I will talk about supersymmetric quantum field theories with 8 supercharges in dimensions 3-6. After a brief introduction I will mostly speak about the moduli space of vacua of such theories, and in particular their Higgs branches, which are so called symplectic singularities (or mild generalisations thereof). Powerful theorems from mathematics say that a singular Higgs branch is stratified into a disjoint union of smooth open subsets, so called symplectic leaves. This stratification matches exactly the pattern of partial Higgsings of the theory in question. After introducing the stratification and explaining its physical interpretation, I will show how brane systems and so called magnetic quivers can be used to compute it.

We review the construction of non-invertible duality defects in various dimensions. We explain how they can be preserved along RG flows and how their realization on gapped phases contains their 't Hooft anomalies. We finally give a presentation of the anomalies from the Symmetry TFT. Time permitting I will discuss some possible future applications.

I will present some results from the newly developed theory of wavelets; based on the joint work with the following authors:

P.M. Luthy, H.Šikić, F.Soria, G.L.Weiss, E.N.Wilson.One-DimensionalDyadic Wavelets.Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 280 (2022), no 1378, ix+152 pp.

About two and a half decades ago and based on the influential book by Fernandez and Weiss, an approach was developed to study wavelets from the point of view of their connections with Fourier analysis. The idea was to study wavelets and other reproducing function systems via the four basic equations that characterized various properties of wavelet systems, like frame and basis properties, completeness, orthogonality, etc. Despite hundreds of research papers and the impressive development of the theory of such systems, some questions remain open even in the basic case of dyadic wavelets on the real line. Among the most thorough treatments that we provide in this lengthy paper is the issue of the understanding of the low-pass filters associated with the MRA structure. In this talk, I will focus on some of these results. As it turned out, a more general and abstract approach to the problem, using the study of dyadic orbits and the newly introduced Tauberian function, reveals several interesting properties and opens an interesting context for some older results

We consider the Hookean dumbbell model, a system of nonlinear PDEs arising in the kinetic theory of homogeneous dilute polymeric fluids. It consists of the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a bounded Lipschitz domain, coupled to a Fokker-Planck-type parabolic equation with a centre-of-mass diffusion term, for the probability density function, modelling the evolution of the configuration of noninteracting polymer molecules in the solvent.

The micro-macro interaction is reflected by the presence of a drag term in the Fokker-Planck equation and the divergence of a polymeric extra-stress tensor in the Navier-Stokes balance of momentum equation. In a simplified case where the drag term is corotational, we prove global existence of weak solutions and discuss some of their properties: we use the relative energy method to deduce a weak-strong uniqueness type result, and derive the macroscopic closure of the kinetic model: a corotational Oldroyd-B model with stress-diffusion.

In the general noncorotational case, we consider “generalised dissipative solutions” — a relaxation of the usual notion of weak solution, allowing for the presence of a, possibly nonzero, defect measure in the momentum equation, which accounts for the lack of compactness in the polymeric extra-stress tensor. Joint work with Endre Suli (Oxford).