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===[[Tushar Das]]===
===[[Tushar Das]]===
Title:
Title: Playing games on fractals: Dynamical & Diophantine


Abstract: Playing games on fractals: Dynamical & Diophantine
Abstract: We will present sketches of a program, developed in collaboration with Lior Fishman, David Simmons, and Mariusz Urbanski, which extends the parametric geometry of numbers (initiated by Wolfgang Schmidt and Leonhard Summerer) to Diophantine approximation for systems of m linear forms in n variables. Our variational principle (arXiv:1901.06602) provides a unified framework to compute Hausdorff and packing dimensions of a variety of sets of number-theoretic interest,  as well as their dynamical counterparts via the Dani correspondence. Highlights include the introduction of certain combinatorial objects that we call templates, which arise from a dynamical study of Minkowski’s successive minima in the geometry of numbers; as well as a new variant of Schmidt’s game designed to compute the Hausdorff and packing dimensions of any set in a doubling metric space. The talk will be accessible to students and faculty whose interests contain a convex combination of homogeneous dynamics, Diophantine approximation and fractal geometry.
We will present sketches of a program, developed in collaboration with Lior Fishman, David Simmons, and Mariusz Urbanski, which extends the parametric geometry of numbers (initiated by Wolfgang Schmidt and Leonhard Summerer) to Diophantine approximation for systems of m linear forms in n variables. Our variational principle (arXiv:1901.06602) provides a unified framework to compute Hausdorff and packing dimensions of a variety of sets of number-theoretic interest,  as well as their dynamical counterparts via the Dani correspondence. Highlights include the introduction of certain combinatorial objects that we call templates, which arise from a dynamical study of Minkowski’s successive minima in the geometry of numbers; as well as a new variant of Schmidt’s game designed to compute the Hausdorff and packing dimensions of any set in a doubling metric space. The talk will be accessible to students and faculty whose interests contain a convex combination of homogeneous dynamics, Diophantine approximation and fractal geometry.


===[[Rajula Srivastava]]===
===[[Rajula Srivastava]]===

Revision as of 15:28, 5 September 2023

Organizer: Shaoming Guo

Email: shaomingguo (at) math (dot) wisc (dot) edu

Time: Wed 3:30--4:30

Room: B223

We also have room B211 reserved at 4:25-5:25 for discussions after talks.

All talks will be in-person unless otherwise specified.

In some cases the seminar may be scheduled at different time to accommodate speakers.

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Week Date Speaker Institution Title Host(s) Notes (e.g. unusual room/day/time)
1 We, Sep. 6
Fr, Sept. 8 Tushar Das UW La Crosse Playing games on fractals: Dynamical and Diophantine Betsy Colloquium, 4-5pm in B239
2 Tu, Sept. 12 Rajula Srivastava Hausdorff Center of Mathematics, Bonn Counting Rational Points near Flat Hypersurfaces Andreas Tuesday 4:00 pm in VV B135
We, Sept. 13 Niclas Technau University of Graz Oscillatory Integrals Count Andreas
3 We, Sept. 20 Terry Harris UW Madison analysis group
4 We, Sept. 27
5 We, Oct. 4 Tristan Leger Princeton Simon
6 We, Oct. 11 Bingyang Hu Auburn Brian
7 We, Oct. 18
8 We, Oct. 25 Gigliola Staffilani MIT Mihaela and Leslie Special Colloquium 4-5pm in B239
Fr, Oct 27 Rodrigo Bañuelos Purdue Betsy Colloquium, 4-5pm in B239
9 We, Nov. 1 Tent scheduled distinguished lecture Distinguished lecture 4-5pm in B239
10 We, Nov. 8 Lechao Xiao Google deepmind Shaoming
11 We, Nov. 15 Neeraja Kulkarni Caltech Jacob
12 We, Nov. 22 No talk No talk No talk Thanksgiving week
13 We, Nov. 29 Changkeun Oh MIT Shaoming
14 We, Dec. 6
15 We, Dec. 13
1 We, Jan. 24, 2024
2 We, Jan. 31
3 We, Feb. 7
4 We, Feb. 14
5 We, Feb. 21
6 We, Feb. 28 Alex Rutar University of St. Andrews Andreas
7 We, Mar. 6 Song-Ying Li UC-Irvine Xianghong
8 We, Mar. 13
9 We, Mar. 20
Fr, Mar. 22 Jack Lutz Iowa State University Shaoming department colloquium, 4-5pm
10 We, Mar. 27 Spring recess spring recess spring recess
11 We, Apr. 3
12 We, Apr. 10
13 We, Apr. 17
14 We, Apr. 24
15 We, May 1


Abstracts

Tushar Das

Title: Playing games on fractals: Dynamical & Diophantine

Abstract: We will present sketches of a program, developed in collaboration with Lior Fishman, David Simmons, and Mariusz Urbanski, which extends the parametric geometry of numbers (initiated by Wolfgang Schmidt and Leonhard Summerer) to Diophantine approximation for systems of m linear forms in n variables. Our variational principle (arXiv:1901.06602) provides a unified framework to compute Hausdorff and packing dimensions of a variety of sets of number-theoretic interest,  as well as their dynamical counterparts via the Dani correspondence. Highlights include the introduction of certain combinatorial objects that we call templates, which arise from a dynamical study of Minkowski’s successive minima in the geometry of numbers; as well as a new variant of Schmidt’s game designed to compute the Hausdorff and packing dimensions of any set in a doubling metric space. The talk will be accessible to students and faculty whose interests contain a convex combination of homogeneous dynamics, Diophantine approximation and fractal geometry.

Rajula Srivastava

Title: Counting Rational Points near Flat Hypersurfaces

Abstract: How many rational points with denominator of a given size lie within a given distance from a compact hypersurface? In this talk, we shall describe how the geometry of the surface plays a key role in determining this count, and present a heuristic for the same. In a recent breakthrough, J.J. Huang proved that this guess is indeed true for hypersurfaces with non-vanishing Gaussian curvature. What about hypersurfaces with curvature only vanishing up to a finite order, at a single point? We shall offer a new heuristic in this regime which also incorporates the contribution arising from "local flatness". Further, we will describe how ideas from Harmonic Analysis can be used to establish the indicated estimates for hypersurfaces of this type immersed by homogeneous functions. In particular, we shall use a powerful bootstrapping argument relying on Poisson summation, duality between flat and "rough" hypersurfaces, and the method of stationary phase. A crucial role is played by a dyadic scaling argument exploiting the homogeneous nature of the hypersurface. Based on joint work with N. Technau.

Niclas Technau

Title: Oscillatory Integrals Count

Abstract: This talk is about phrasing (number theoretic) counting problems in terms oscillatory integrals. We shall provide a simple introduction to the topic, mention open questions, and report on joint work with Sam Chow, as well as on joint work with Chris Lutsko.





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