## Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 13:30 , Location: ISyE Executive Classroom , Richard Lipton , College Computing, Georgia Tech , Organizer: Annette Rohrs
Shrouded in mystery and kept hidden for decades, Richard Lipton's vault of open problems will be revealed...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 12:00 , Location: Skiles 255 , Sinem Celik Onaran , Department of Mathematics, Middle East Technical University , Organizer:
Due to Alexander, it is well known that every closed oriented 3-manifold has an open book decomposition. In this talk, we will define open book decompositions of 3-manifolds. We will discuss various examples and sketch the proof of Alexander's theorem. Further, we will discuss the importance of the open books in manifold theory, in particular in contact geometry.
Series: PDE Seminar
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 15:05 , Location: Skiles 255 , Changfeng Gui , University of Connecticut , Organizer:
In this talk I will present Hamiltonian identities for elliptic PDEs and systems of PDEs. I will also show some interesting applications of these identities to problems related to solutions of some nonlinear elliptic equations in the entire space or plane. In particular, I will give a rigorous proof to the Young's law in triple junction configuration for a vector-valued Allen Cahn model arising in phase transition; a necessary condition for the existence of certain saddle solutions for Allen-Cahn equation with asymmetric double well potential will be derived, and the structure of level sets of general saddle solutions will also be discussed.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 269 , Dmitry Kreslavskiy , Bloomberg , Organizer: Christian Houdre
We will give an overview of the company as it relates to the work of a quant. We will discuss projects of interest, typical lifecycle of a project, and involved areas.
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 16:30 , Location: Skiles 255 , Pablo Laguna , School of Physics, Georgia Tech , Organizer: Yingfei Yi
I will review results from binary black hole simulations and the role that these simulations have in astrophysics and gravitational wave observations. I will then focus on the mathematical and computational aspects of the recent breakthroughs in numerical relativity that have made finding binary black hole solutions to the Einstein field equations an almost routine exercise.
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 255 , Dapeng Zhan , Yale University , Organizer:
Stochastic Loewner evolution (SLE) introduced by Oded Schramm is a breakthrough in studying the scaling limits of many two-dimensional lattice models from statistical physics. In this talk, I will discuss the proofs of the reversibility conjecture and duality conjecture about SLE. The proofs of these two conjectures use the same idea, which is to use a coupling technique to lift local couplings of two SLE processes that locally commute with each other to a global coupling. And from the global coupling, we can clearly see that the two conjectures hold.
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 14:00 , Location: Skiles 255 , Chris Heil , School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech , Organizer: Plamen Iliev
The Balian-Low Theorem is a strong form of the uncertainty principle for Gabor systems that form orthonormal or Riesz bases for L^2(R). In this talk we will discuss the Balian-Low Theorem in the setting of Schauder bases. We prove that new weak versions of the Balian-Low Theorem hold for Gabor Schauder bases, but we constructively demonstrate that several variants of the BLT can fail for Gabor Schauder bases that are not Riesz bases. We characterize a class of Gabor Schauder bases in terms of the Zak transform and product A_2 weights; the Riesz bases correspond to the special case of weights that are bounded away from zero and infinity. This is joint work with Alex Powell (Vanderbilt University).
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 13:00 , Location: Skiles 269 , John Etnyre , School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech , Organizer: John Etnyre
I will discuss a "duality" among the linearized contact homology groups of a Legendrian submanifold in certain contact manifolds (in particular in Euclidean (2n+1)-space). This duality is expressed in a long exact sequence relating the linearized contact homology, linearized contact cohomology and the ordinary homology of the Legendrian submanifold. One can use this structure to ease difficult computations of linearized contact homology in high dimensions and further illuminate the proof of cases of the Arnold Conjecture for the double points of an exact Lagrangian in complex n- space.
Series: Other Talks
Friday, January 30, 2009 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 269 , Mohammad Ghomi , School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech , Organizer: John Etnyre

Please note this course runs from 3-5.

h-Principle consists of a powerful collection of tools developed by Gromov and others to solve underdetermined partial differential equations or relations which arise in differential geometry and topology. In these talks I will describe the Holonomic approximation theorem of Eliashberg-Mishachev, and discuss some of its applications including the sphere eversion theorem of Smale. Further I will discuss the method of convex integration and its application to proving the C^1 isometric embedding theorem of Nash.
Friday, January 30, 2009 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 269 , Mohammad Ghomi , Ga Tech , Organizer: John Etnyre
$h$-Principle consists of a powerful collection of tools developed by Gromov and others to solve underdetermined partial differential equations or relations which arise in differential geometry and topology. In these talks I will describe the Holonomic approximation theorem of Eliashberg-Mishachev, and discuss some of its applications including the sphere eversion theorem of Smale. Further I will discuss the method of convex integration and its application to proving the $C^1$ isometric embedding theorem of Nash. (Please note this course runs from 3-5.)