2016 Nov 22

# SPECIAL Analysis and PDEs seminar -D. Fajman "Dynamics of Spacetime — Einstein’s equations as a geometric flow."

11:00am to 12:00pm

Ross 70
Abstract:
2017 Apr 27

# PDE and Analysis Seminar: Grzegorz Swiderski (Wroclaw)

1:00pm to 2:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Title: Asymptotics of Christoffel functions in an unbounded setting Abstract: Consider a measure $\mu$ supported on the real line with all moments finite. Let $(p_n : n \geq 0)$ be the corresponding sequence of orthonormal polynomials. This sequence satisfies the three-term recurrence relation $a_{n-1} p_{n-1}(x) + b_n p_n(x) a_n p_{n+1}(x) = x p_n(x) \quad (n > 0)$ for some sequences $a$ and $b$. One defines the $n$th Christoffel function by $\lambda_n(x) = \left[ \sum_{k=0}^n p_k(x)^2 \right]^{-1}.$ In the talk, under some regularity hypotheses on $a$ and $b$, we show
2017 Dec 06

# Jerusalem Analysis and PDEs seminar: "Asymptotics of the ground state energy for relativistic heavy atoms and molecules" Victor Ivrii (Toronto)

12:00pm to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70.
We discuss sharp asymptotics of the ground state energy for the heavy atoms and molecules in the relativistic settings, without magnetic field or with the self-generated magnetic field, and, in particular, relativistic Scott correction term and also Dirac, Schwinger and relativistic correction terms. In particular, we conclude that the Thomas-Fermi density approximates the actual density of the ground state, which opens the way to estimate the excessive negative and positive charges and the ionization energy.
2016 Nov 10

# Analysis and PDEs - Maurice Duits (KTH) Title: Global fluctuations for non-colliding processes

1:00pm to 2:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
In this talk we will discuss the global fluctuations for a class of determinantal point processes coming from large systems of non-colliding processes and non-intersecting paths. By viewing the paths as level lines these systems give rise to random (stepped) surfaces. When the number of paths is large a limit shape appears. The fluctuations for the random surfaces are believed to be universally described by the Gaussian Free Field.
2017 Nov 22

# Jerusalem Analysis Seminar: "Inverse Problems with applications to Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM)",Roy Lederman

12:00pm to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Abstract: Cryo-EM is an imaging technology that is revolutionizing structural biology; the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was recently awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution".
2017 Mar 16

# Analysis and PDEs: Mayukh Mukherjee (Technion) - Some asymptotic estimates on the geometry of Laplace eigenfunctions

1:00pm to 2:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Given a closed smooth Riemannian manifold M, the Laplace operator is known to possess a discrete spectrum of eigenvalues going to infinity. We are interested in the properties of the nodal sets and nodal domains of corresponding eigenfunctions in the high energy limit. We focus on some recent results on the size of nodal domains and tubular neighbourhoods of nodal sets of such high energy eigenfunctions (joint work with Bogdan Georgiev).
2017 Nov 16

2:00pm to 3:00pm

2017 Jun 29

# Special Seminar: Ayala Byron (HUJI) "Homogeneity of torsion-free hyperbolic groups"

2:00pm to 3:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Abstract: A (countable) group G is homogeneous if whenever g,h are tupples of the same type in G, there is an automorphism of G sending g to h. We give a characterization of freely-indecomposable torsion-free hyperbolic groups which are homogeneous, in terms of a particular decomposition as a graph of groups - their JSJ decomposition. This is joint work with Chloe Perin. ‏האירוע הזה כולל שיחת וידאו ב-Google Hangouts.
2017 May 09

# Topology & Geometry Seminar: Serap Gurer (Galatasaray University), "(Co)homology theories on diffeological spaces".

11:00am to 12:00pm

## Location:

Ross A70.
Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce diffeological spaces and some (co)homology theories on these spaces. I will also talk on Thom-Mather spaces and their (co)homology in the diffeological context.
2017 Aug 09

# Topology and Geometry Seminar: "Bordered methods in knot Floer homology" Peter Ozsvath, Princeton University

12:00pm to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70A
Abstract: Knot Floer homology is an invariant for knots in the three-sphere defined using methods from symplectic geometry. I will describe a new algebraic formulation of this invariant which leads to a reasonably efficient computation of these invariants. This is joint work with Zoltan Szabo.
2017 Jun 13

# Topology and Geometry Seminar: Alexander Caviedes Castro (Tel-Aviv University), "Symplectic capacities and Cayley graphs"

1:00pm to 1:50pm

## Location:

Ross 70A
Abstract: The Gromov non-squeezing theorem in symplectic geometry states that is not possible to embed symplectically a ball into a cylinder of smaller radius, although this can be done with a volume preserving embedding. Hence, the biggest radius of a ball that can be symplectically embedded into a symplectic manifold can be used as a way to measure the "symplectic size'' of the manifold. We call the square of this radius times the number \pi the Gromov width of the symplectic manifold. The Gromov width as a symplectic invariant is extended through the notion of "Symplectic Capacity".
2017 May 10

# Peli Grietzer (Harvard literature dept.)

4:00pm to 5:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70.
Abstract: In 1962, amateur literary theorist and professional mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov wrote: ‘A story is art only if the characters and situations it describes stand a chance of becoming
2017 Nov 27

# Andreas Thom, "C*-algebras and group theory (continued)"

9:00am to 11:00am

## Location:

Room 130, Feldman Building (IIAS), Givat Ram
2017 Dec 25

# HD-Combinatorics: Shai Evra, "Bounded degree high dimensional expanders"

2:00pm to 4:00pm

In the recent theory of high dimensional expanders, the following open problem was raised by Gromov: Are there bounded degree high dimensional expanders? For the definition of high dimensional expanders, we shall follow the pioneers of this field, and consider the notions of coboundary expanders (Linial-Meshulam) and topological expanders (Gromov). In a recent work, building on an earlier work of Kaufman-Kazhdan-Lubotzky in dimension 2, we were able to prove the existence of bounded degree expanders according to Gromov, in every dimension.