Tidligere arrangementer - Side 47

by prof. Holger von Wenckstern

Department of Physics, UiO

?yvind Christiansen, PhD student at Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.

Specialization of (stable) birational types is an important tool when studying (stable) rationality in families. A crucial ingredient is to cook up one parameter degenerations such that the limit has certain combinatorial and geometric properties. Nicaise-Ottem studied these questions for hypersurfaces in algebraic tori, and used tropical geometry to construct degenerations that would have been hard (impossible) to construct geometrically. Even after these are constructed one must carefully study the limit in order to apply specialization techniques, this involves both combinatorics and questions about variation of stable birational types. I will talk about the specialization technique in the setup of Nicaise-Ottem, explain some natural questions that appear through the combinatorics, and give some positive results in this direction.

QOMBINE seminar talk by David Jaklitsch (Hamburg)

RSG Norway invites you to a panel discussion on career opportunities for bioinformaticians in and beyond academia

Hvordan kan staten bidra i arbeidet med tverrg?ende samfunnsutfordringer regionalt? Hvilke utfordringer m?ter vi ved overgang fra geografisk til funksjonsbasert organisering?

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.

Lars Frogner, PhD fellow of Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics (RoCS), University of Oslo.

The variety of sums of powers, VSP(F, r) of a homogeneous form F of rank r is the closure in the Hilbert scheme of apolar schemes of length r. A bad limit is a scheme in the closure that is not apolar to F. I will discuss examples of bad limits, including examples for quadrics found by Joachim Jelisiejew that contradicts earlier results on polar simplicies. This is report on work in progress with Jelisiejew and Schreyer and with Grzegorz and Michal Kapustka.

Prof. Sofian Audry, from University of Quebec in Montreal, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

Maksym Brilenkov, PhD student at Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.

Counterexamples to the integral Hodge conjecture can arise either from torsion cohomology classes (as in Atiyah's and Hirzebruch's original counterexample from 1961) or from non-torsion classes (as first seen in Koll¨¢r's counterexample from 1991). After Voisin proved the IHC for uniruled threefolds, Schreieder found a unirational fourfold where the IHC fails. His construction of a non-algebraic Hodge class relies on abstract arguments with unramified cohomology. It was an open question whether this class is of torsion type. In this talk, I want to explain a new method that gives an explicit geometric description of the unramified cohomology class appearing in his argument. In particular, this approach allows to prove that Schreieder's unirational counterexample is of torsion type.

Felleskollokvium ved ?yvind Guldbrandsen.

This year's Hassel lecture is headed by Professor Marc Fontecave. 

This year's Hassel lecture is headed by Professor Marc Fontecave. In this lecture, Professor Fontecave will use the case of France as a springboard to discuss the current energy situation, the different scenarios for the 2050 trajectories and the scientific and technological challenges that we must face.

By Prof. Levi Yant from the University of Nottingham, UK

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. 

Renate Mauland-Hus, PhD student at Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.

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.