15:30
On the birational geometry of algebraically integrable foliations
Abstract
I will review recent progress on extending the Minimal Model Program to algebraically integrable foliations, focusing on applications such as the canonical bundle formula and recent results toward the boundedness of Fano foliations.
In this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture Gábor Domokos will use the geometric theory of tilings to describe natural patterns ranging from nanoscale to planetary scale, appearing in physics, biology, and geology and will introduce a new class of shapes called soft cells, which appear in both living and non-living nature.
16:00
Uniform Equidistribution of Quadratic Polynomials via Averages of $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})$ Automorphic Kernels
Abstract
In recent joint work with J. Merikoski, we developed a new way to employ $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})$ spectral methods to number-theoretical counting problems, entirely avoiding Kloosterman sums and the Kuznetsov formula. The main result is an asymptotic formula for an automorphic kernel, with error terms controlled by two new kernels. This framework proves particularly effective when averaging over the level and leads to improvements in equidistribution results involving quadratic polynomials. In particular, we show that the largest prime divisor of $n^2 + h$ is infinitely often larger than $n^{1.312}$, recovering earlier results that had relied on the Selberg eigenvalue conjecture. Furthermore, we obtain, for the first time in this setting, strong uniformity in the parameter $h$.