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Geometry and Analysis Seminar (past)

Mon, 06/05
14:15 		Nigel Hitchin (Oxford) Geometry and Analysis Seminar Add to calendar L3
Real Higgs bundles and mirror symmetry.
Mon, 25/02
14:15 		Hans-Joachim Hein (Imperial College) Geometry and Analysis Seminar Add to calendar L3
Calabi-Yau manifolds modelled on cones
Mon, 14/01
14:15 		Peter Topping (Warwick) Geometry and Analysis Seminar Add to calendar L3
The Teichmueller harmonic map flow
Mon, 26/11/2012
14:15 		Michael Monastyrsky (ITEP) Geometry and Analysis Seminar Add to calendar L3
Geometry and topology of superfluid liquids
The lecture will discuss some applications of topology to a number of interesting physical systems: 1. Classifications of Phases, 2. Classifications of one-dimensional textures in Nematics and Superfluid HE-3, 3. Classification of defects, 4. Phase transition in Liquid membranes. The solution of these problems leads to interesting mathematics but the talk will also include some historical remarks.
Mon, 19/11/2012
14:15 		Jeff Giansiracusa (Swansea) Geometry and Analysis Seminar Add to calendar L3
Tropical geometry and scheme theory
Motived by the desire to study geometry over the 'field with one element', in the past decade several authors have constructed extensions of scheme theory to geometries locally modelled on algebraic objects more general than rings. Semi-ring schemes exist in all of these theories, and it has been suggested that schemes over the semi-ring T of tropical numbers should describe the polyhedral objects of tropical geometry. We show that this is indeed the case by lifting Payne's tropicalization functor for subvarieties of toric varieties to the category of T-schemes. There are many applications such as tropical Hilbert schemes, tropical sheaf theory, and group actions and quotients in tropical geometry. This project is joint work with N. Giansiracusa (Berkeley).
Mon, 12/11/2012
14:15 		Alexander Ritter (Cambridge) Geometry and Analysis Seminar Add to calendar L3
Floer theory for negative line bundles
Mon, 05/11/2012
14:15 		Anders Karlsson (Geneva) Geometry and Analysis Seminar Add to calendar L3
Spanning trees and heights of tori
Given a flat torus, we consider certain discrete graph approximations of it and determine the asymptotics of the number of spanning trees ("complexity") of these graphs as the mesh gets finer. The constants in the asymptotics involve various notions of determinants such as the determinant of the Laplacian ("height") of the torus. The analogy between the complexity of graphs and the height of manifolds was previously commented on by Sarnak and Kenyon. In dimension two, similar asymptotics were established earlier by Barber and Duplantier-David in the context of statistical physics. Our proofs rely on heat kernel analysis involving Bessel functions, which in the torus case leads into modular forms and Epstein zeta functions. In view of a folklore conjecture it also suggests that tori corresponding to densest regular sphere packings should have approximating graphs with the largest number of spanning trees, a desirable property in network theory. Joint work with G. Chinta and J. Jorgenson.
Mon, 29/10/2012
14:15 		Andrew Dancer (Oxford) Geometry and Analysis Seminar Add to calendar L3
Hyperkaehler implosion
Mon, 08/10/2012
14:15 		Nigel Hitchin (Oxford) Geometry and Analysis Seminar Add to calendar L3
The hyperholomorphic line bundle revisited

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