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Monday, 9 December
Time Speaker Title Location
15:15 - 16:15 Matthias Meiwes
Tel Aviv University
Abstract
An important quantity for the orbit complexity of a dynamical system is its topological entropy. Recently, several fruitful approaches were found to express topological entropy of Hamiltonian or Reeb dynamics in terms of Floer theory or contact homology. For a 3D Reeb flow and a link of periodic orbits, Alves and Pirnapasov introduced the notion of the homotopical growth rate in the link complement, defined by counting certain "essential" homotopy classes of periodic orbits in the complement of that link. In my talk, I will explain how topological entropy of a Reeb flow can be recovered through homotopical growth rates in complements of links of periodic orbits, given some mild assumptions on the flow. I will moreover explain some applications of this result and discuss stability features of the topological entropy of Reeb flows. Partly based on joint work with M. Alves, L. Dahinden, and A. Pirnapasov.
Symplectic Geometry Seminar
Entropy and links in 3D Reeb flows
HG G 43
Tuesday, 10 December
Time Speaker Title Location
15:15 - 16:15 Gerard Orriols Gimenez
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract
I will introduce the problem of minimizing area among Lagrangian submanifolds in a Riemannian symplectic manifold, and the related problem for Legendrian submanifolds in a contact manifold. This constrained variational problem was introduced by Schoen and Wolfson with the aim of constructing Lagrangian minimal surfaces and Special Lagrangians. I will explain the connection between the Lagrangian and Legendrian problem, what is known in two dimensions, what goes wrong in higher dimension and some new progress in this direction.
Analysis Seminar
Area minimization among Lagrangian and Legendrian submanifolds
HG G 43
16:30 - 17:30 Lycka Drakengren
ETH
Abstract
Zurich Graduate Colloquium
What is... the torelli map?
KO2 F 150
Wednesday, 11 December
Time Speaker Title Location
13:30 - 14:30 Dr. Meg Doucette
University of Maryland
Abstract
I will discuss the existence and construction of smooth models for certain fibered partially hyperbolic systems. Fibered partially hyperbolic systems are partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms that have an integrable center bundle, tangent to a continuous invariant fibration by invariant submanifolds. I will explain how under certain restrictions on the fiber, any fibered partially hyperbolic system over a nilmanifold is leaf conjugate to a smooth model that descends to a hyperbolic nilmanifold automorphism on the base. I will then discuss how the restrictions on the fiber can be replaced by certain dynamical restrictions on the behavior of the fibered system in the center direction. This is part of a joint work in progress with Jon Dewitt and Oliver Wang.
Ergodic theory and dynamical systems seminar
Smooth Models for Fibered Partially Hyperbolic Systems
Y27 H 28
13:30 - 15:00 Dr. Pim Spelier
Utrecht University
Abstract
There are many compactifications of the moduli space of abelian varieties. In a series of papers by Kajiwara, Kato and Nakayama, they construct a particularly nice modular compactification, consisting of log abelian varieties, certain proper group objects in the category of log spaces. In this talk, I will recall the definitions of a tropical abelian variety and a log abelian variety, and give an overview of the moduli space of log abelian varieties (with level structure). I will also explain how it compares to the toroidal compactifications, such as the second Voronoi compactification. I will also discuss how classical constructions like duality and the Poincare bundle generalise to the logarithmic setting.
Algebraic Geometry and Moduli Seminar
The moduli space of log abelian varieties
HG G 43
15:30 - 16:30 Mikolaj Fraczyk
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Abstract
In my talk I will explain how to use probabilistic methods to show that the number of generators of a higher rank lattice is sublinear in the covolume. We will look at the properties of Voronoi tessellations of symmetric spaces with seeds at a very sparse Poisson point process. In higher rank, one can use dynamics to prove that the Voronoi cells have very elongated walls. This phenomenon is missing in the rank one cases and is the key ingredient for the upper bound on the number of generators. Based on a joint work with Sam Mellick and Amanda Wilkens.
Geometry Seminar
On the number of generators of higher rank lattices
HG G 43
16:30 - 17:30 Dr. Federico Pichi
SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Abstract
The development of efficient reduced order models (ROMs) from a deep learning perspective enables users to overcome the limitations of traditional approaches [1, 2]. One drawback of the techniques based on convolutional autoencoders is the lack of geometrical information when dealing with complex domains defined on unstructured meshes. The present work proposes a framework for nonlinear model order reduction based on Graph Convolutional Autoencoders (GCA) to exploit emergent patterns in different physical problems, including those showing bifurcating behavior, high-dimensional parameter space, slow Kolmogorov-decay, and varying domains [3]. Our methodology extracts the latent space’s evolution while introducing geometric priors, possibly alleviating the learning process through up- and down-sampling operations. Among the advantages, we highlight the high generalizability in the low-data regime and the great speedup. Moreover, we will present a novel graph feedforward network (GFN), extending the GCA approach to exploit multifidelity data, leveraging graph-adaptive weights, enabling large savings, and providing computable error bounds for the predictions [4]. This way, we overcome the limitations of the up- and down-sampling procedures by building a resolution-invariant GFN-ROM strategy capable of training and testing on different mesh sizes, resulting in a more lightweight and flexible architecture. References [1] Lee, K. and Carlberg, K.T. (2020) ‘Model reduction of dynamical systems on nonlinear manifolds using deep convolutional autoencoders’, Journal of Computational Physics, 404, p. 108973. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2019.108973. [2] Fresca, S., Dede’, L. and Manzoni, A. (2021) ‘A Comprehensive Deep Learning-Based Approach to Reduced Order Modeling of Nonlinear Time-Dependent Parametrized PDEs’, Journal of Scientific Computing, 87(2), p. 61. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-021-01462-7. [3] Pichi, F., Moya, B. and Hesthaven, J.S. (2024) ‘A graph convolutional autoencoder approach to model order reduction for parametrized PDEs’, Journal of Computational Physics, 501, p. 112762. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2024.112762. [4] Morrison, O.M., Pichi, F. and Hesthaven, J.S. (2024) ‘GFN: A graph feedforward network for resolution-invariant reduced operator learning in multifidelity applications’, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 432, p. 117458. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2024.117458.
Zurich Colloquium in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Graph-based machine learning approaches for model order reduction
HG G 19.2
17:15 - 18:45 Zheng Fang
Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Abstract
Seminar on Stochastic Processes
Graduate Workshop Reinforcement
Y27 H26
Thursday, 12 December
Time Speaker Title Location
16:15 - 17:15 Beibei Liu
Ohio State University
Abstract
Every closed, oriented 3-manifold is obtained by a Dehn surgery on a link in the three-sphere. It is natural to ask about the minimal number of components of a link that admits a Dehn surgery to a given 3-manifold. In this talk, we use Furuta's 10/8-theorem to provide new examples of 3-manifolds with the same integral homology as the lens space L(2k, 1), while not surgery on any knot in the three-sphere.
[K-OS] Knot Online Seminar
Bounding the Dehn surgery number by 10/8
online
17:15 - 18:15 Sarah Zerbes
ETH Zürich
Abstract
Kolloquium über Mathematik, Informatik und Unterricht
Kongruente Zahlen: von Pythagoras zu Fermat
HG G 19.2
Friday, 13 December
Time Speaker Title Location
14:15 - 15:15 Dr. Xie Jianfeng
ETH Zurich
Abstract
Let K be a global field and p be a prime number with p\neq char K. A classical theorem in algebraic number theory asserts that when L varies in Z/pZ-extensions of K, the p-rank of the class group of L is unbounded. It is expected that similar unboundenss results also hold for other arithmetic objects. For example, K. Česnavičius proved that for fixed abelian variety A over K, the p-Selmer group of A over L is unbounded when L varies in Z/pZ-extensions of K. And he raised a further problem: in the same setting, does the Tate-Shafarevich group of A also grow unboundedly? Using a machinery developed by B. Mazur and K. Rubin, we give a positive answer to this problem. This is a joint work with Yi Ouyang.
Number Theory Seminar
The growth of Tate-Shafarevich groups in cyclic extensions
HG G 43
16:00 - 17:30 Dr. Pim Spelier
Utrecht University
Abstract
The gluing maps on the moduli space of curves are integral to much of the enumerative geometry of curves. For example, Gromov-Witten invariants satisfy recursive relations with respect to the gluing maps. For log GW invariants, counting maps with tangency conditions, this fails, as gluing maps do not respect the logarithmic structure hence the pullback is not well-defined. I will describe a certain logarithmic enhancement of Mgn that does admit gluing maps. For the logarithmic double ramification cycle, a certain curve count controlling the log Gromov-Witten invariants of toric varieties, a formula for the pullback along the separating gluing map was known. I will present a formula for pulling back the log DR cycle along the non-separating gluing map in terms of smaller log DR cycles and piecewise polynomials, and explain how this gives a formula for the classical pullback of the classical double ramification cycle. I will sketch how this story extends to logarithmic Gromov-Witten invariants.
Algebraic Geometry and Moduli Seminar
Gluing logarithmic curves: the logarithmic double ramification cycle and logarithmic Gromov-Witten invariants
HG G 43
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