Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis

An Algebraic Approach on Fusions of Synchronization Models

Speaker: 
Hansol Park
Date: 
Wed, Dec 8, 2021
Location: 
PIMS, University of British Columbia
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Conference: 
Emergent Research: The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar
Abstract: 

In this talk, we study an algebraic approach to fusions of synchronization models. The Lohe tensor model is a generalized synchronization model which contains three synchronization models; the Kuramoto model(on the circle), the swarm sphere model(on the sphere), and the Lohe matrix model(on the unitary group). Since the Lohe tensor model contains any synchronization models defined on any rank and size of tensors, we use this model to study fusions of synchronization models. The final goal of the study is to present a fusion of multiple Lohe tensor models for different rank tensors and sizes. For this, we identify an admissible Cauchy problem to the Lohe tensor model with a characteristic symbol consisting of a size vector, a natural frequency tensor, a coupling strength tensor, and an initial admissible configuration. In this way, the collection of all admissible Cauchy problems for the Lohe tensor models is equivalent to the space of characteristic symbols. On the other hand, we introduce a binary operation which we call “fusion operation," as a binary operation between characteristic symbols. It turns out that the fusion operation satisfies associativity and admits an identity element in the space of characteristic symbols that naturally form a monoid. By the fusion operation, the weakly coupled system of multi tensor models can be obtained by applying the fusion operation of multiple characteristic symbols corresponding to the Lohe tensor models. As a concrete example, we consider a weak coupling of the swarm sphere model and the Lohe matrix model and provide a sufficient framework leading to emergent dynamics to this coupled model.

Speaker Biography

Hansol Park was born and raised in the Republic of Korea(South Korea). He got a Ph. D. in mathematics in 2021 from Seoul National University(Advisor: Prof. Seung-Yeal Ha). During his doctoral period, he tried to integrate various types of synchronization models. Currently, he is a PIMS Postdoc at Simon Fraser University under Prof. Razvan C. Fetecau. So far, most of his researches are related to particle systems with interactions. Recently, he is interested in variation methods (minimization problem) and information geometry.

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Z_2 harmonic spinors in gauge theory

Speaker: 
Rafe Mazzeo
Date: 
Thu, Nov 18, 2021
Location: 
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Conference: 
PIMS Network Wide Colloquium
Abstract: 

Gauge-theoretic moduli spaces are often noncompact, and various techniques have been introduced to study their asymptotic features. Seminal work by Taubes shows that in many situations where the failure of compactness for sequences of solutions is due to the noncompactness of the gauge group, diverging sequences of solutions lead to what he called Z_2 harmonic spinors. These are multivalued solutions of a twisted Dirac equation which are branched along a codimension two subset. This leads to a number of new problems related to these Z_2 harmonic spinors as interesting geometric objects in their own right. I will survey this subject and talk about some recent work in progress with Haydys and Takahashi to compute the index of the associated deformation problem.

Speaker Biography

Rafe Mazzeo is an expert in PDEs and Microlocal analysis. He did his PhD at MIT, and was then appointed as Szegő Assistant Professor at Stanford University, where he is now Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics. He has served the mathematical community in many important ways, including as Director of the Park City Mathematics Institute.

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Decision problems, curvature and topology

Author: 
Martin Birdson
Date: 
Tue, Jul 7, 2015
Location: 
PIMS, University of British Columbia
Conference: 
PIMS Symposium on the Geometry and Topology of Manifolds
Abstract: 

I shall discuss a range of problems in which groups mediate between topological/geometric constructions and algorithmic problems elsewhere in mathematics, with impact in both directions. I shall begin with a discussion of sphere recognition in different dimensions. I'll explain why there is no algorithm that can determine if a compact homology sphere of dimension 5 or more has a non-trivial finite-sheeted covering. I'll sketch how ideas coming from the study of CAT(0) cube complexes were used by Henry Wilton and me to settle isomorphism problems for profinite groups, and to settle a conjecture in combinatorics concerning the extension problem for sets of partial permutations.

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Adam Clay Lecture 1 of 2

Speaker: 
Adam Clay
Date: 
Mon, Feb 23, 2015
Location: 
PIMS, University of British Columbia
Abstract: 

This lecture is part of a course organized by Dale Rolfsen.

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Adam Clay Lecture 2 of 2

Speaker: 
Adam Clay
Date: 
Tue, Feb 24, 2015
Location: 
PIMS, University of British Columbia
Abstract: 

This lecture is part of a course organized by Dale Rolfsen.

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Adam Clay Lecture 1 of 2

Speaker: 
Adam Clay
Date: 
Mon, Feb 23, 2015
Location: 
PIMS, University of British Columbia
Abstract: 

This lecture is part of a course organized by Dale Rolfsen.
 

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The Work of Misha Gromov, a Truly Original Thinker

Speaker: 
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Date: 
Fri, Apr 5, 2013
Location: 
PIMS, University of British Columbia
Conference: 
Special Lecture
Abstract: 

The work of Misha Gromov has revolutionized geometry in many respects, but at the same time introduced a geometric point of view in many questions. His impact is very broad and one can say without exaggeration that many fields are not the same after the introduction of Gromov's ideas.I will try and explain several avenues that Gromov has been pursuing, stressing the changes in points of view that he brought in non-technical terms.Here is a list of topics that the lecture will touch:

  1. The h-Principle
  2. Distance and Riemannian Geometry
  3. Group Theory and Negative Curvature
  4. Symplectic Geometry
  5. A wealth of Geometric Invariants
  6. Interface with other Sciences
  7. Conceptualizing Concept Creation
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A glimpse into the differential geometry and topology of optimal transportation

Speaker: 
Robert McCann
Date: 
Mon, Aug 20, 2012 to Tue, Aug 21, 2012
Location: 
PIMS, University of British Columbia
Conference: 
PIMS/UBC Distinguished Lecture Series
Abstract: 

The Monge-Kantorovich optimal transportation problem is to pair producers with consumers so as to minimize a given transportation cost. When the producers and consumers are modeled by probability densities on two given manifolds or subdomains, it is interesting to try to understand the structure of the optimal pairing as a subset of the product manifold. This subset may or may not be the graph of a map.

The talk will expose the differential topology and geometry underlying many basic phenomena in optimal transportation. It surveys questions concerning Monge maps and Kantorovich measures: existence and regularity of the former, uniqueness of the latter, and estimates for the dimension of its support, as well as the associated linear programming duality. It shows the answers to these questions concern the differential geometry and topology of the chosen transportation cost. It establishes new connections --- some heuristic and others rigorous ---based on the properties of the cross-difference of this cost, and its Taylor expansion at the diagonal.

See preprint at www.math.toronto.edu/mccann/publications

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Gauge Theory and Khovanov Homology

Speaker: 
Edward Witten
Date: 
Sat, Feb 18, 2012
Location: 
PIMS, University of Washington
Abstract: 

After reviewing ordinary finite-dimensional Morse theory, I will explain how Morse generalized Morse theory to loop spaces, and how Floer generalized it to gauge theory on a three-manifold. Then I will describe an analog of Floer cohomology with the gauge group taken to be a complex Lie group (rather than a compact group as assumed by Floer), and how this is expected to be related to the Jones polynomial of knots and Khovanov homology.

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Embedding questions in symplectic geometry

Speaker: 
Dusa McDuff
Date: 
Fri, Nov 4, 2011
Location: 
PIMS, University of British Columbia
Conference: 
PIMS/UBC Distinguished Colloquium
Abstract: 

As has been known since the time of Gromov's Nonsqueezing Theorem, symplectic embedding questions lie at the heart of symplectic geometry.

In the past few years we have gained significant new insight into the question of when there is a symplectic embedding of one basic geometric shape (such as a ball or ellipsoid)into another (such as an ellipsoid or torus). After a brief introduction to symplectic geometry, this talk will describe some of this progress, with particular emphasis on results in dimension four.

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