Thu, 29 Apr 2010
13:00
DH 1st floor SR

Girsanov's theorem, martingale representation and BSDE

Zhongmin Qian
(Oxford)
Abstract

This talk I present a study of BSDEs with non-linear terms of quadratic growth by using Girsanov's theorem. In particular we are able to establish a non-linear version of the Cameron-Martin formula, which can be for example used to obtain gradient estimates for some non-linear parabolic equations.

Thu, 03 Jun 2010
17:00
L3

Topos Quantum Logic

Andreas Doering
(Oxford)
Abstract

Standard quantum logic, as intitiated by Birkhoff and von Neumann, suffers from severe problems which relate quite directly to interpretational issues in the foundations of quantum theory. In this talk, I will present some aspects of the so-called topos approach to quantum theory, as initiated by Isham and Butterfield, which aims at a mathematical reformulation of quantum theory and provides a new, well-behaved form of quantum logic that is based upon the internal logic of a certain (pre)sheaf topos.

Thu, 20 May 2010

16:30 - 17:30
L2

Change of Mind: Optical Control of Neural Circuits

Gero Miesenboeck
(Oxford)
Abstract

An emerging set of methods enables an experimental dialogue with biological systems composed of many interacting cell types---in particular, with neural circuits in the brain. These methods are sometimes called “optogenetic” because they employ light-responsive proteins (“opto-“) encoded in DNA (“-genetic”). Optogenetic devices can be introduced into tissues or whole organisms by genetic manipulation and be expressed in anatomically or functionally defined groups of cells. Two kinds of devices perform complementary functions: light-driven actuators control electrochemical signals; light-emitting sensors report them. Actuators pose questions by delivering targeted perturbations; sensors (and other measurements) signal answers. These catechisms are beginning to yield previously unattainable insight into the organization of neural circuits, the regulation of their collective dynamics, and the causal relationships between cellular activity patterns and behavior.

Fri, 18 Jun 2010

10:00 - 11:30
DH 3rd floor SR

DPhil student transfer of status presentations

Various
(Oxford)
Abstract

Puck Rombach;

"Weighted Generalization of the Chromatic Number in Networks with Community Structure",

Christopher Lustri;

"Exponential Asymptotics for Time-Varying Flows,

Alex Shabala

"Mathematical Modelling of Oncolytic Virotherapy",

Martin Gould;

"Foreign Exchange Trading and The Limit Order Book"

Tue, 16 Feb 2010

15:45 - 16:45
L3

Moduli Spaces of Sheaves on Toric Varieties

Martijn Kool
(Oxford)
Abstract

Extending work of Klyachko, we give a combinatorial description of pure equivariant sheaves on a nonsingular projective toric variety X and use this description to construct moduli spaces of such sheaves. These moduli spaces are explicit and combinatorial in nature. Subsequently, we consider the moduli space M of all Gieseker stable sheaves on X and describe its fixed point locus in terms of the moduli spaces of pure equivariant sheaves on X. As an application, we compute generating functions of Euler characteristics of M in case X is a toric surface. In the torsion free case, one finds examples of new as well as known generating functions. In the pure dimension 1 case using a conjecture of Sheldon Katz, one obtains examples of genus zero Gopakumar-Vafa invariants of the canonical bundle of X.

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