Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Computing, understanding the behavior of concordance invariants obtained from knot Floer homology theories is quite central to the study of the concordance group and low-dimensional topology in general. In this talk, I will describe the method that allows us to compute the concordance invariant epsilon using combinatorial knot Floer homology and talk about some computational results. This is a joint work with S. Dey.

A multi-electrode array-based application for the long-term recording of action potentials from electrogenic cells makes possible exciting cardiac electrophysiology studies in health and disease. With hundreds of simultaneous electrode recordings being acquired over a period of days, the main challenge becomes achieving reliable signal identification and quantification. We set out to develop an algorithm capable of automatically extracting regions of high-quality action potentials from terabyte size experimental results and to map the trains of action potentials into a low-dimensional feature space for analysis. Our automatic segmentation algorithm finds regions of acceptable action potentials in large data sets of electrophysiological readings. We use spectral methods and support vector machines to classify our readings and to extract relevant features. We show that action potentials from the same cell site can be recorded over days without detrimental effects to the cell membrane. The variability between measurements 24 h apart is comparable to the natural variability of the features at a single time point. Our work contributes towards a non-invasive approach for cardiomyocyte functional maturation, as well as developmental, pathological, and pharmacological studies.

This is joint work with Dr. Viviana Zlochiver (Advocate Aurora Research Institute) and John Jurkiewicz (graduate student at UWM).

Meeting room: https://bluejeans.com/819527897/5512

If we can write a (homogeneous) polynomial as a sum of squares(SOS), the polynomial is guaranteed to be a non-negative polynomial. However, every non-negative forms does not have to be written as sums of squares in general. This implies that set of sums of square is strictly contained in set of non-negative forms in general. We want to discuss about one way to describe the gaps between the two sets. Since the sets have cone structures, we can consider dual cones of each cones. In particular, the description of dual cone of non-negative polynomials is simple: convex hull of point evaluations. Therefore, we are interested in positive semi-definite quadratic forms that is not point evaluations. We call "Hankel index" the minimal rank of quadratic form (on extreme ray of the dual cone of SOS) which is not a point evaluation. In this talk, we introduce the Hankel index of variety and will discuss about a criterion to obtain the Hankel index of projected rational curves.

We give a purely contact and symplectic geometric characterization of Anosov flows in dimension 3 and set up a framework to use tools from contact and symplectic geometry and topology in the study of questions about Anosov dynamics. If time permits, we will discuss some uniqueness results for the underlying (bi-) contact structure for an Anosov flow, and/or a characterization of Anosovity based on Reeb flows.