Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Recent work by J. and N. Giansiracusa, myself, and O. Lorscheid suggests that the tropical geometry of a toric variety $X$, or more generally of a logarithmic scheme $X$, can be formalized as a "Berkovich analytification" of a scheme over the field $\mathbb{F}_1$ with one element that is canonically associated to $X$.The goal of this talk is to introduce the theory of Artin fans, originally due to D. Abramovich and J. Wise, which can be used to lift rather unwieldy $\mathbb{F}_1$-geometric objects to the more familiar realm of algebraic stacks. Artin fans are \'etale locally isomorphic to quotient stacks of toric varieties by their big tori and their glueing data has a completely combinatorial description in terms of Kato fans.I am going to explain how to use the ideas surrounding the notion of Artin fans to study tropicalization maps associated to toric varieties and logarithmic schemes. Surprisingly these techniques allow us to give a reinterpretation of Tevelev's theory of tropical compactifications that can be generalized to compactifications of subvarieties in logarithmically smooth compactifcations of smooth varieties. For example, we can introduce definitions of tropical pairs and schoen varieties in terms of Artin fans that are equivalent to Tevelev's notions.

This is joint work with Rob Kirby. Trisections are to 4-manifolds as Heegaard splittings are to 3-manifolds; a Heegaard splitting splits a 3-manifolds into 2 pieces each of which looks like a regular neighborhood of a bouquet of circles in R^3 (a handlebody), while a trisection splits a 4-manifold into 3 pieces of each of which looks like a regular neighborhood of a bouquet of circles in R^4. All closed, oriented 4-manifolds (resp. 3-manifolds) have trisections (resp. Heegaard splittings), and for a fixed manifold these are unique up to a natural stabilization operation. The striking parallels between the two dimensions suggest a plethora of interesting open questions, and I hope to present as many of these as I can.

The talk will survey the main definitions and properties of patchy vector fields and patchy feedbacks, with applications to asymptotic feedback stabilization and nearly optimal feedback control design. Stability properties for discontinuous ODEs and robustness of patchy feedbacks will also be discussed.

I propose a generalization of Hopf fibrations to quotient the streamwise translation symmetry of water waves and turbulent pipe flows viewed as dynamical systems. In particular, I exploit the geometric structure of the associated high dimensional state space, which is that of a principal fiber bundle. Symmetry reduction analysis of experimental data reveals that the speeds of large oceanic crests and turbulent bursts are associated with the dynamical and geometric phases of the corresponding orbits in the fiber bundle. In particular, in the symmetry-reduced frame I unveil a pattern-changing dynamics of the fluid structures, which explains the observed speed u ≈ Ud+Ug of intense extreme events in terms of the geometric phase velocity Ug and the dynamical phase velocity Ud associated with the orbits in the bundle. In particular, for oceanic waves Ug/Ud~-0.2 and for turbulent bursts Ug/Ud~0.43 at Reynolds number Re=3200.