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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).

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Gromov's 1999 cancellation question is: given two open embeddings of a variety U into a variety X, do they always have isomorphic closed complements? In my joint work with Hsueh-Yung Lin we reformulate this question in terms of the structure of the Grothendieck ring of varieties and answer it in various situations. The answer will be positive or negative depending on the dimension of varieties and the ground field. Finally, I will present an application to the structure of the Cremona group of birational self-maps of the projective space.

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Under certain constraints, we enumerate the different ways of simultaneously crossing a road intersection with alternating entries and exits, for a maximal number of vehicles. The problem reduces to the study of various types of non-crossing partitions of {1,…,n} and gives rise to new integer sequences. Standard combinatorial methods then lead to systems of polynomial equations, in which the unknowns are the generating functions of these sequences.

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Elliptic curves with complex multiplication (CM) have long served as some of the most powerful examples for understanding the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer (BSD) conjecture. In particular, a wide range of arithmetic phenomena has been observed in families of quadratic twists of these curves. In this talk, I will explain how CM elliptic curves have been used to advance our understanding of the conjecture, and discuss some current directions in this area, focusing in particular on Iwasawa theory and recent developments involving the Gross family of elliptic curves.

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Gagliardo-Nirenberg型不等式を、遠方で減衰する対数凹関数に対して導きます。証明では、関数から定まるエントロピーに対する上下からの評価が鍵となります。上からの評価には対数型ソボレフの不等式、下からの評価には関数の対数凹性を利用します。また、得られたGagliardo-Nirenberg型不等式における定数の精度についても議論します。さらに、完全非線形楕円型固有値問題の解に適用して、固有値に対する下からの評価を導きます。本講演の内容は、藤田安啓氏、五十嵐蓮氏との共同研究に基づきます。

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Let G/H be a homogeneous space of reductive type (such as the pseudo-Riemannian hyperbolic space H^{p,q}). If a discrete subgroup of G acts properly and freely on G/H, the quotient space becomes a manifold locally modelled on G/H and is called a Clifford-Klein form. In this talk, I will explain a new necessary condition on G/H for the existence of compact Clifford-Klein forms, formulated in terms of homotopy theory of sphere bundles. Our theorem and Adams's solution to the 'vector fields on sphere' problem (1962) together imply the following result: unless p is divisible by 2^{ν(q)}, there does not exist a compact complete pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of signature (p,q) with constant negative sectional curvature. Here, ν(q) is an explicit natural number roughly equal to q/2. This is joint work with Fanny Kassel and Nicolas Tholozan.

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Let G/H be a homogeneous space of reductive type (such as the pseudo-Riemannian hyperbolic space H^{p,q}). If a discrete subgroup of G acts properly and freely on G/H, the quotient space becomes a manifold locally modelled on G/H and is called a Clifford-Klein form. In this talk, I will explain a new necessary condition on G/H for the existence of compact Clifford-Klein forms, formulated in terms of homotopy theory of sphere bundles. Our theorem and Adams's solution to the ‘vector fields on sphere’ problem (1962) together imply the following result: unless p is divisible by 2^{ν(q)}, there does not exist a compact complete pseudo-Riemannian manifolds of signature (p,q) with constant negative sectional curvature. Here, ν(q) is an explicit natural number roughly equal to q/2. This is joint work with Fanny Kassel and Nicolas Tholozan.

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The subclass [2:2] of quadrirational Yang–Baxter maps on (0,∞)² contains three involutions H⁺_I, H⁺_II, and H^A_III. The central object of study is the independence-preserving property: given a map F with F(X,Y) = (U,V), one seeks all distributions of an independent pair (X,Y) for which (U,V) is again an independent pair. This property stands in direct analogy with classical characterisation theorems — the Kac–Bernstein and Lukacs theorems, and the Matsumoto–Yor property — in which the independence of a prescribed transformation characterises a specific family of distributions. A uniform derivation of the complete characterisation for all three maps is obtained via the theory of planar webs: a Jacobian identity common to all three maps reduces the problem to the determination of Abelian relations of a planar 4-web, whereupon Bol's bound and an explicit basis of three relations yield the full three-parameter families — the generalised beta-prime laws for H⁺_I, the Kummer laws for H⁺_II, and the generalised inverse Gaussian laws for H^A_III.

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Colding-Minicozzi entropy is a natural quantity associated to mean curvature flow which measures complexity of submanifolds of Euclidean space. We discuss some (nearly) optimal relationships between entropy and areas of (minimal) submanifolds of the sphere.

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Parabolic partial differential equations tend to improve regularity. Generally one can control strong norms (e.g. $C^k$) of a solution at time $t$ principally in terms of $t$ and a weak norm of the initial data. Curve shortening flow is a geometric flow for which the story is more weird and wonderful. I will explain some recent works with Arjun Sobnack from 2026 and before where this is manifest. I expect to be able to make the talk accessible to a relatively broad audience.

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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.

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We show that the cohomology of the structure sheaf of smooth and proper varieties over a complete non-archimedean field K with the ring R of integers of characteristic zero, can be refined to a birational cohomology theory of smooth (not necessarily proper) varieties over K with values in R-lattices, and the same holds for K of positive characteristic in dimensions at most 3.
As one application, we obtain that the automorphism group of the function field of a proper smooth variety X of dimension at most 3 over any field of positive characteristic acts quasi-unipotently on the cohomology of the canonical sheaf of X. The proof relies on some results from rigid analytic geometry on the cohomology of twisted integral rigid structure sheaves due to Bartenwerfer and van der Put.
This is a joint work with A. Merici and Kay Ruelling.

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Polylogarithms are special functions with many remarkable properties, notably their functional identities. The most interesting identities of this kind involve several variables and are known only in low weights. In weights 1 and 2, there is essentially one fundamental identity in each case: Cauchy’s equation for the logarithm and Abel’s five-term identity for the dilogarithm.
After introducing the subject, I will present natural generalizations, up to weight 6, of Cauchy’s and Abel’s identities. The new identities are no longer merely polylogarithmic, but hyperlogarithmic, and they arise naturally from the geometry of del Pezzo surfaces.
In the second part of the talk, I will discuss a generalization of an approach due to Gelfand and MacPherson in the weight 2 case, leading to a more canonical viewpoint on these hyperlogarithmic functional equations.
The first part of the talk is based on joint work with Ana-Maria Castravet.

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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.

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This talk starts from a simple question: how can one define a geometric mean for sparse positive definite matrices without destroying their zero pattern?
For the arrowhead pattern, this leads naturally to the five-dimensional Vinberg cone, a basic non-symmetric homogeneous cone.
I will present two intrinsic means on this cone: a Cholesky-Vinberg mean built from triangular Cholesky factors, and a logarithmic Vinberg mean built from global clan (Vinberg algebra) coordinates.
The first is tied to a flat affine geometry with torsion, while the second belongs to a torsion-free flat geometry.
I will also explain why these means differ from the classical Riemannian midpoint and why this difference is a genuinely non-symmetric phenomenon.
If time permits, I will give an application to quantum information theory.

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This talk starts from a simple question: how can one define a geometric mean for sparse positive definite matrices without destroying their zero pattern?
For the arrowhead pattern, this leads naturally to the five-dimensional Vinberg cone, a basic non-symmetric homogeneous cone.
I will present two intrinsic means on this cone: a Cholesky-Vinberg mean built from triangular Cholesky factors, and a logarithmic Vinberg mean built from global clan (Vinberg algebra) coordinates.
The first is tied to a flat affine geometry with torsion, while the second belongs to a torsion-free flat geometry.
I will also explain why these means differ from the classical Riemannian midpoint and why this difference is a genuinely non-symmetric phenomenon.
If time permits, I will give an application to quantum information theory.

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The vortex equation is a second-order PDE on a Riemann surface, defined in terms of a triple consisting of a holomorphic line bundle, a section, and a Hermitian metric. Its solutions are closely related to Hermitian–Einstein metrics and to geometric structures such as metrics with conical singularities. In https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.06710, Manton introduced several generalizations of the vortex equation, leading to five distinct types of vortex equations, which we refer to as Manton’s exotic vortex equations. In this talk, I will introduce these equations and discuss the existence of their solutions. I will also explain how these solutions can be obtained via dimensional reduction of a solution of Hermitian–Einstein equation.

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Directed polymers can be described as a tilting of the simple random walk, where some local random noise can attract or repel the trajectory of the walk. In the subcritical regime of the two-dimensional model, the partition function is known to be asymptotically approximated by a Gaussian log-correlated field. In a work in collaboration with Shuta Nakajima and Ofer Zeitouni, we could refine this result by proving that the maximum of the partition function field converges to that of a branching Brownian motion, which is the source of the log-correlation. In this talk, I will introduce the model as well as the objects related to it and present our result.

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We establish asymptotically Gaussian fluctuations for functionals of a large class of spin models and strongly correlated random point fields, achieving near-optimal rates.
For spin models, we demonstrate Gaussian asymptotics for the magnetization (i.e., the total spin) for a wide class of ferromagnetic spin systems on Euclidean lattices, in particular those with continuous spins. Specific applications include, in particular, the celebrated XY and Heisenberg models under ferromagnetic conditions, and more broadly, systems with very general rotationally invariant spins in arbitrary dimensions. We address both the setting of free boundary conditions and a large class of ferromagnetic boundary conditions, and our CLTs are endowed with near-optimal rate of O(log |Λ| · |Λ|−1/2) in the Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance, where the system size is |Λ|. Our approach leverages the classical Lee-Yang theory for the zeros of partition functions, and subsumes as a special case results of Lebowitz, Ruelle, Pittel and Speer on CLTs in discrete statistical mechanical models for which we obtain sharper convergence rates.
In a different direction, we obtain CLTs for linear statistics of a wide class of point processes known as α-determinantal point processes which interpolate between negatively and positively associated random point fields (including the usual determinantal, permanental and Poisson point processes).
We contribute a unified approach to CLTs in such models (agnostic to the parameter α that modulates the nature of association). Our methods are able to address a broad class of kernels including in particular those with slow spatial decay (such as the Bessel kernel in general dimensions). Significantly, our approach is able to analyse such processes in dimensions ≥ 3, where structural alternatives such as connections to random matrix theory are not available, and obtain explicit rates for fast convergence in a wide spectrum of models.
A key ingredient of our approach is a broad, quantitative extension of the classical Marcinkiewicz Theorem that holds under the limited condition that the characteristic function is non-vanishing only on a bounded disk. This technique complements classical work of Ostrovskii, Linnik, Zimogljad and others, as well as recent work of Michelen and Sahasrabudhe, and Eremenko and Fryntov. In spite of the general applicability of the results, including to heavy-tailed setups, our rates for the CLT match the classic Berry- Esseen bounds for independent sums up to a log factor.
Based on joint work with T.C. Dinh, H.S. Tran and M.H. Tran. Under revision at Annals of Applied Probability.

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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).

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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.