We prove higher differentiability of bounded local minimizers to some degenerate functionals satisfying anisotropic growth conditions. In the two-dimensional case we also study the Lipschitz regularity of such minimizers without any limitation on the exponents of anisotropy.

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I'll discuss the problem of controlling energy concentration in YM flow over a four-manifold. Based on a study of the rotationally symmetric case, it was conjectured in 1997 that bubbling can only occur at infinite time. My thesis contained some strong elementary results on this problem, which I've now solved in full generality by a more involved method.

The talk will be a survey of recent work on the connections between group operator systems and non-signalling correlations. I will show how tensor products in the operator system category can be interpreted as physical theories, and will exhibit a refinement of non-signalling corrections giving rise to quantum attributes of graphs, including quantum versions of the chromatic and the fractional chromatic number. Relations between the parameters will be examined and further directions will be discussed.

Not considering classified work, the first person to have asked and solved the problem of secure communication over insecure communication channels was Ralph Merkle, in a project for a Computer securitjohn y course at UC Berkeley in 1974. In this work, he gave a protocol that allow two legitimate parties to establish a secret key with an effort of the order of N, but such that an eavesdropper can not discover the secret key with non-vanishing probability if he is not willing to spend an effort of at least the order of N^2.
In this talk, we will consider key exchange protocols in the presence of a quantum eavesdropper. Unfortunately, it is easy to see that in this case, breaking Merkle’s original protocol only requires an effort of the order of N, similar to the one of the legitimate parties. We will show how to restore the security by presenting two sequences of protocols with the following properties:
- In the first sequence, the legitimate parties have access to a quantum computer, and the eavesdropper's effort is arbitrarily close to N^2.
- In the second sequence, the protocols are classical, but the eavesdropper’s effort is arbitrarily close to N^{3/2}.
We will show the key exchange protocols, the quantum attacks with the proof of their optimality. We will focus mostly on the techniques from quantum algorithms and complexity theory used to devise quantum algorithms and to prove lower bounds. The underlying tools are the quantum walk formalism, and the quantum adversary lower bound method, respectively. Finally, we will introduce a new method to prove average-case quantum query complexity lower bounds.

 For a group algebra over a self-injective ring
there are two stable categories: the usual one modulo projectives
and a relative one where one works modulo representations
which are free over the coefficient ring.
I'll describe the connection between these two stable categories,
which are "birational" in an appropriate sense.
I'll then make some comments on the specific case
where the coefficient ring is Z/nZ and give a more
precise description of the relative stable category.