Abstracts

Week of September 6, 2026

September 10, 2026
Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry Seminar TEST 10:15am -
TEST

TEST

TEST 10:30am -
Social events Orientation Event 3:00pm -
8th floor lounge

Welcome to Yale Mathematics! 

Come meet the new staff, faculty, and students.

Food and beverage will be provided. 

Analysis The 2D Steklov Spectrum 5:00pm -
KT 207

The Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map is a nonlocal operator that naturally arises in the study of electrostatics and water waves. Heuristically, it maps the voltage measured at the surface of a conductor to the normal current density through the surface. In this talk, we discuss the sharp two-term spectral asymptotics for the DtN map on 2D curvilinear polygons, determined by the corner angles, edge lengths, and curvature near the corners. This answers three open questions posed in the works of Colbois, Girouard, Gordon, Levitin, Parnovski, Polterovich, Sher, and others. These results are based on a new scattering theory for the DtN map on asymptotically conic domains with Lipschitz boundaries in any dimension. This is joint work with Jeffrey Galkowski and Marcello Malagutti.

September 11, 2026
Friday Morning Seminar Friday Morning Seminar 10:00am to 11:00am -
Kline Tower 801
Geometric Analysis Learning Seminar Pre-Talk 4:00pm -
8L Lounge

This pre-talk will introduce some basic ideas for studying complete noncompact three-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature using harmonic functions. We will focus on the geometry of harmonic level sets and explain how the Bochner formula, the Gauss equation, Gauss–Bonnet, and the coarea formula work together to produce useful geometric estimates.