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Après-midi de théorie des groupes

Salle W (Toits du DMA)

14.00 -14.45 Cornelia Drutu (Oxford), Fixed point properties and conformal dimension of the boundary for hyperbolic groups 15.00- 15-45 Mathieu Dussaule (Nantes), The Guivarch inequality in relatively hyperbolic groups 15.45-16.15 coffee break, 16.15-17.00 Anthony Genevois (Orsay), Cubical geometry of braided Thompson's group

Inégalités fonctionnelles et problème de comportement en temps grand

ENS (amphithéâtre Galois sous la bibliothèque de mathématique)

Dans cet exposé, nous verrons que certaines inégalités fonctionnelles jouent un rôle crucial dans l'étude du comportement en temps grand de solutions de certaines EDP. Plus précisément, nous utiliserons des méthodes dites de dissipation d'entropie (dont le but est t'établir des versions quantitatives du mécanisme de décroissance de l'entropie) dans le cas de l'équation de Fokker-Planck. Nous étudierons ensuite le cas plus complexe de l'équation de Boltzmann (homogène en espace) et verrons que ces méthodes fournissent également des résultats sur le comportement en temps grand des solutions de l'équation. Néanmoins, […]

Groups definable in Presburger arithmetic

Sophie Germain salle 2015

I will give a complete description of all groups definable in Presburger arithmetic, up to finite index subgroups. This builds on previous work on bounded groups in Presburger arithmetic by Mariana Vicaria and Alf Onshuus.

Almost strongly minimal ample geometries

The notion of ampleness captures essential properties of projective spaces over fields. It is natural to ask whether any sufficiently ample strongly minimal set arises from an algebraically closed field. In this talk I will explain the question and present recent results on ample strongly minimal structures.

Point-wise surjective presentations of stacks, or why I am not afraid of (infinity) stacks anymore

ENS Salle W

Any algebraic stack X can be represented by a groupoid object in the category of schemes: that is, a pair of schemes Ob, Mor and morphisms source, target: Mor → Ob, inversion: Mor → Mor, composition: Mor ×_{Ob} Mor → Mor and identity: Ob → Mor that satisfy certain axioms. Yet this description of the stack X might be misleading. Namely, given a field F which is not algebraically closed, we have a natural functor between the groupoid (Ob(F),Mor(F)) and the groupoid X(F). While this functor is fully faithful, it […]

Non-archimedean and motivic integrals on the Hitchin fibration

ENS Salle W

Based on mirror symmetry considerations, Hausel and Thaddeus conjectured an equality between `stringy' Hodge numbers for moduli spaces of SL_n/PGL_n Higgs bundles. With Michael Groechenig and Paul Ziegler we prove this conjecture using non-archimedean integrals on these moduli spaces, building on work of Denef-Loeser and Batyrev. Similar ideas also lead to a new proof of the geometric stabilization theorem for anisotropic Hitchin fibers, a key ingredient in the proof of the fundamental lemma by Ngô.In my talk I will outline the main arguments of the proofs and discuss the adjustments […]

Nonuniqueness for the Navier–Stokes equations and model equations / Singularities in Fluid Mechanics

ENS Salle W

JG: In this talk, I will discuss fundamental properties of the solutions to the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in three dimensions. After reviewing the classical local well-posedness results, I will explain how numerical simulations suggest local ill-posedness at the borderline of the known results. I will discuss a plausible scenario of non-uniqueness from smooth initial data through finite-time blow-up. Finally, I will describe how this scenario is actually happening in a model equation sharing the same fundamental properties as the Navier–Stokes equations.KM: Singularities of the Navier-Stokes equations occur when some derivative […]

Après-midi de théorie de groupes

Salle W (DMA)

14.00-14.45 Stefan Witzel (Ecole Polytehchnique)15.00-15.45 Katie Vokes (IHES)15.45-16.15 coffee break16.15-16.45 Adrien Le Boudec (ENS Lyon)Stefan Witzel, Arithmetic approximate groups and their finiteness propertiesI will talk about approximate groups, a geometric generalization of groups. Approximate groups were discovered independently in various contexts and I will describe how they arise very naturally in the context of arithmetic groups. I will then explain how to extend topological finiteness properties of groups to approximate groups. This allows to make a connection betweenarithmetic groups in positive characteristic and arithmetic approximate groups in characteristic zero. The […]

Après-midi de théorie de groupes

IHP salle 1

14.00-14.45 Katrin Tent (Munster), Burnside groups of relatively small odd exponent15.00-15.45 Arindam Biswas (Vienne), On minimal complements in groups16.15-16.45 Laurent Bartholdi (Institut d'études avancées, ENS Lyon), Dimension series and homotopy groups of spheres

An abstract elementary class framework for fields with commuting automorphisms

We take a look at structures that consist of a field together with finitely many distinguished field automorphisms required to commute. The theory of fields with one distinguished automorphism has a model companion known as ACFA, which Z. Chatzidakis and E. Hrushovski have studied in depth. However, Hrushovski has proved that if you look at fields with two or more commuting automorphisms, then the existentially closed models of the theory do not form a first order model class. This leads us to investigate them within a non-elementary framework. One way […]

H-structures

Sophie Germain salle 2015

A complete theory T is called geometric if the algebraic closure has the exchange property in all models of T and the theory eliminates the quantifier exists infinity. In such theories there is a rudimentary notion of independence given by algebraic independence. Examples of geometric theories include SU-rank one theories and dense o-minimal theories.An expansion of a model M of T by a unary predicate H is called dense-codense if for every finite dimensional subset A of M and every non algebraic type p(x) over A, there is a realization […]