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2013/04/18

Geometry Colloquium

10:00-11:30   Room #122 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Yasuyuki Nagatomo (Meiji University)
Harmonic maps into Grassmannian manifolds (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
A harmonic map from a Riemannian manifold into a Grassmannian manifold is characterized by a vector bundle, a space of sections of the bundle and the Laplace operator. This characterization can be considered as a generalization of Theorem of Takahashi on minimal immersions into a sphere (J.Math.Soc.Japan 18 (1966)) and implies the well-known fact that the Kodaira embedding is a harmonic map.

We apply the main result to generalize a Theorem of do Carmo and Wallach (Ann.of Math. 93 (1971)) and describe a moduli space of harmonic maps with constant energy densities and some properties about pull-back bundles and connections from a Riemannian homogeneous space into a Grassmannian. We give some applications including a rigidity of minimal immersions from the complex projective line to complex projective spaces (S.Bando and Y.Ohnita, J. Math. Soc. Japan 39 (1987)).

The ADHM-construction of instantons gives a family of maps into Grassmannians via monad theory on the twistor space. These maps are, in general, not harmonic maps, but are similar to maps obtained in our generalized do Carmo-Wallach theorem. We compare these two constructions of moduli spaces.

2013/04/17

Operator Algebra Seminars

16:30-18:00   Room #118 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Tamar Friedmann (Univ. Rochester)
Singularities, algebras, and the string landscape (ENGLISH)

2013/04/16

Lie Groups and Representation Theory

16:30-18:30   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Michael Pevzner (Reims University) 16:30-17:30
Non-standard models for small representations of GL(n,R) (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
We shall present new models for some parabolically induced
unitary representations of the real general linear group which involve Weyl symbolic calculus and furnish very efficient tools in studying branching laws for such representations.
Pierre Clare (Penn. State University, USA) 17:30-18:30
Degenerate principal series of symplectic groups (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
We will discuss properties of representations of symplectic groups induced from maximal parabolic subgroups of Heisenberg type, including K-types formulas, expressions of intertwining operators and the study of their spectrum.

2013/04/15

Lectures

15:00-16:30   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Janna Lierl (University of Bonn)
Two-sided bounds for the Dirichlet heat kernel on inner uniform domains (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
I will present sharp two-sided bounds for the heat kernel in domains with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The domain is assumed to satisfy an inner uniformity condition. This includes any convex domain, the complement of any convex domain in Euclidean space, and the interior of the Koch snowflake.
The heat kernel estimates hold in the abstract setting of metric measure spaces equipped with a (possibly non-symmetric) Dirichlet form. The underlying space is assumed to satisfy a Poincare inequality and volume doubling.
The results apply, for example, to the Dirichlet heat kernel associated with a divergence form operator with bounded measurable coefficients and symmetric, uniformly elliptic second order part.
This is joint work with Laurent Saloff-Coste.

Lectures

16:45-18:15   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Amir Dembo (Stanford University)
Persistence Probabilities (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
Persistence probabilities concern how likely it is that a stochastic process has a long excursion above fixed level and of what are the relevant scenarios for this behavior. Power law decay is expected in many cases of physical significance and the issue is to determine its power exponent parameter. I will survey recent progress in this direction (jointly with Jian Ding, Fuchang Gao, and Sumit Mukherjee), dealing with random algebraic polynomials of independent coefficients, iterated partial sums and other auto-regressive sequences, and with the solution to heat equation initiated by white noise.

Seminar on Geometric Complex Analysis

10:30-12:00   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Nikolay Shcherbina (University of Wuppertal)
On defining functions for unbounded pseudoconvex domains (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
We show that every strictly pseudoconvex domain $\Omega$ with smooth boundary in a complex manifold $M$ admits a global defining function, i.e. a smooth plurisubharmonic function $\varphi \colon U \to \mathbf{R}$ defined on an open neighbourhood $U \subset M$ of $\Omega$ such that $\Omega =\{ \varphi < 0 \}$, $d\varphi \not= 0$ on $b\Omega$ and $\varphi$ is strictly plurisubharmonic near $b\Omega$. We then introduce the notion of the kernel $K(\Omega)$ of an arbitrary domain $\Omega \subset M$ as the set of all points where every smooth and bounded from above plurisubharmonic function on $\Omega$ fails to be strictly plurisubharmonic. If $\Omega$ is not relatively compact in $M$, then in general $K(\Omega)$ is nonempty, even in the case when $M$ is Stein. It is shown that every strictly pseudoconvex domain $\Omega \subset M$ with smooth boundary admits a global defining function that is strictly plurisubharmonic precisely in the complement of $K(\Omega)$. We then investigate properties of the kernel. Among other results we prove 1-pseudoconcavity of the kernel, we show that in general the kernel does not possess any analytic structure, and we investigate Liouville type properties of the kernel.

2013/04/11

Geometry Colloquium

10:00-11:30   Room #122 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Jeff Viaclovsky (University of Wisconsin)
Critical metrics on connected sums of Einstein four-manifolds (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
I will discuss a gluing procedure designed to obtain critical metrics of quadratic Riemannian functionals on connected sums of certain Einstein four-manifolds. Start with two Einstein four-manifolds of positive scalar curvature which are "rigid". Using the Green's function for the conformal Laplacian, convert one of these into an asymptotically flat (AF) scalar-flat metric. A "naive" approximate critical metric is obtained by identifying the boundary of a large ball in the AF metric with the boundary of a small ball in the other compact Einstein metric, using cutoff functions to glue together the AF metric with a suitably scaled compact metric in order to obtain a smooth metric on the connected sum. It turns out that this naive approximate metric is too rough, and must be refined in order to compute the leading term of the Kuranishi map. The main application is an existence result using two well-known Einstein manifolds as building blocks: the Fubini-Study metric on $¥mathbb{CP}^2$ and the product metric on $S^2 ¥times S^2$. Using these factors in various gluing configurations, a zero of the Kuranishi map is then found for a specific quadratic Riemannian functional on certain connected sums. The exact functional depends on the geometry of the factors, and also on the mass of the AF metric. Using certain quotients of $S^2 ¥times S^2$ as one of the gluing factors, several non-simply connected examples are also obtained. This is joint work with Matt Gursky.

2013/04/10

Operator Algebra Seminars

16:30-18:00   Room #118 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Takuya Takeishi (Univ. Tokyo)
On nuclearity of $C^*$-algebras associated with Fell bundles over \\'etale groupoids (ENGLISH)

Number Theory Seminar

17:30-18:30   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Deepam Patel (University of Amsterdam)
Motivic structure on higher homotopy of non-nilpotent spaces (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
In his fundamental paper on the projective line minus three points, Deligne constructed certain extensions of mixed Tate motives arising from the fundamental group of the projective line minus three points. Since then, motivic structures on homotopy groups have been studied by many authors. In this talk, we will construct a motivic structure on the (nilpotent completion of) n-th homotopy group of P^{n} minus n+2 hyperplanes in general position.

2013/04/09

Tuesday Seminar on Topology

16:30-18:00   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Hiroyuki Fuji (The University of Tokyo)
Colored HOMFLY Homology and Super-A-polynomial (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
This talk is based on works in collaboration with S. Gukov, M. Stosic,
and P. Sulkowski. We study the colored HOMFLY homology for knots and
its asymptotic behavior. In recent years, the categorification of the
colored HOMFLY polynomial is proposed in term of homological
discussions via spectral sequence and physical discussions via refined
topological string, and these proposals give the same answer
miraculously. In this talk, we consider the asymptotic behavior of the
colored HOMFLY homology \\`a la the generalized volume conjecture, and
discuss the quantum structure of the colored HOMFLY homology for the
complete symmetric representations via the generalized A-polynomial
which we call “super-A-polynomial”.

Lie Groups and Representation Theory

16:30-18:00   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Atsumu Sasaki (Tokai University)
A characterization of non-tube type Hermitian symmetric spaces by visible actions
(JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
We consider a non-symmetric complex Stein manifold D
which is realized as a line bundle over the complexification of a non-compact irreducible Hermitian symmetric space G/K.

In this talk, we will explain that the compact group action on D is strongly visible in the sense of Toshiyuki Kobayashi if and only if G/K is of non-tube type.
In particular, we focus on our construction of slice which meets every orbit in D from the viewpoint of group theory, namely,
we find an A-part of a generalized Cartan decomposition for homogeneous space D.

We note that our choice of A-part is an abelian.

2013/04/08

Seminar on Geometric Complex Analysis

10:30-12:00   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Akito Futaki (University of Tokyo)
K\\"ahler-Einstein metrics and K stability (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
I will describe an outline of the proof of the equivalence between the existence of K\\"ahler-Einstein metrics and K-stablity after Chen-Donaldson-Sun and Tian.

2013/04/02

Lie Groups and Representation Theory

16:30-18:00   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Yoshiki Oshima (Kavli IPMU, the University of Tokyo)
Discrete branching laws of Zuckerman's derived functor modules (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
We consider the restriction of Zuckerman's derived functor modules with respect to symmetric pairs of real reductive groups. When they are discretely decomposable, explicit formulas for the branching laws are obtained by using a realization as D-module on the flag variety and the generalized BGG resolution. In this talk we would like to illustrate how to derive the formulas with a few examples.

2013/03/30

Infinite Analysis Seminar Tokyo

13:30-15:30   Room #002 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Simon Wood (Kavli IPMU)
On the extended algebra of type sl_2 at positive rational level (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
I will be presenting my recent work with Akihiro Tsuchiya
(arXiv:1302.6435).
I will explain how to construct a certain VOA called the "extended
algebra of type sl_2 at positive rational level"
as a subVOA of a lattice VOA, by means of screening operators. I will
then show that this VOA carries a kind of exterior sl_2 action and then
show how one can compute the structure Zhu's algebra and the Poisson
algebra as well as classify all simple modules by using the screening
operators and the sl_2 action. Important concepts such as screening
operators or Zhu's algebra and the Poisson algebra of a VOA will be
reviewed in the talk.

2013/03/19

Tuesday Seminar on Topology

16:30-18:00   Room #002 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Keiko Kawamuro (University of Iowa)
Open book foliation and application to contact topology (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
Open book foliation is a generalization of Birman and Menasco's braid foliation. Any 3-manifold admits open book decompositions. Open book foliation is a singular foliation on an embedded surface, and is define by the intersection of a surface and the pages of the open book decomposition. By Giroux's identification of open books and contact structures one can use open book foliation method to study contact structures. In this talk I define the open book foliation and show some applications to contact topology. This is joint work with Tetsuya Ito (University of British Columbia).

2013/03/18

Operator Algebra Seminars

16:00-17:30   Room #118 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Hiroshi Ando (IHES)
Ultraproducts of von Neumann algebras (JAPANESE)

Colloquium

15:00-17:30   Room #050 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
NOGUCHI, Junjiro (University of Tokyo) 15:00-16:00
Value distribution theory and analytic function theory in several variables (JAPANESE)
OSHIMA, Toshio (University of Tokyo) 16:30-17:30
My fifty years of differential equations (JAPANESE)

2013/03/15

Operator Algebra Seminars

15:45-18:00   Room #118 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Lucio Cirio (Univ. M\"unster) 15:45-16:45
Infinitesimal 2-Yang-Baxter operators from a categorification
of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov connection (ENGLISH)
Sutanu Roy (Univ. G\"ottingen) 17:00-18:00
Twisted tensor product of $C^*$-algebras (ENGLISH)

Numerical Analysis Seminar

10:00-12:15   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Irene Vignon-Clementel (INRIA Paris Rocquencourt )
Complex flow at the boundaries of branched models: numerical aspects (ENGLISH)
[ Reference URL ]
http://www.infsup.jp/utnas/

Operator Algebra Seminars

14:30-15:30   Room #118 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Stefano Rossi (Univ. Roma II)
The connected component of a compact quantum group (ENGLISH)

Operator Algebra Seminars

13:15-14:15   Room #118 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Jean Roydor (Univ. Bordeaux)
Two Amir-Cambern type theorems for $C^*$-algebras (ENGLISH)

PDE Real Analysis Seminar

10:30-11:30   Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Caterina Zeppieri (Universität Münster)
Geometric rigidity for incompatible fields and an application to strain-gradient plasticity (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
Motivated by the study of nonlinear plane elasticity in presence of edge dislocations, in this talk we show that in dimension two the Friesecke, James, and Müller Rigidity Estimate holds true also for matrix-fields with nonzero curl, modulo an error depending on the total mass of the curl.
The above generalised rigidity is then used to derive a strain-gradient model for plasticity from semi-discrete nonlinear dislocation energies by Gamma-convergence.
The above results are obtained in collaboration with S. Müller (University of Bonn, Germany) and L. Scardia (University of Glasgow, UK).

2013/03/11

Operator Algebra Seminars

09:45-12:00   Room #123 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Tristan Bice (York Univ.) 09:45-10:45
Traces and Ultrapowers (ENGLISH)
David Penneys (Univ. Toronto) 11:00-12:00
Constructing subfactors with jellyfish (ENGLISH)

Operator Algebra Seminars

13:30-18:15   Room #123 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Danny Hey (Univ. Toronto) 13:30-14:30
Classification and the Toms-Winter Conjecture (ENGLISH)
Stephen Curran (UCLA) 14:45-15:45
Free probability and planar algebras (ENGLISH)
Rasmus Bentmann (Univ. Copenhagen) 16:00-17:00
Kirchberg $X$-algebras with real rank zero and intermediate cancellation (ENGLISH)
Luis Santiago-Moreno (Univ. Oregon) 17:15-18:15
Classifying $C^*$-algebras up to W-stability (ENGLISH)

GCOE Seminars

14:45-15:45   Room #123 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Stephen Curran (UCLA)
Free probability and planar algebras (ENGLISH)
[ Reference URL ]
https://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yasuyuki/mini2013-4.htm

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