Gjesteforelesninger og seminarer - Side 6
The Section 4 seminar for the Autumn of 2022 will be held on Thursdays from 10:15–12:00 (see the schedule)
Consider the singularity C^4/(Z/2), where Z/2 acts as the matrix diag(-1,-1,-1,-1). This singularity is special, in that it does not admit a crepant resolution. However, it does admit a so-called noncommutative crepant resolution, given by a Calabi-Yau 4 quiver. The moduli space of representations of this quiver turns out to share a lot of similarities with moduli spaces of sheaves over Calabi-Yau fourfolds, and it turns out that we can reuse techniques from studying moduli of sheaves to define and compute invariants of this moduli space of representations. In this talk, I will explain how these invariants can be defined, and give conjectures about the forms of these invariants. This talk is based on joint work with Raf Bocklandt.
The Thoralf Skolem Memorial Lecture 2022
QOMBINE seminar talk by David Jaklitsch (Hamburg)
Ingeborg Gjerde (Simula Research Laboratory) presents joint work with Ridgway Scott (University of Chicago).
Abstract: Airflow around airplane wings is characterized by a wide range of flow scales, making it highly challenging to capture numerically. From a simulation viewpoint, the following questions are still being actively investigated: Why do airplanes fly? Can one reliably simulate the lift and drag of an airplane wing? In this talk, I will provide no good answers to these questions. Instead, I want to talk about some interesting results I've stumbled into tangentially, including:
- (Nonlinear) kinetic energy instability analysis, also referred to as Reynolds-Orr instability
- Slip boundary conditions and their connection to D'Alembert's paradox
- Stokes' paradox and its connection to weighted Sobolev spaces. I will show numerical results computed for flow around a cylinder, which serves as a proxy for flow around an airplane wing. In particular, I will talk about the impact of the friction boundary condition on the drag force and flow stability. Finally, I will comment on how these results might be interpreted in view of: New Theory of Flight, J. Hoffman, J. Jansson, C. Johnson (2016), Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics.
In this talk, I will go through my past research before joining UiO, particularly at The University of Texas at Austin. This will include a brief introduction to the development of stable and adaptive finite element methods for challenging problems in engineering science. Second, I will focus on modeling efforts in coastal ocean hydrodynamics, including a review of the underlying physics and assumption and a review of the current state-of-the-art. I will also introduce several related to my focus of storm surge modeling and how the models are used by stakeholders beyond academia.
As a consequence of the S-duality conjecture, Vafa and Witten conjectured certain symmetries concerning invariants derived from spaces of vector bundles on a closed Riemannian four-manifold. For a smooth complex projective surface X, a satisfying mathematical definition of Vafa-Witten invariants has been given by Tanaka and Thomas. Their invariants are a sum of two parts, one of which can be defined in terms of moduli spaces of stable vector bundles on X. Focusing on this instanton part of the VW invariants one can ask how it changes under blowing up the surface X. I will discuss joint work with Oliver Leigh and Yuuji Tanaka that answers this question.
- Modellering og analyse av renterisiko i en post-Libor-verden med ESG.
- Matematisk institutt ved Universitet i Oslo tilbyr et to-dagers etterutdanningskurs i renterisiko ved David Banos og Fred Espen Benth.
I will explain how a recent “universal wall-crossing” framework of Joyce works in equivariant K-theory, which I view as a multiplicative refinement of equivariant cohomology. Enumerative invariants, possibly of strictly semistable objects living on the walls, are controlled by a certain (multiplicative version of) vertex algebra structure on the K-homology groups of the ambient stack. In very special settings like refined Vafa-Witten theory, one can obtain some explicit formulas. For moduli stacks of quiver representations, this geometric vertex algebra should be dual in some sense to the quantum loop algebras that act on the K-theory of stable loci.
When a body (such as an offshore structure and ship) exists on the surface of the ocean, it is influenced by waves. At the same time, waves are deformed by the body. This interaction is essential for considering the problems of bodies in waves. Although these are complicated systems, the theory is well-established based on linear potential flow, and this explains these phenomena very well.
In the seminar, some applications of potential theory-based analysis are shown, including the seakeeping of a ship, multi-bodies interaction, and elastic plate in waves. In addition, the progress of the study of wave-ice interaction in a marginal ice zone is presented which is a current work in UiO.
The survival of green plants depends on the efficient use of photosynthesis in the leaves, where sunlight, water, and CO2 are transformed into sugar – the raw material, which builds up even the largest trees. The dissolved sugars are transported by osmosis through the sieve tubes of the phloem, a vascular system, which runs through the veins of the leaves and on through the stem, all the way down into the roots. The sugar production sites (mesophyll) are distributed over the entire leaf, and it is important for the functionality of the leaf that they are all able to export their sugars. For conifer needles the linear venation architecture makes this challenging, and they have an extra “transfusion tissue” that bridges between production and transport. We are currently studying this complex collection of interdigitated water -and sugar-carrying cells by micro X-ray tomography on intact needles and by network modelling, to understand the pathways for water and for sugars (running in opposite directions) with huge pressure differences (say 3 MPa) across tiny length scales (say 5 microns).
Thomas Bohr is Professor of Physics at the Physics Department of the Technical University of Denmark.
Diffusion and reactions are central to understanding life. However, studies often focus on dilute systems, while the interior of living cells is crowded with macromolecules that occupy about 20 % to 40 % of the cell volume, affecting virtually all intracellular processes [1]. In this talk, I will mainly focus on diffusion, emphasising the effects significant to crowded intracellular environments, such as polydispersity of crowders [2], macromolecular shapes, interactions [3], and softness [4]. We will also briefly discuss how reactions proceed under crowding, paying particular attention to enzymatic reactions [5] and the cooperativity of divalent binding [6].