Tue, 06 May 2025
15:00
L6

Sublinear bilipschitz equivalences and quasiisometries of Lie groups

Gabriel Pallier
Abstract

I will present some contributions to the quasiisometry classification of solvable Lie groups of exponential growth that we obtain using sublinear bilipschitz equivalences, which are generalized quasiisometries. This is joint work with Ido Grayevsky.

Tue, 29 Apr 2025
15:00
L6

Cannon-Thurston maps for the Morse boundary

Matthew Cordes
Abstract

Fundamental to the study of hyperbolic groups is their Gromov boundaries. The classical Cannon--Thurston map for a closed fibered hyperbolic 3-manifolds relates two such boundaries: it gives a continuous surjection from the boundary of the surface group (a circle) to the boundary of the 3-manifold group (a 2-sphere). Mj (Mitra) generalized this to all hyperbolic groups with hyperbolic normal subgroups. A generalization of the Gromov boundary to all finitely generated groups is called the Morse boundary. It collects all the "hyperbolic-like" rays in a group. In this talk we will discuss Cannon--Thurston maps for Morse boundaries. This is joint work with Ruth Charney, Antoine Goldsborough, Alessandro Sisto and Stefanie Zbinden.

Tue, 27 May 2025
14:00
L6

Differential graded algebras with entire functional calculus

Jon Pridham
(Edinburgh University)
Abstract

(EFC-DGAs) lead to an algebraic approach to derived analytic geometry, pioneered for more general Fermat theories by Carchedi and Roytenberg.
 
They are well-suited to modelling finite-dimensional analytic spaces, and classical theorems in analysis ensure they give a largely equivalent theory to Lurie's more involved approach via pregeometries. DG dagger affinoid spaces provide a well-behaved class of geometric building blocks whose homotopy theory is governed by the underlying EFC-DGAs. 

Time permitting, I might also say a little about non-commutative generalisations.
 

Wed, 05 Mar 2025
16:00
L6

The BNSR Invariant of an Artin group and graph colorings.

Marcos Escartin-Ferrer
(Universidad Zaragoza)
Abstract

The BNSR Invariant is a classical geometric invariant that encodes the finite generation of all coabelian subgroups of a given finitely generated group. The aim of this talk is to present a conjecture about the structure of the BNSR invariant of an Artin group and to present a new family in which the conjecture is true in terms of graph colorings.

Wed, 26 Feb 2025
16:00
L6

Ultrasolid Modules and Deformation Theory

Sofía Marlasca Aparicio
(University of Oxford)
Abstract

We introduce ultrasolid modules, a variant of complete topological vector spaces. In this setting, we will prove some results in commutative algebra and apply them to the deformation of algebraic varieties in the language of derived algebraic geometry.

Tue, 11 Mar 2025
16:00
L6

On non-Gaussian multiplicative chaos

Mo Dick Wong
(Durham University)
Abstract

We consider two approximation schemes for the construction of a class of non-Gaussian multiplicative chaos, and show that they give rise to the same limit in the entire subcritical regime. Our approach uses a modified second moment method with the help of a new coupling argument, and does not rely on any Gaussian approximation or thick point analysis. As an application, we extend the martingale central limit theorem for partial sums of random multiplicative functions to L^1 twists. This is a joint work with Ofir Gorodetsky.

Tue, 04 Mar 2025
16:00
L6

Fermionic structure in the Abelian sandpile and the uniform spanning tree

Alessandra Cipriani
(University College London)
Abstract
In this talk we consider a stochastic system of sand grains moving on a finite graph: the Abelian sandpile, a prototype of self-organized lattice model. We focus on the function that indicates whether a single grain of sand is present at a site, and explore its connections with the discrete Gaussian free field, the uniform spanning tree, and the fermionic Gaussian free field. Based on joint works with L. Chiarini (Durham), R. S. Hazra (Leiden), A. Rapoport and W. Ruszel (Utrecht).



 

Tue, 25 Feb 2025
16:00
L6

The Critical 2d Stochastic Heat Flow and some first properties

Nikos Zygouras
(University of Warwick)
Abstract

The Critical 2d Stochastic Heat Flow arises as a non-trivial solution
of the Stochastic Heat Equation (SHE) at the critical dimension 2 and at a phase transition point.
It is a log-correlated field which is neither Gaussian nor a Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos.
We will review the phase transition of the 2d SHE, describe the main points of the construction of the Critical 2d SHF
and outline some of its features and related questions. Based on joint works with Francesco Caravenna and Rongfeng Sun.

Tue, 18 Feb 2025
16:00
L6

Fluctuations of the ground-state energy of the elastic manifold

Bertrand Lacroix-A-Chez-Toine
(Kings College London)
Abstract

In this talk I will consider properties of the disordered elastic manifold, describing an N-dimensional field u(x) defined for sites x of a d-dimensional lattice of linear size L. This prototypical model is used to describe interfaces in a wide range of physical systems [1]. I will consider properties of the ground-state energy for this model whose optimal configuration u_0(x) results from a compromise between the disorder which tend to favour sharp variations of the field and elastic interactions that smoothen them. I will study in particular the limit of large N>>1 and finite d which has been studied extensively in the physics literature (notably using the replica approach) [1,2] and has recently been considered in a series of paper by Ben Arous and Kivimae [3,4]. For this model, we compute exactly the large deviation function of the ground-state energy E_0, showing that it displays replica-symmetry breaking transitions. As an interesting outcome of this study, we show analytically the validity of the scaling law conjectured by Mezard and Parisi [2] for the variance of the ground-state energy. The latter relates the exponent of the variance Var(E_0)\sim L^{2\theta} such that \theta=2\zeta+d-2 with \zeta the exponent characterising the transverse fluctuations of the optimal configuration u_0(x), i.e.  (u_0(x)-u_0(x+y))^2\sim |y|^{2\zeta}. This work is done in collaboration with Y.V. Fyodorov (KCL) and P. Le Doussal (LPENS, CNRS).

 

[1] Giamarchi, T., & Le Doussal, P. (1998). Statics and dynamics of disordered elastic systems. In Spin glasses and random fields (pp. 321-356).

 

[2] Mézard, M., & Parisi, G. (1991). Replica field theory for random manifolds. Journal de Physique I1(6), 809-836.

 

[3] Ben Arous, G., & Kivimae, P. (2024). The Free Energy of the Elastic Manifold. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.19094.

 

[4] Ben Arous, G., & Kivimae, P. (2024). The larkin mass and replica symmetry breaking in the elastic manifold. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.22601.

Tue, 28 Jan 2025
16:00
L6

Zigzag strategy for random matrices

Sven Joscha Henheik
(IST Austria)
Abstract

It is a remarkable property of random matrices, that their resolvents tend to concentrate around a deterministic matrix as the dimension of the matrix tends to infinity, even for a small imaginary part of the involved spectral parameter.
These estimates are called local laws and they are the cornerstone in most of the recent results in random matrix theory. 
In this talk, I will present a novel method of proving single-resolvent and multi-resolvent local laws for random matrices, the Zigzag strategy, which is a recursive tandem of the characteristic flow method and a Green function comparison argument. Novel results, which we obtained via the Zigzag strategy, include the optimal Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) for Wigner matrices, uniformly in the spectrum, and universality of eigenvalue statistics at cusp singularities for correlated random matrices. 
 

Based on joint works with G. Cipolloni, L. Erdös, O. Kolupaiev, and V. Riabov.

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