Shigefumi Mori, Kyoto University Institute of Advanced Study
BIRATIONAL EQUIVALENCE OF ALGEBRAIC VARIETIES
Monday, November 26 2018, at 16:30
Aula Chisini, Diparimento di Matematica, Via C. Saldini 50 | |
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Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles
VAPORIZING AND FREEZING THE RIEMANN ZETA FUNCTION
Friday, June 22 2018, at 14:30
Edificio U4, P.zza della Scienza, 4, Aula Luisella Sironi |
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In 1950, de Bruijn studied the effect of evolving the Riemann zeta function (or more precisely, a closely related function known as the Riemann xi function) by the (backwards) heat equation. His analysis, together with later work by Newman, showed that there existed a finite constant Lambda, at most 1/2 in value, such that the Riemann hypothesis for this evolved function was true at times greater than or equal to Lambda, and false below that threshold. Thus the Riemann hypothesis for the zeta function is equivalent to Lambda being non-positive. Recently, in joint work with Brad Rodgers, I was able to establish the complementary estimate that Lambda is non-negative, confirming a conjecture of Newman; thus, the Riemann hypothesis for zeta, if true, is only "barely so". The proof relies on an analysis of the dynamics of zeroes of entire functions under heat flow; it turns out that as one evolves forward in time, the zeroes "freeze" into approximate arithmetic progressions, while if one evolves backwards, the zeroes "vaporize" to leave the critical line. In followup work in an online collaborative "Polymath" project, the upper bound on Lambda has also been improved. We describe these results and their proofs in this talk.
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Zeljko Cuckovic, University of Toledo
The essential norm estimates of Hankel and the $\overline\partial$-Neumann operators
Friday, June 01 2018, at 11:00
Sala di Rappresentanza, Università di Milano, Via C. Saldini 50, Milano | |
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Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
Tales of Our Forefathers
Tuesday, May 29 2018, at 11:00
Sala Consiglio, 7 piano, Edificio La Nave, Via Bonardi 9 | |
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Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
SPECTRAL THEORY, SUM RULES AND LARGE DEVIATIONS
Monday, May 28 2018, at 16:30
Aula Chisini, Diparimento di Matematica, Via C. Saldini 50 | |
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Grigory Mikhalkin, Université de Genève
Maximally writhed real algebraic knots and links
Thursday, May 17 2018, at 17:00 precise
Sala di Rappresentanza, Università di Milano, Via C. Saldini 50, Milano | |
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