Seminars and Colloquia Schedule

Two-component L-space links, satellite and the tau-invariant

Series
Geometry Topology Seminar
Time
Monday, April 7, 2025 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Daren ChenCalTech

A result by Ozsvath and Szabo states that the knot Floer complex of an L-space knot is a staircase. In this talk, we will discuss a similar result for two-component L-space links: the link Floer complex of such links can be thought of as an array of staircases. We will describe an algorithm to extract this array directly from the H-function of the link. As an application, we will discuss how to use this and the link surgery formula to compute the knot Floer complex and the tau-invariant of a certain class of satellite knots. This is joint work with Ian Zemke and Hugo Zhou.

An energy-stable machine-learning model of non-Newtonian hydrodynamics with molecular fidelity

Series
Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar
Time
Monday, April 7, 2025 - 14:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005 and https://gatech.zoom.us/j/94954654170
Speaker
Huan LeiMichigan State University

One essential challenge in the computational modeling of multiscale systems is the availability of reliable and interpretable closures that faithfully encode the micro-dynamics. For systems without clear scale separation, there generally exists no such a simple set of macro-scale field variables that allow us to project and predict the dynamics in a self-determined way. We introduce a machine-learning (ML) based approach that enables us to reduce high-dimensional multi-scale systems to reliable macro-scale models with low-dimensional variational structures that preserve canonical degeneracies and symmetry constraints. The non-Newtonian hydrodynamics of polymeric fluids is used as an example to illustrate the essential idea. Unlike our conventional wisdom about ML modeling that focuses on learning the PDE form, the present approach directly learns the energy variational structure from the micro-model through an end-to-end process via the joint learning of a set of micro-macro encoder functions. The final model, named the deep non-Newtonian model (DeePN2), retains a multi-scale nature with clear physical interpretation and strictly preserves the frame-indifference constraints. We show that DeePN2 can capture the broadly overlooked viscoelastic differences arising from the specific molecular structural mechanics without human intervention.

Non-uniqueness and vanishing viscosity

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 15:30 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Dallas AlbrittonUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

The forced 2D Euler equations exhibit non-unique solutions with vorticity in Lp, p>1, whereas the corresponding Navier-Stokes solutions are unique. We investigate whether the inviscid limit ν0+ from the forced 2D Navier-Stokes to Euler equations is a selection principle capable of resolving" the non-uniqueness. We focus on solutions in a neighborhood of the non-uniqueness scenario discovered by Vishik; specifically, we incorporate viscosity ν and consider O(ε)-size perturbations of his initial datum. We discover a uniqueness threshold ενκc, below which the vanishing viscosity solution is unique and radial, and at which certain vanishing viscosity solutions converge to non-unique, non-radial solutions. Joint work with Maria Colombo and Giulia Mescolini (EPFL).

Non-vanishing of Ceresa and Gross--Kudla--Schoen cycles

Series
Number Theory
Time
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 15:30 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Wanlin LiWashington University

The Ceresa cycle and the Gross—Kudla—Schoen modified diagonal cycle are algebraic 1-cycles associated to a smooth algebraic curve. They are algebraically trivial for a hyperelliptic curve and non-trivial for a very general complex curve of genus >2. Given an algebraic curve, it is an interesting question to study whether the Ceresa and GKS cycles associated to it are rationally or algebraically trivial. In this talk, I will discuss some methods and tools to study this problem

Recent results on traveling water waves

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 15:30 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Jörg WeberUniversity of Vienna

While the research on water waves modeled by Euler's equations has a long history, mainly in the last two decades traveling periodic rotational waves have been constructed rigorously by means of bifurcation theorems. After introducing the problem, I will present a new reformulation in two dimensions in the pure-gravity case, where the problem is equivalently cast into the form "identity plus compact," which is amenable to Rabinowitz's global bifurcation theorem. The main advantages (and the novelty) of this new reformulation are that no simplifying restrictions on the geometry of the surface profile and no simplifying assumptions on the vorticity distribution (and thus no assumptions regarding the absence of stagnation points or critical layers) have to be made. Within the scope of this new formulation, global families of solutions, bifurcating from laminar flows with a flat surface, are constructed. Moreover, I will discuss the possible alternatives for the global set of solutions, as well as their nodal properties. This is joint work with Erik Wahlén.

Solvability of Some Integro-Differential Equations with Transport and Concentrated Sources

Series
Math Physics Seminar
Time
Friday, April 11, 2025 - 11:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
ONLINE
Speaker
Vitali VougalterUniversity of Toronto

The work deals with the existence of solutions of an integro-differential equation in the case of the normal diffusion and the influx/efflux term proportional to the Dirac delta function in the presence of the drift term. The proof of the existence of solutions relies on a fixed point technique. We use the solvability conditions for the non-Fredholm elliptic operators in unbounded domains and discuss how the introduction of the transport term influences the regularity of the solutions.

https://gatech.zoom.us/j/94295986362?pwd=8euEJ3ojkWl5c3Y3hLyXTiKBts3Rrq.1