equation as a Gradient Flow |
HG G 3 |
15:30 - 16:30 |
Nataša Pavlović The University of Texas at Austin |
Abstract
Two tales of a rigorous Derivation of the Hamiltonian Structure |
HG G 3 |
Wednesday, 20 July | |||
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Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
09:00 - 10:00 |
Clément Mouhot University of Cambridge |
Abstract
Quantitative Geometric Control in Kinetic Theory |
HG G 3 |
10:30 - 11:30 |
Benoît Pausader Brown University |
Abstract
Stability of a point charge for the repulsive Vlasov-Poisson system |
HG G 3 |
11:30 - 12:30 |
Laurent Desvillettes Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu |
Abstract
Coupling kinetic equations and fluid mechanics equations: recent results on sprays |
HG G 3 |
Thursday, 21 July | |||
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Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
09:00 - 10:00 |
Peter Constantin Princeton University |
Abstract
On the Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system |
HG G 3 |
10:30 - 11:30 |
Claude Bardos Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7) |
Abstract
About the quasilinear approximation for Vlasov equation and related equations |
HG G 3 |
11:30 - 12:30 |
Irene Gamba The University of Texas at Austin |
Abstract
Weak turbulence models for electron plasma flows by quasilinear particle systems |
HG G 3 |
14:00 - 15:00 |
Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin Penn State University |
Abstract
A new approach to the mean-field limit of Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck |
HG G 3 |
Friday, 22 July | |||
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Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
09:00 - 10:00 |
Sijue Wu University of Michigan |
Abstract
The quartic integrability and long time existence of steep water waves in 2d |
HG G 3 |
10:30 - 11:30 |
Toan Nguyen Penn State University |
HG G 3 |
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11:30 - 12:30 |
Yann Brenier Université Paris-Saclay |
Abstract
When Einstein's equations meet Kinetic Theory and Fluid Mechanics |
HG G 3 |