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regular seminar Ana Caraiani (Imperial College London)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: K0.18, King's Building abstract: | There are two different ways to construct families of ordinary p-adic Siegel modular forms. One is by p-adically interpolating classes in Betti cohomology, first introduced by Hida and then given a more representation-theoretic interpretation by Emerton. The other is by p-adically interpolating classes in coherent cohomology, once again pioneered by Hida and generalised in recent years by Boxer and Pilloni. I will explain these two constructions and then discuss joint work in progress with James Newton and Juan Esteban RodrÃguez Camargo that aims to compare them. Keywords: |
Exceptional Seminar Ignacio S. Landea (IFLP)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL Strand room: K0.50 abstract: | We use a relative entropy in order to establish the irreversibility of renormalization group flows on planar d-dimensional defects, embedded in D-dimensional conformal field theories. This proof completes and unifies all known defect irreversibility theorems for defect dimensions d≤ 4. The F-theorem on defects (d= 3) is a new result using information-theoretic methods. Keywords: |
regular seminar Owen Patashnick (KCL)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: K2.31 abstract: | Keywords: |
regular seminar Vandita Patel (University of Manchester)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: K0.18, King's Building abstract: | The infamous Ramanujan tau-function is the starting point for many mysterious conjectures and difficult open problems within the realm of modular forms. In this talk, I will discuss some of our recent results pertaining to odd values of the Ramanujan tau-function. We use a combination of tools which include the Primitive Divisor Theorem of Bilu, Hanrot and Voutier, bounds for solutions to Thue–Mahler equations due to Bugeaud and Gyory, and the modular approach via Galois representations of Frey-Hellegouarch elliptic curves. This is joint work with Mike Bennett (UBC), Adela Gherga (Warwick) and Samir Siksek (Warwick). Keywords: |
colloquium Mehdi Yazdi (KCL)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: K6.29 (Anatomy lecture theatre) abstract: | One of the oldest problems in low-dimensional topology is the unknot recognition problem, posed by Max Dehn in 1910: Is there an algorithm to decide if a given knot can be untangled? You know that this is a challenging problem if you owned a pair of earphones that are tangled! The unknot recognition problem was highlighted by Alan Turing in his last article in 1954, and the first solution was given by Wolfgang Haken in 1961. However, it remains widely open whether there exists a polynomial time algorithm to detect the unknot. The current state-of-the-art is Lackenby’s announcement for a quasi-polynomial time algorithm, which puts it in similar standing to the graph isomorphism problem. I will discuss what is known about the unknot recognition, how it is related to the theory of foliations on three-dimensional manifolds, as well as recent developments on related algorithmic problems. Keywords: |
regular seminar Donnell Obovu (UCL)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: S5.20 abstract: | We consider, for $h,E>0$, the semiclassical Schrödinger operator $-h^2\Delta + V - E$ in dimension two and higher. The potential $V$, and its radial derivative $\partial_{r}V$ are bounded away from the origin, have long-range decay and $V$ is bounded by $r^{-\delta}$ near the origin while $\partial_{r}V$ is bounded by $r^{-1-\delta}$, where $0\leq\delta < 4(\sqrt{2}-1)$. In this setting, we show that the resolvent bound is exponential in $h^{-1}$, while the exterior resolvent bound is linear in $h^{-1}$. Keywords: |
regular seminar Sylvy Anscombe (Université Paris Cité)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: K0.18 abstract: | A good deal of the arithmetic of a field can be expressed by sentences in the first-order language of rings. The theories
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regular seminar Yicheng Yang (KCL)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: K0.18 abstract: | This is part of the London number theory study group on uniform Mordell. This talk will give an introduction to theory of abelian varieties and their moduli, especially over the complex numbers. The notion of mixed Shimura varieties may be touched on. The notion of Kawamata or Ueno locus may also be touched on.
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regular seminar Filippo Baroni (University of Oxford)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: S4.29 abstract: | The Nielsen-Thurston classification theorem states that there are three kinds of surface homeomorphisms up to homotopy: periodic, reducible, and pseudo-Anosov.
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at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: MB4.2 abstract: | see
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regular seminar Ghazaleh Asghari Khonakdari (Reading)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: S5.20 abstract: | Using the notion of integral distance to analytic functions, we give a characterization of Schatten class Hankel operators acting on doubling Fock spaces on the complex plane and use it to show that for $f\in L^{\infty}$ if $H_{f}$ is Hilbert-Schmidt, then so is $H_{\bar{f}}$. This property is known as the Berger-Coburn phenomenon. When $0 < p \le 1$, we show that the Berger-Coburn phenomenon fails for a large class of doubling Fock spaces. Along the way, we illustrate our results for the canonical weights $|z|^{m}$ when $m > 0$. Keywords: |
regular seminar Jean-Baptiste Teyssier (Universite Sorbonne)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: K0.18 abstract: | Cohomology is the most fundamental global invariant attached to a sheaf. For an l-adic local system L on the complement of a divisor D in a smooth projective variety over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p not equal to l, we will advertise the existence of estimates for the rank of each cohomology spaces of L depending only on local data : the rank of L and the ramification conductors of L at the generic points of D. This is joint work with Haoyu Hu. Keywords:Note: Language, accents, and notation have been modified to fit the formatting requirements. Please find the original details on the seminar website. |
regular seminar Carl Wang-Erickson (University of Pittsburgh)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: K0.18 King's Building abstract: | Coleman made observations about overconvergent modular forms of weight at least 2 and critical slope which imply that they are almost spanned by two subspaces corresponding to two different kinds of twist of ordinary overconvergent modular forms. He also showed that the “almost†is accounted for by a square-nilpotent action of Hecke operators. Motivated by questions about Galois representations associated to these forms, we intersect these two twists to define “bi-ordinary†forms. But we do this in a derived way: the sum operation from the two twisted ordinary subspaces to the space of critical forms defines a length 1 “bi-ordinary complex," making the bi-ordinary forms the 0th degree of bi-ordinary cohomology and realizing the square-nilpotent Hecke action as a degree-shifting action. Relying on classical Hida theory as well as the higher Hida theory of Boxer-Pilloni, we interpolate this complex over weights. We can deduce “R=T†theorems in the critical and bi-ordinary cases from R=T theorems in the ordinary case. And specializing to weight 1 under a supplemental assumption, we show that the bi-ordinary complex with its square-nilpotent Hecke action specializes to weight 1 coherent cohomology of the modular curve with a degree-shifting action of a Stark unit group. The action is a candidate for a p-adic realization of conjectures about motivic actions of Venkatesh, Harris, and Prasanna. This is joint work with Francesc Castella.
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regular seminar Christopher Skinner (Princeton University)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: abstract: | Keywords: |
external event Tatsiana (Tanya) Khamiakova (Johnson and Johnson)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: S3.30 abstract: | More information and registration:
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external event Chellafe Ensoy-Musoro and Tatsiana (Tanya) Khamiakova (Johnson and Johnson)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: S3.30 abstract: | More information and registration:
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regular seminar Dmitri Panov (KCL)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: abstract: | Consider a collection of geodesic triangles on the unit sphere, or on a Euclidean plane or on the hyperbolic plane and identify their sides pairwise by isometries. This way you obtain a constant curvature surface with conical singularities, it's called spherical in the first case, Euclidean in the second and hyperbolic in the last. All such surfaces are naturally Riemannian surfaces (with marked points corresponding to conical singularities). An important question is the following: given a Riemann surface $S$ with marked points $x_1,\ldots,x_n$ and prescribed conical angles $2\pi\theta_1,\ldots,2\pi\theta_n$, does there exist on $S$ a conformal constant curvature metric with prescribed conical angles at points $x_i$? How many such metrics do we have? Naturally, these are questions about solutions to a certain non-linear PDE on $S$, and the Gauss-Bonnet formula says that in the case the metric exists, its curvature should have the same sign as $\chi(S)+\sum(\theta_i-1)$. Interestingly, the answer to the above two questions differs drastically according to the sing of the expression. If $\chi(S)+\sum(\theta_i-1)\le 0$ the metric exists and is essentially unique. If $\chi(S)+\sum(\theta_i-1)> 0$ very little is known, in particular neither uniqueness nor existence is guaranteed, we are in the realm of spherical surfaces. However, thinking of a spherical surface as glued from geodesic triangles permits one to avoid solving the PDE, since the solution to it is in your hands already. I will speak about some results obtained this way jointly with Gabriele Mondello and Alik Eremenko. Keywords: |
regular seminar Ofir Gorodetsky (University of Oxford)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: K0.18 abstract: | A random multiplicative function is a multiplicative function alpha(n) such that its values on primes, (alpha(p))_(p=2,3,5,...), are i.i.d. random variables. The simplest example is the Steinhaus function, which is a completely multiplicative function with alpha(p) uniformly distributed on the unit circle. A basic question in the field is finding the limiting distribution of the (normalized) sum of alpha(n) from n=1 to n=x, possibly restricted to a subset of integers of interest. This question is currently resolved only in a few cases. We shall describe ongoing work where we are able to find the limiting distribution in many new instances of interest. The distribution we find is not gaussian, in contrast to all previous works. This is joint work with Mo Dick Wong (Durham University). Keywords: |
colloquium John Maheu (McMaster University (Canado))
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: Strand Building K0.18 abstract: | This talk will discuss Bayesian methods of inference and develop flexible models for financial applications. One approach to flexible modeling is Bayesian nonparametric methods which use an infinite mixture model. A Dirichlet process mixture and an infinite hidden Markov model, a time-dependent version of the former, will be reviewed. Another important feature of financial data is heteroskedasticity. A popular class of specifications for the evolution of the conditional covariance of asset returns is the multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (MGARCH) model. We will discuss an approach to combine an infinite mixture model with MGARCH dynamics suitable to capture the complex distribution of financial data. The talk will conclude with applications of these models to portfolio choice problems to evaluate their usefulness. Keywords: |
regular seminar Jean Lagacé (KCL)
at: 01:00 - 01:00 KCL, Strand room: abstract: | A classical result in spectral theory is that the space of square integrable functions on the modular surface $X = SL(2,\mathbb Z) \backslash SL(2,\mathbb R)$ can be decomposed as the space of Eisenstein series and its orthogonal complements, the cusp forms. The former space corresponds to the spectral projection on the continuous spectrum of the Laplacian on X, and the cusp forms to the projection on the point spectrum. This result is relevant in the geometry of numbers and in dynamics because the modular surface can parameterise the space of all unimodular lattices (and, thus, also the space of all unit area flat tori).
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