Events for 04/05/2024 from all calendars
Mathematical Physics and Harmonic Analysis Seminar
Time: 1:50PM - 2:50PM
Location: BLOC 302
Speaker: Theo McKenzie, Stanford
Title: Quantum Ergodicity for Periodic Graphs
Abstract: Quantum ergodicity (QE) is a notion of eigenfunction delocalization, that large Laplacian eigenfunction entries are “well spread” throughout a manifold or graph. Such a property is true of chaotic manifolds and graphs, such as random regular graphs and Riemannian manifolds with ergodic geodesic flow. Focusing on graphs, outside of very specific examples, QE was previously only known to hold for families of graphs with a tree local limit. In this talk we show how QE is in fact satisfied for many families of operators on periodic graphs, including Schrodinger operators with periodic potential on the discrete torus and on the honeycomb lattice.
In order to do this, we use new ideas coming from analyzing Bloch varieties and some methods coming from proofs in the continuous setting.
Based on joint work with Mostafa Sabri.
Noncommutative Geometry Seminar
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: BLOC 628
Speaker: Ningfeng Wang, Tsinghua University
Title: 3d connections in alterfold TQFT and embedding theorems
Abstract: We give a 3d topological representation of flat connections within 3-alterfold TQFT. We give a quick proof of the embedding theorem saying that a multi-fusion category as a planar algebra can be canonically embedded into its graph planar algebra. Moreover, the image is the flat part of the connection. It generalizes the corresponding results for subfactors to any field. Furthermore, we developed an embedding theorem for ground states in the configuration spaces of the Levin-Wen model on a surface with/without boundary. This is joint work with Zhengwei Liu.
Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar
Time: 3:00PM - 3:50PM
Location: BLOC 302
Speaker: Chun-Hung Liu, TAMU
Title: Asymptotically optimal proper conflict-free coloring of bounded maximum degree graphs
Abstract: Every graph of maximum degree d has a coloring with d+1 colors such that no two adjacent vertices receive the same color. Caro, Petrusevski, Skrekovski conjectured that if d >2, then one can always choose such a proper (d+1)-coloring such that for every non-isolated vertex, some color appears on its neighborhood exactly once. We prove that this conjecture holds asymptotically: every graph of maximum degree d has a proper coloring with (1+o(1))d colors such that for every non-isolated vertex, some color appears on its neighborhood exactly once. Joint work with Bruce Reed.
Maxson Lecture Series
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: BLOC 117
Speaker: David Eisenbud, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Infinite Resolutions II: The biggest resolutions.
Geometry Seminar
Time: 6:00PM - 7:00PM
Location: TBA
Title: Texas Algebraic Geometry Symposium (TAGS)
Abstract: see https://franksottile.github.io/conferences/TAGS24/index.html