JHU-UMD Joint Seminar in Geometry: Hamid Hezari (UCI)

Maryland 114

Title: The inverse spectral problem for ellipses Abstract: This talk is about Kac‘s inverse problem from 1966: ​ ​"Can one hear the shape of a drum?" The question asks whether the frequencies of vibration of a bounded domain determine the shape of the domain. First we present a quick survey on the known results. Then […]

Undergraduate Seminar: Rahul Dalal

Krieger 413

Title: What is an automorphic representation? Abstract: Andrew Wiles' famous proof of Fermat's last theorem was crucially based on constructing a mysterious connection between two classes of mathematical objects: "modular forms" and "elliptic curves". However, if you try looking up what a modular form actually is, you'll find an elementary but very unmotivated definition involving functions on […]

Analysis seminar: Davide Parise (UCSD)

Krieger 302

Title: Boundary behavior of the Allen-Cahn equation and the construction of free boundary minimal hypersurfacesAbstract: In the late 70s, the work of Modica, Mortola, De Giorgi, and many others established deep connections between the Allen-Cahn equation, a semi-linear elliptic equation arising in the van der Waals-Cahn-Hilliard theory of phase transitions, and minimal hypersurfaces, i.e. critical […]

Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Yoon-Joo Kim (Columbia)

Hodson 216

Title: Isotrivial fibrations of hyper-Kähler manifolds.Abstract: A Lagrangian fibration of a projective hyper-Kähler manifold is called isotrivial if its smooth (abelian variety) fibers are all isomorphic to each other. Given an isotrivial fibration of a HK manifold f : X -> B with at least one rational section, we prove the following four descriptions of the fibration: […]

Number Theory Seminar: Zhiyu Zhang (Stanford University)

Maryland 201

Title: Twisted Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture and arithmetic fundamental lemma Abstract: The twisted Gan-Gross-Prasad (GGP) conjecture opens a way of studying (a twist of) central Asai L-values via descents and period integrals. Firstly, I will prove new cases of twisted GGP conjecture (joint work with Weixiao Lu and Danielle Wang), based on the relative trace formula approach […]