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Seminar information archive ~04/06Today's seminar 04/07 | Future seminars 04/08~

2026/04/08

Tokyo-Nagoya Algebra Seminar

13:00-14:30   Online
Ryu Tomonaga (The University of Tokyo)
d-無限表現型代数と射影多様体の導来同値について (Japanese)
[ Reference URL ]
https://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~aaron.chan/TNAseminar.html

2026/04/10

Geometric Analysis Seminar

16:00-17:00   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Shinichiroh Matsuo (Nagoya University)
Discretization of Dirac operators and lattice gauge theory (日本語)
[ Abstract ]
Our ultimate goal is to discretize Seiberg-Witten theory.
Considering PL = DIFF in dimension four, we would like to construct something like PL Seiberg-Witten theory.
As a first step towards this goal, we study the discretization of the analytic index of Dirac operators.
However, the analytic index of Fredholm operators is an essentially infinite-dimensional phenomenon, while the index theory of finite-dimensional self-adjoint operators is trivial.
Thus, a naive discretization of Dirac operators does not work.
In this talk, I will explain how the “Wilson-Dirac operator” from lattice gauge theory provides a correct discretization, at least from the viewpoint of the analytic index.
This talk is based on a joint work with Shoto Aoki, Hidenori Fukaya, Mikio Furuta, Tetsuya Oonogi, and Satoshi Yamaguchi.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12576
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17708
[ Reference URL ]
https://sites.google.com/g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/geometricanalysisseminar/

2026/04/13

Tokyo Probability Seminar

16:00-17:30   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
We are having teatime from 15:15 in the common room on the second floor. Please join us.
Daisuke Shiraishi (Kyoto University)
4次元単純ランダムウォークの交叉と長距離パーコレーションの関係
[ Abstract ]
よく知られているように、4次元ブラウン運動の軌跡は単純曲線になる。一方で4次元単純ランダムウォークの軌跡は、ループ除去ランダムウォークの長さに非自明な対数項が現れる程度のループを持つ。本講演では、4次元単純ランダムウォークの軌跡の交叉とある長距離パーコレーションモデルとの関係性について解説する。

Seminar on Geometric Complex Analysis

10:30-12:00   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Taito Shimoji (Univ. of Osaka)
On the nilpotent quasi-projective groups (Japanese)
[ Abstract ]
The quasi-projective groups are the fundamental groups of smooth quasi-projective complex varieties. Aguilar and Campana provided the problem about the torsion-free nilpotent quasi-projective groups. The problem asks whether such groups are 2-step nilpotent or abelian groups(arXiv:2301.11232,Question26). In this talk, I introduce some my result related to the torsion-free nilpotent quasi-projective groups and the above question. In particular, the latest result suggests the existence of torsion-free nilpotent quasi-projective groups with three or more steps.
[ Reference URL ]
https://forms.gle/8ERsVDLuKHwbVzm57

2026/04/14

Tuesday Seminar of Analysis

16:00-17:30   Room # 002 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Nicola Fusco (University of Naples Federico II)
Consistency for the surface diffusion flow in three dimensions (English)
[ Abstract ]
We will discuss the flat flow solution for the surface diffusion equation via a discrete minimizing movements scheme proposed in 1994 in a celebrated paper by J.W. Cahn and J.E. Taylor. We will show that in dimension three the scheme converges to the unique smooth solution of the equation, provided the initial set is sufficiently regular. Joint paper with Marco Cicalese, Vesa Julin and Andrea Kubin.

Tuesday Seminar on Topology

16:00-17:30   Room #hybrid/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Yukihiro Okamoto (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Non-contractible loops of Legendrian tori from families of knots (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
The unit cotangent bundle of the Euclidean space R3 has a canonical contact structure. In this talk, we discuss loops of Legendrian tori in this 5-dimensional contact manifold. In particular, we focus on loops arising as families of the unit conormal bundles of knots in R3, and I will explain a topological method to compute the monodromy on the Legendrian contact homology in degree 0 induced by those loops. As an application, we get examples of non-contractible loops of Legendrian tori which are contractible in the space of smoothly embedded tori. This is joint work with Marián Poppr.
[ Reference URL ]
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html

Operator Algebra Seminars

16:45-18:15   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Akihiko Arai (Chiba University)
On the isomorphism problem for ultraproducts of $C^*$-algebras in continuous model theory
[ Reference URL ]
https://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yasuyuki/tokyo-seminar.htm

2026/04/20

Seminar on Geometric Complex Analysis

10:30-12:00   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Yusaku Tiba (Ochanomizu Univ.)
(Japanese)
[ Reference URL ]
https://forms.gle/8ERsVDLuKHwbVzm57

2026/04/21

Tuesday Seminar on Topology

16:00-17:00   Online
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Masaki Taniguchi (Kyoto University)
Exotic diffeomorphisms on a contractible 4-manifold surviving two stabilization (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
Wall's stabilization principle suggests that exotic phenomena in dimension four in the orientable category disappear after taking connected sums with sufficiently many S2xS2. Since most known exotic pairs of closed 4-manifolds become diffeomorphic after one stabilization, a natural question was: is a single S2xS2 enough? Recently, Jianfeng Lin constructed an exotic diffeomorphism on a closed 4-manifold-a diffeomorphism topologically isotopic to the identity but not smoothly isotopic-that survives one stabilization. In this talk, we provide a relative exotic diffeomorphism on a compact contractible 4-manifold that survives two stabilizations. This gives the first exotic phenomenon in the orientable category that survives two stabilizations. This is joint work with Sungkyung Kang and Junghwan Park.
[ Reference URL ]
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html

Operator Algebra Seminars

16:45-18:15   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Ayoub Hafid (Univ. Tokyo)
Concepts of coarse geometry on quantum metric spaces
[ Reference URL ]
https://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yasuyuki/tokyo-seminar.htm

2026/04/22

Seminar on Mathematics for various disciplines

10:30-11:30   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Hidekazu Yoshioka (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Non-standard mathematical models for a deeper understanding of aquatic environments (日本語)

2026/04/24

Colloquium

15:30-16:30   Room #NISSAY Lecture Hall(大講義室) (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Yukako Kezuka (Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
A Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer dichotomy (日本語)
[ Abstract ]
The aim of this talk is to explore a possible weakening of the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, framed as a dichotomy, in which neither the equality of the analytic and Mordell–Weil ranks nor the finiteness of the Tate–Shafarevich group is assumed to hold individually, but rather that if one fails, then so does the other – and in a very specific way. We will explain our motivations coming from (1) the analogy with Iwasawa theory, (2) connections with known results onelliptic curves, and (3) comparison with the function field case.

This talk is based on joint work with Don Zagier (MPIM Bonn).

2026/04/27

Seminar on Geometric Complex Analysis

10:30-12:00   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Takashi Ono (RIMS)
 
[ Reference URL ]
https://forms.gle/8ERsVDLuKHwbVzm57

2026/04/28

Tuesday Seminar on Topology

16:00-17:30   Room #hybrid/056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Taketo Sano (RIKEN)
A y-ification of Khovanov homology (JAPANESE)
[ Abstract ]
In this talk, I will explain the main results of my recent paper (arXiv:2602.17435).

Khovanov homology is a categorification of the Jones polynomial, introduced by M. Khovanov. A persistent theme in the subject is that adding extra structures on Khovanov homology strengthens the invariant, and often detects phenomena invisible at the level of polynomials or bigraded vector spaces.

Motivated by the y-ification of HOMFLY--PT homology by Gorsky and Hogancamp, and the sl2-action constructed by Gorsky, Hogancamp and Mellit, we construct a y-ification of Khovanov homology and define an action of the element e in sl2 on these y-ifications. Our construction is compatible with the previous ones via Rasmussen's spectral sequence from HOMFLY--PT homology to Khovanov homology; yet our approach is more elementary and suited to diagrammatic and algorithmic computations. As an application, we show that the additional structure can distinguish knots with identical Khovanov homology and identical HOMFLY--PT homology, in particular the Conway knot and the Kinoshita--Terasaka knot.
[ Reference URL ]
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html

Operator Algebra Seminars

16:45-18:15   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Roozbeh Hazrat (Western Sydney University)
An attempt to classify combinatorial algebras
[ Reference URL ]
https://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yasuyuki/tokyo-seminar.htm

2026/05/11

Seminar on Geometric Complex Analysis

10:30-12:00   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Luc Pirio (CNRS)
(English)
[ Reference URL ]
https://forms.gle/8ERsVDLuKHwbVzm57

2026/05/12

Tuesday Seminar on Topology

16:00-17:00   Online
Pre-registration required. See our seminar webpage.
Sanghoon Kwak (Seoul National University)
Mapping class group of Infinite graph: 'Big' Out(Fn) (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
Algom-Kfir and Bestvina introduced the mapping class groups of locally finite, infinite graphs in 2021. Since Out(Fn) can be realized as the mapping group of a finite graph, their construction may be viewed as a "big" version of Out(Fn). In this talk, we survey the algebraic and coarse geometric properties of these groups and discuss a relationship with mapping class groups of infinite-type surfaces ("big mapping class groups"). This talk is based on joint work with Ryan Dickmann, George Domat, and Hannah Hoganson, in various collaborations.
[ Reference URL ]
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MSF/topology/TuesdaySeminar/index_e.html

Operator Algebra Seminars

16:45-18:15   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Camila Sehnem (RIMS, Kyoto Univ.)
Injective envelopes for partial $C^*$-dynamical systems
[ Reference URL ]
https://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yasuyuki/tokyo-seminar.htm

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

13:30-15:00   Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Shuji Saito (University of Tokyo)
TBA
[ Abstract ]
TBA

2026/05/14

Geometric Analysis Seminar

-   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Jacob Bernstein (Johns Hopkins University) -
TBA (英語)
[ Abstract ]
TBA
[ Reference URL ]
https://sites.google.com/g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/geometricanalysisseminar/
Peter Topping (University of Warwick) -
TBA (英語)
[ Abstract ]
TBA
[ Reference URL ]
https://sites.google.com/g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/geometricanalysisseminar/

2026/05/19

Operator Algebra Seminars

16:45-18:15   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Hiroro Kamikawa (Kyoto Univ.)
TBA
[ Reference URL ]
https://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yasuyuki/tokyo-seminar.htm

2026/05/22

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

13:15-14:45   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Justin Sawon (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
Classification results for Lagrangian fibrations
[ Abstract ]
A Lagrangian fibration on a holomorphic symplectic manifold or variety is one whose general fibre is an abelian variety that is Lagrangian with respect to the symplectic form. Examples were constructed by Beauville/Mukai whose fibres are Jacobians of curves, and by Markushevich-Tikhomirov, Arbarella-Sacca-Ferretti, Matteini, S-Shen, and Brakkee-Camere-Grossi-Pertusi-Sacca-Viktorova whose fibres are Prym varieties of curves with involutions. In all of these examples the family of curves is a linear system on a K3 surface, suggesting the question: is this always the case? Markushevich answered this affirmatively in the genus two case: if the relative compactified Jacobian of a family of genus two curves is a Lagrangian fibration then the curves all lie on a K3 surface, and the Lagrangian fibration is a Beauville-Mukai system. In this talk I will describe our generalization of this result to higher genus, and also to relative Prym varieties of genus three covers with involutions (joint work with Xuqiang Qin).

2026/05/26

Operator Algebra Seminars

16:45-18:15   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Takumi Nishihara (RIMS, Kyoto Univ.)
Compact group actions and $G$-kernels on von Neumann algebras
[ Reference URL ]
https://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yasuyuki/tokyo-seminar-e.htm

Numerical Analysis Seminar

16:30-18:00   Room #002 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Qin Sheng (Baylor University)
Advances in Splitting: Intercardinal Approaches to Nonlinear Hideo Kawarada Equations
(English)
[ Abstract ]
This presentation addresses two main issues. First, we shall discuss recent advancements in both exponential and non-exponential splitting methods, with particular emphasis on their stability, accuracy and global error estimates. Second, we shall introduce a new splitting configuration for solving nonlinear Hideo Kawarada equations with mixed derivative terms. This approach leads to intercardinal splitting finite-difference schemes that provide efficient and accurate numerical approximations of the underlying solutions.
We shall further demonstrate that the resulting implicit methods are numerically stable, convergent, and efficient, while preserving key physical properties such as the positivity and monotonicity. The dynamic orders of accuracy of the proposed algorithms will be illustrated using generalized Milne devices. Simulation examples of the solution procedure will be presented and investigated, and several open problems will also be outlined.
[ Reference URL ]
https://sites.google.com/g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/utnas-bulletin-board/

2026/06/02

Operator Algebra Seminars

16:45-18:15   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Yusuke Nishinaka (Nagoya Univ.)
Costello-Gwilliam factorization algebras and vertex algebras
[ Reference URL ]
https://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yasuyuki/tokyo-seminar.htm

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