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Week of January 1, 2023

January 18, 2023
Colloquium [2]	Some advances in the geometric Langlands program	Sam Raskin - UT Austin	4:15pm - LOM 214

January 23, 2023
Colloquium [2]	Projection theorems and Fourier restriction theory	Hong Wang - UCLA	4:00pm - LOM 206

January 25, 2023
Colloquium [2]	Growth of unimodular random graphs	Mikolaj Fraczyk - University of Chicago	4:15pm - LOM 214

January 26, 2023
Group Actions, Geometry and Dynamics [3]	Co-spectral radii and subgroup intersections,	Mikolaj Fraczyk - University of Chicago	4:00pm -
Analysis [4]	Exploring the power of nonlinearity in complex function theory (in 1 d and higher dimensions)	Ronald Coifman - Yale University	4:15pm -

January 27, 2023
Friday Morning Seminar [5]	Friday Morning Seminar		9:30am - LOM 215
Graduate Student Seminar [6]	Symplectic representations of mapping class groups restricted on (orientable) pseudo-Anosovs	Dongryul Kim - Yale	12:00pm -
Geometric Analysis and Application [7]	Hawking mass monotonicity for initial data sets	Sven Hirsch - Duke University	2:00pm - LOM 215

January 30, 2023
Group Actions, Geometry and Dynamics [3]	Rigidity of conformal measure preserving representations via self-joinings	Hee Oh - Yale	4:00pm - LOM 206
Geometry, Symmetry and Physics [8]	Central charges in Gauged Linear Sigma Models	Konstatin Aleshkin - Columbia University	4:30pm - LOM 214

Abstracts

Week of January 1, 2023

January 18, 2023
Colloquium [2]	Some advances in the geometric Langlands program	4:15pm - LOM 214	Classically, mathematicians observed parallels between algebraic number theory and the theory of Riemann surfaces. The geometric Langlands program grew from these analogies, seeking to find geometric avatars of arithmetic phenomena. I will try to explain some of these classical ideas underpinning geometric Langlands, and then describe outcomes of some projects of mine from recent years that speak to them.

January 23, 2023
Colloquium [2]	Projection theorems and Fourier restriction theory	4:00pm - LOM 206	Given a fractal set E on the plane and a set F of directions, can we find one direction L in F such that the orthogonal projection of E onto L is large? Suppose f is a function whose Fourier transform is supported on a curved manifold (for instance, a sphere), what can we say about this function? It turns out that these two questions are related. We will survey some classical and recent projection theorems and discuss their relation to Fourier restriction theory.

January 25, 2023
Colloquium [2]	Growth of unimodular random graphs	4:15pm - LOM 214	Abstract: Unimodular random graphs are probabilistic objects arising, for example, as the limits of sequences of finite graphs or as the connected components of a percolation on a transitive graph. In general, a unimodular random graph might fail to have an exponential growth rate but for unimodular random trees there is a curious dichotomy where the growth can be shown to exist once the “upper growth” passes certain threshold. Based on a joint work with Miklos Abert and Ben Hayes.

January 26, 2023
Group Actions, Geometry and Dynamics [3]	Co-spectral radii and subgroup intersections,	4:00pm -	A subgroup H of a countable group G is co-amenable if the left regular representation on the coset space G/H admits almost invariant vectors. Co-amenablility is a notion of largeness of a subgroup, but it is not the best behaved one. For example, the intersections of co-amenable subgroups can fail to be co-amenable. I will talk about a joint work with Wouter van Limbeek in which we prove that the class of co-amenable invariant random subgroups is closed under taking finite intersection. This follows from more general results on the co-spectral radii of intersections of invariant random subgroups.
Analysis [4]	Exploring the power of nonlinearity in complex function theory (in 1 d and higher dimensions)	4:15pm -	We describe recent remarkable nonlinear analytic approximation tools in the classical setting of Hardy spaces in the upper half plane and show how to transfer them to the higher dimensional real setting of harmonic functions in upper half spaces. It is known that all harmonic functions in higher dimensions are combinations of holomorphic functions on 2 dimensional planes, extended as, constant in normal directions. We derive representation theorems, with corresponding isometries, opening the door for applications in higher dimensions, to the processing of highly oscillatory multidimensional signals. This is joint work with Guido Weiss Stefan Steinerberger , Jacques Peyriere , Hau -tieng Wu and many others

January 27, 2023
Friday Morning Seminar [5]	Friday Morning Seminar	9:30am - LOM 215	A relaxed-pace seminar on impromptu subjects related to the interests of the audience. Everyone is welcome. The subjects are geometry, probability, combinatorics, dynamics, and more!
Graduate Student Seminar [6]	Symplectic representations of mapping class groups restricted on (orientable) pseudo-Anosovs	12:00pm -	It is an open question whether mapping class groups of a closed orientable surface is linear. One natural representation of a mapping class group into a linear group is its symplectic representation, which is induced from the action of the mapping class group on the first homology of the surface. It is well-known that the symplectic representation is surjective onto the integral lattice. It is a natural question that what we can observe when we restrict the symplectic representation on the set of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes. Thurston proved that there are plenty of pseudo-Anosovs in the kernel of the symplectic representation, employing his construction of pseudo-Anosovs from filling multicurves. In this talk, we show that the surjectivity still holds after restricting the symplectic representation on the set of pseudo-Anosovs. On the other hand, we also show that the surjectivity does not hold on the set of pseudo-Anosovs with orientable invariant measured foliations. This is the joint work with Hyungryul Baik and Inhyeok Choi, answering the question of Ursula Hamenstädt.
Geometric Analysis and Application [7]	Hawking mass monotonicity for initial data sets	2:00pm - LOM 215	An interesting feature of General Relativity is the presence of singularities which can happen in even the simplest examples such as the Schwarzschild spacetime. However, in this case the singularity is cloaked behind the event horizon of the black hole which has been conjectured to be generically the case. To analyze this so-called Cosmic Censorship Conjecture Penrose proposed in 1973 a test which involves Hawking’s area theorem, the final state conjecture and a geometric inequality on initial data sets (M,g,k). For k=0 this Penrose inequality has been proven by Huisken-Ilmanen and by Bray using different methods, but in general the question is wide open. Huisken-Ilmanen’s proof relies on the Hawking mass monotonicity formula under inverse mean curvature flow (IMCF), and the purpose of this talk is to generalize the Hawking mass monotonicity formula to initial data sets. For this purpose, we start with recalling spacetime harmonic functions and their applications which have been introduced together with Demetre Kazaras and Marcus Khuri in the context of the spacetime positive mass theorem.

January 30, 2023
Group Actions, Geometry and Dynamics [3]	Rigidity of conformal measure preserving representations via self-joinings	4:00pm - LOM 206	I will discuss a rigidity problem for representations of discrete Zariski dense subrgoups, and a surprising role played by higher rank conformal measures of the associated self-joining group. Our approach recovers rigidity theorems of Sullivan, Tukia and Yue, as well as has found a new application to Anosv representations, in particular to Hitchin representations. (Based on joint work with Dongryul Kim)
Geometry, Symmetry and Physics [8]	Central charges in Gauged Linear Sigma Models	4:30pm - LOM 214	Gauged Linear Sigma Models (GLSM) are curve-counting theories of a critical locus of a function in a GIT quotient variety. The central part is played by a special matrix factorization on the moduli space of GLSM maps. GLSM invariants satisfy many remarkable properties, many of which are captured by the central charges, that are particular generating series of GLSM invariants that depend on matrix factorizations. In the talk, I will explain what these objects are and how to use central charges to prove symmetry and wall-crossing results for GLSM.

Links
[1] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/list/calendar/grid/week/2023-W02 [2] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/seminars/colloquium [3] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/seminars/group-actions-geometry-and-dynamics [4] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/seminars/analysis [5] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/seminars/friday-morning-seminar [6] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/seminars/graduate-student-seminar [7] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/seminars/geometric-analysis-and-application [8] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/seminars/geometry-symmetry-and-physics [9] https://calendar.math.yale.edu/list/calendar/grid/week/abstract/2023-W02