From Optics to the Deift Conjecture

Series
Job Candidate Talk
Time
Monday, February 17, 2025 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Rowan Killip – UCLA – killip@math.ucla.eduhttps://www.math.ucla.edu/~killip/
Organizer
Gong Chen, Ronghua Pan, Chongchun Zeng

After providing a mathematical background for some curious optical experiments in the 19th century, I will then describe how these ideas inform our understanding of the Deift conjecture for the Korteweg--de Vries equation. Specifically, in joint work with Chapouto and Visan, we showed that the evolution of almost-periodic initial data need not remain almost periodic.