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Time and place: , NHA B1120

I will talk about how one can relate intersection theories of Hilbert schemes of points and Fulton-MacPherson compactifications.

Time and place: , NHA 723 and Online
Time and place: , Erling Svedrups plass and Zoom https://uio.zoom.us/j/66503159220?pwd=alhPVFpHNUxVUTNoeHhIcVFtUWx4UT09
In this talk I will cover the recent advances in the theory of power law distributions, in particular the role of Markov modulation and random stopping emphasized by Beare and Toda (2022), which builds on Nakagawa (2007)’s Tauberian theorem. Applications include the emergence of Zipf’s law in Japanese cities and the spread of COVID-19. I will also present open mathematical problems.
 
• Beare, Brendan K., and Alexis Akira Toda. "Determination of Pareto exponents in economic models driven by Markov multiplicative processes." Econometrica 90.4 (2022): 1811-1833.
• Nakagawa, Kenji. "Application of Tauberian theorem to the exponential decay of the tail probability of a random variable." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 53.9 (2007): 3239-3249.
• Beare, Brendan K., and Alexis Akira Toda. "On the emergence of a power law in the distribution of COVID-19 cases." Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 412 (2020): 132649.
 
Time and place: , NHA 723 and Online
Time and place: , NHA 107

C*-algebra seminar by Eduard Vilalta (Chalmers University of Technology / University of Gothenburg)

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QOMBINE seminar talk by Franz Fuchs (University of Oslo)

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The purpose of this workshop is to bring together communities in dynamical systems, harmonic analysis and operator algebras whose research relates to point sets in Euclidean space and general locally compact groups.

Time and place: , NHA B1120
Donaldson-Thomas invariants "virtually" count curves in a given threefold. They factor into two parts: a part which only counts curves, and a degree 0 part, which counts 0-dimensional subschemes. The degree 0 part can be fully computed with a closed formula by relating them to combinatorial counting of plane partitions, which are certain configurations of boxes in 3D space. DT theory comes in various refinements. Nekrasov's formula refines the relation to counts of plane partitions to equivariant K-theoretic DT theory and gives a closed formula for refined degree 0 DT invariants.
 
Degree 0 DT invariants of orbifolds are related to counts of colored plane partitions, where the boxes are colored in a way determined by the orbifold structure. This allows the computation of closed formulas for some orbifolds. We refine these closed formulas to equivariant K-theoretic DT theory by modifying the techniques used in Okounkov's proof of Nekrasov's formula to work for orbifolds. We will explain these techniques in the case of schemes and describe some of the modifications to make them work for orbifolds.
Time and place: , Abels Utsikt (NHA 1259)
Time and place: , NHA 723 and Online
Time and place: , room 1259 (Abels Utsikt) - Niels Henrik Abels hus

Doctoral candidate Anders Sandnes at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Bayesian machine learning for virtual flow metering for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Time and place: , Erling Sverdrups plass, Niels Henrik Abels hus, 8th floor
Climate and weather can affect disease prevalence in different ways. For instance, humidity and temperature affect the life cycles of mosquitos which can greatly influence the prevalence of vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue. Modelling this relationship is very important, both in the short term for outbreak preparedness, and in the long term, for health systems to adapt to the changing climate. However, this modelling is difficult because of low amounts of quality health data, complexities in spatial-temporal modelling, and the many different domains (vector biology, climate, epidemiology).
In this talk I will present our work on building a framework both for developing modularized and adaptable climate-health models, and for rigorously evaluating the utility of these models.
Time and place: , room 1259 (Abels Utsikt) - Niels Henrik Abels hus

Doctoral candidate Clara Bertinelli Salucci at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Advancing data-driven diagnostics and prognostics for lithium-ion batteries: A focus on model interpretability and accuracy for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Time and place: , NHA B1120

Abstract: Although tropical vector bundles have been introduced by Allermann ten years ago, very little has been said about their structure and their relationship to vector bundles on algebraic varieties. I will present recent work with Martin Ulirsch and Dmitry Zakharov that changes exactly this in the case of curves: we prove analogues of the Weil-Riemann-Roch theorem and the Narasimhan-Seshadri correspondence for tropical vector bundles on tropical curves. We also show that the non-Archimedean skeleton of the moduli space of semistable vector bundles on a Tate curve is isomorphic to a certain component of the moduli space of semistable tropical vector bundles on its dual metric graph. Time permitting I will also report on work with Inder Kaur, Martin Ulirsch, and Annette Werner and explain some of the difficulties that arise when generalizing beyond the case of curves to Abelian varieties of arbitrary dimension.

Time and place: , NHA 720

C*-algebra seminar by Emilie Elkiær.

Time and place: , Niels Henrik Abels hus, 12th floor

We consider several situations where drops can be captured by fibrous materials, from sprays on textiles (where the droplets are much larger than the typical fiber size) to meshes placed in a flow of fog (where the droplets are smaller than the typical fiber size). This last system, often encountered in aerosol filtration, exhibits a wealth of phenomena coupling capillarity and aerodynamics. In particular, we characterize experimentally and theoretically the deposition of the mist droplets on the fibre and the flow through and around the porous mesh, that both strongly depend on the mesh porosity and fine structure (i.e. the arrangements of the fibers). We further consider the dynamics of large drops sitting on fibers when exposed to a cross-flow, in particular their interactions with their unsteady wakes.

 
Time and place: , Niels Henrik Abels hus, 12th floor

A liquid droplet placed on a rigid, planar surface has a captivating simplicity: its surface is a spherical cap and remains in equilibrium. In this talk, I’ll show that the addition of a deformable boundary leads to a range of new phenomena: evaporating droplets with an elastic skin may develop flat tops, but even without a complex rheology, reaching equilibrium can happen slowly, with the droplet’s contact ageing. I will discuss two specific examples, presenting a combination of theory and experiment for each.

Time and place: , room 1259 (Abels Utsikt) - Niels Henrik Abels hus

Doctoral candidate Stephane Poulain at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Capillarity, Elastohydrodynamic, and Fluid-Structure Interactions at Small Scales for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Time and place: , Niels Henrik Abels hus, 9th floor

The theory of flexible plates can be applied to models of floating solar panels. When wet, the structure vibrates with lower frequencies than when in vacuo.  Our study is concerned with thin rectangular porous plates with free edge conditions in three dimensions exposed to incoming waves. We develop a complete hydrodynamical theory of the wave-flexible-structure interaction including the coupled radiation-diffraction problem. The formulation leads to a set of integral equations for the potentials on the wetted side of the plate. The Green function in three dimensions is implemented along the floating geometry. We use the beam method for the displacement of the rectangular free plate. A variational equation is minimized for the solutions of the interaction problem

 
Time and place: , NHA B1120

Note the non-standard start time!

 
Abstract: We consider mirror pairs of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces X and X’ in toric varieties associated to dual reflexive polytopes. We will give a proof through tropical geometry that the Hodge numbers of X and X’ are mirror symmetric. The proof goes by considering tropical homology, and works over the ring of integer numbers. In particular, we can use our spectral sequence with Kris Shaw to explore the connections between the topology of the real part of X and cohomological operations on X’.

This is based on joint work with Diego Matessi. 

Time and place: , room 1259 (Abels Utsikt) - Niels Henrik Abels hus

Doctoral candidate Viktor Balch Barth at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Endomorphisms of ℙ¹ and 𝔸ⁿ. Motivic homotopy classes and open images for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Time and place: , NHA 720

C*-algebra seminar by Sergey Neshveyev.

Time and place: , Abels Utsikt (NHA 1259)
Time and place: , Erling Sverdrups plass, Niels Henrik Abels hus, 8th floor

Structural equation models are simultaneous equation regression models, whose variables are latent, and measured via a confirmatory factor model (that is, with measurement error and repeated measurements). When the functional form of the simultaneous equation system is unknown, it has previously been observed in simulations that factor scores inputted into non-parametric regression methods approximate the true functional form. Factor scores estimate the latent variables (per person), and several types exist. We provide a theoretical (though population-based) analysis of this procedure, and provide assumptions under which it is theoretically justified in using Bartlett factor scores, which are simple linear transformations of the data. In simulations, we compare this suggestion to an already available though understudied non-linear and computationally heavy procedure, and observe that the simple Bartlett approach appears to work better.