Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

An elliptic curve over the integer ring of a p-adic field whose special fiber is ordinary has a canonical line contained in its p-torsion. This fact has many arithmetic applications: for instance, it shows that there is a canonical partially-defined section of the natural map of modular curves X_0(Np) -> X_0(N). Lubin was the first to notice that elliptic curves with "not too supersingular" reduction also contain a canonical order-p subgroup. I'll begin the talk by giving an overview of Lubin and Katz's theory of the canonical subgroup of an elliptic curve. I'll then explain one approach to defining the canonical subgroup of any abelian variety (even any p-divisible group), and state a very general existence result. If there is time I'll indicate the role tropical geometry plays in its proof.

The property that a graph has an embedding in projective plane is closed under taking minors. So by the well known theorem of Robertson and Seymour, there exists a finite list of minor-minimal graphs, call it L, such that a given graph G is projective planar if and only if G does not contain any graph isomorphic to a member of L as a minor. Glover, Huneke and Wang found 35 graphs in L, and Archdeacon proved that those are all the members of L. In this talk we show a new strategy for finding the list L. Our approach is based on conditioning on the connectivity of a member of L. Assume G is a member of L. If G is not 3-connected then the structure of G is well understood. In the case that G is 3-connected, the problem breaks down into two main cases, either G has an internal separation of order three or G is internally 4-connected . In this talk we find the set of all 3-connected minor minimal non-projective planar graphs with an internal 3-separation. This is joint work with Luke Postle and Robin Thomas.

The motivation is to compute the spectral properties of the Schrodinger operator describing an electron in a quasicrystal. The talk will focus on the case of the Fibonacci sequence (one dimension), to illustrate the method. Then the Wannier transform will be defined. It will be shown that the Hamiltonian can be seen as a direct integral over operators with discrete spectra, in a way similar to the construction of band spectra for crystal. A discussion of the differences with crystal will conclude this talk.This is joint work with Giuseppe De Nittis and Vida Milani

This talk is an introduction to using variational approaches for image reconstruction and segmentation. This talk will start with Total Variation minimization (TV) model and discuss Mumford-Shah and Chan-Vese model for image segmentation. I will mainly focus on multiphase segmentation and its extensions.