Dipartimento di Matematica -UTV-

Date	Type	Start	End	Room	Speaker	From	Title
15/03/24	Seminario	14:30	15:30		Anna MICHAEL	Universität Magdeburg	Algebra & Representation Theory Seminar (ARTS) "Folded galleries - a museum tour through 192 years of math history" N.B.: this talk is part of the activity of the MIUR Excellence Department Project Mat-Mod@TOV (CUP E83C23000330006) Abstract Folded galleries, as introduced by Peter Littelmann in the 1990s, are combinatorial objects related to certain (subsets of) elements of Coxeter groups. They have shown to have versatile applications in algebra and geometry, making them an object of interest for current research. In this talk we will retrace the roots of their invention 192 years back in history, contemplate colorful illustrations of examples, and discover open questions for future applications. N.B.: the talk will be colloquium-style and aimed at a wide audience: no prerequisite of deep algebraic nor group theoretic knowledge is required.
13/03/24	Seminario	16:00	17:00	1201 Dal Passo	Boris Bolvig Kjær	University of Copenhagen	Operator Algebras Seminar The double semion model in infinite volume Abstract According to physics literature, topologically ordered gapped ground states of 2-dimensional spin systems can be described by a topological quantum field theory. Many examples arise from microscopic models with local commuting projector Hamiltonians, namely Levin-Wen models. In this talk, I will describe the general framework for classifying infinite volume gapped ground states (by Naaijkens, Ogata, et.al.) in the simple context of abelian Levin-Wen models. This framework is heavily inspired by the DHR analysis in relativistic quantum field theory. It applies to the doubled semion model whose anyon theory is a braided fusion category equivalent to the representation category of the twisted Drinfeld double of Z_2. Based on joint work with Alex Bols and Alvin Moon, https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13762. Seminar schedule here: https://sites.google.com/view/oastorvergata/home-page.
12/03/24	Seminario	16:00	17:00	1201 Dal Passo	Shuang Chen	Central China Normal University	Invariant manifolds theory for fast-slow systems and applictions Abstract Dynamical systems with multiple time scales appear in a range of problems from applications. Invariant manifolds theory forms the foundation of qualitative analysis for their dynamics. In this talk, we will show our recent results on invariant manifolds theory for two classes of fast-slow systems, i.e., normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds for fast-slow high-dimensional systems and invariant structures for neutral differential equations with small delays.
12/03/24	Seminario	14:30	15:30	1201 Dal Passo	Alessandro Scagliotti	TU Munchen	Seminario di Equazioni Differenziali Control-theoretic approach for the approximation of the optimal transport map Abstract In this presentation, we tackle the problem of reconstructing the optimal transport map $T$ between two absolutely continuous measures $mu, u in mathcal{P}(mathbb{R}^n)$, and for this approximation we employ flows generated by linear-control systems in $mathbb{R}^n$. We first show that, under suitable assumptions on the measures $mu, u$ and on the controlled vector fields, the optimal transport map is contained in the $C^0_c$-closure of the flows generable by the system. In the case that discrete approximations $mu_N, u_N$ of the measures $mu, u$ are available, we use a discrete optimal transport plan to set up an optimal control problem. With a $Gamma$-convergence argument, we prove that its solutions corresponds to flows that provide approximations of the optimal transport map $T$. Finally, in virtue of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle, we propose an iterative numerical scheme for the resolution of the optimal control problem, resulting in an algorithm for the practical computation of approximations of the optimal transport map. This approach can be interpreted as the construction of a ''Normalizing Flow'' by means of a Residual Neural Network (ResNet). Based on a joint work with Sara Farinelli. [1] A. Scagliotti, S. Farinelli. Normalizing flows as approximations of optimal transport maps via linear-control neural ODEs. arXiv preprint, 2023. NB:This talk is part of the activity of the MIUR Excellence Department Project MATH@TOV CUP E83C23000330006
12/03/24	Seminario	14:30	16:00	1101 D'Antoni	Andrea Di Lorenzo	Humboldt University (Berlin)	The importance of being a weighted blow-up Abstract Blow-ups are fundamental tools in algebraic geometry, and there are several results (e.g the famous Castelnuovo's theorem) that can be used to determine when a variety is obtained as a blow-up of a smooth variety along a smooth center. Weighted blow-ups play a similar role for stacks. In this talk I will present a criterion for finding out if a smooth DM stack is a weighted blow-up. I will apply this result for showing that certain alternative compactifications of moduli of marked elliptic curves are obtained via weighted blow-ups (and blow-downs). This in turn will prove to be useful in order to compute certain invariants, like Chow rings or Brauer groups. First part of this talk is a joint work with Arena, Inchiostro, Mathur, Obinna and Pernice; the second part of this talk is a joint work with L. Battistella.
05/03/24	Seminario	14:30	16:01	1101 D'Antoni	Víctor González Alonso	Leibniz Universität Hannover	Embedded deformations of curves with maximal variation of Hodge structure Abstract Given a family of complex (smooth projective) manifolds, one can measure its non-triviality by looking at how much the Hodge structures of the fibres change. This leads to the notion of maximal (infinitesimal) variation of Hodge structure (IVHS). In the case of families of curves, results of Lee-Pirola and of myself with Torelli imply that a general deformation of any curve has maximal IVHS. This is however not so clear if one wants the deformation to keep some further structure, such as the gonality of the curve or an embedding into a given surface. For example, it was only recently proved by Favale and Pirola that every smooth plane curve admits a deformation as a plane curve with maximal IVHS, and the question remains open for deformations of curves inside any other surface. In this talk I will present a joint work in progress with Sara Torelli extending this result to curves in P^1 x P^1, which turns out to be way more involved than the plane case.
05/03/24	Seminario	14:30	15:30	1201 Dal Passo	Stefano Baranzini	Università di Torino	Seminario di Equazioni Differenziali Chaotic phenomena for singular systems on surfaces Abstract The main focus of the talk will be a class of 2d singular mechanical systems on a surface S with a potential V having a finite number of singularities C := {c_1,..., c_n} of the form V(q) ~ C_i d(c_i,q)^{-a_i} where C_i>0, a_i >= 1 and q in O(c_i). The first result I will present is an existence one: there are periodic solutions in (infinitely) many conjugacy classes of pi_1(S,C). Using this fact, I will construct an invariant set for the system which admits a semi-conjugation with a Bernoulli shift. The second result I will discuss aims at identifying some situation in which the semi-conjugation is actually a conjugation and the invariant set constructed displays a chaotic behaviour. This happens, for instance, under some negativity condition on the curvature of S and for large values of the energy. Much emphasis will be put on the interplay between geometry, topology and variational methods. This is a joint work with Gian Marco Canneori. Note: This talk is part of the activity of the MIUR Department of Excellence Project MatMod@TOV (2023-2027)
01/03/24	Seminario	16:00	17:00	1201 Dal Passo	Matteo MICHELI	“Sapienza” Università di Roma	Algebra & Representation Theory Seminar (ARTS) "Degenerations of the classical Grassmannians and their isotropic subvarieties" Abstract This talk is based on joint work in progress with E. Feigin, M. Lanini and A. Pütz. We analyze a family of Quiver Grassmannians for the equioriented cycle, which are degenerations of the classical Grassmannians: for each one, we describe its irreducible components, find a cellular decomposition in terms of attracting sets, and give an overview of the underlying combinatorics. Then we introduce symplectic conditions and try to understand the associated subvarieties, which are degenerations of the classical isotropic Grassmannians.
01/03/24	Seminario	14:30	15:30	1201 Dal Passo	Timm PEERENBOOM	Ruhr-Universität - Bochum	Algebra & Representation Theory Seminar (ARTS) "CoHas of extended Dynkin quivers" Abstract In this talk I give a description of the semistable Cohomological Hall algebra (CoHa) for extended Dynkin quivers with central slope in terms of generators and relations. This extends work of Franzen-Reineke who dealt with the case of the Kronecker quiver.
28/02/24	Seminario	16:00	17:00	1201 Dal Passo	Giovanni Landi	University of Trieste	Operator Algebras Seminar On Atiyah sequences of braided Lie algebras and their splittings Abstract To an equivariant noncommutative principal bundle one associates an Atiyah sequence of braided derivations whose splittings give connections on the bundle. There is an explicit action of vertical braided derivations as infinitesimal gauge transformations on connections. From the sequence one derives a Chern—Weil homomorphism and braided Chern— Simons terms. On the principal bundle of orthonormal frames over the quantum sphere S^{2n}_theta, the splitting of the sequence leads to a Levi-Civita connection on the corresponding module of braided derivations. The connection is torsion free and compatible with the 'round' metric. We work out the corresponding Riemannian geometry. Note: This talk is part of the activity of the MUR Excellence Department Project MatMod@TOV (CUP E83C23000330006)