Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Let p be a prime, let C/F_p be an absolutely irreducible curve inside the affine plane. Identify the plane with D=[0,p-1]^2. In this talk, we consider the problem of how often a box B in D will contain the expected number of points. In particular, we give a lower bound on the volume of B that guarantees almost all translations of B contain the expected number of points. This shows that the Weil estimate holds in smaller regions in an "almost all" sense. This is joint work with Alexandru Zaharescu.

Recall that the notion of generalized function is introduced for the functions that are not defined point-wise, and is given as a linearfunctional over test functions. The same idea applies to random fields.In this talk, we study the long term asymptotics for the quenchedexponential moment of V(B(s)) where B(s) is d-dimensional Brownian motion,V(.) is a generalized Gaussian field. We will discuss the solution to anopen problem posed by Carmona and Molchanov with an answer different fromwhat was conjectured; the quenched laws for Brownian motions inNewtonian-type potentials, and in the potentials driven by white noise orby fractional white noise.

Many fundamental theorems in extremal graph theory can be expressed as linear inequalities between homomorphism densities. Lovasz and, in a slightly different formulation, Razborov asked whether it is true that every such inequality follows from a finite number of applications of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. In this talk we will show that the answer to this question is negative. Further, we will show that the problem of determining the validity of a linear inequality between homomorphism densities is undecidable. Hence such inequalities are inherently difficult in their full generality. These results are joint work with Hamed Hatami. On the other hand, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality (a.k.a. the semidefinite method) represents a powerful tool for obtaining _particular_ results in asymptotic extremal graph theory. Razborov's flag algebras provide a formalization of this method and have been used in over twenty papers in the last four years. We will describe an application of flag algebras to Turan’s brickyard problem: the problem of determining the crossing number of the complete bipartite graph K_{m,n}. This result is based joint work with Yori Zwols.