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BASIC NOTIONS SEMINAR: The Calabi Problem
The seminar explains Calabi's problem on which complex varieties admit Kähler-Einstein metrics, highlighting differential and algebraic geometry connections.
Lefschetz fibrations and closed exotic 4-manifolds - 5
Lefschetz fibrations are explored through models of genus two vibrations and their implications for closed exotic 4-manifolds.
Real Seiberg-Witten theory - 5
Real Seiberg-Witten theory introduces insights about the topology of embeddings and their invariants in manifold theory, emphasizing surprises in smooth isotopic behaviors.
Skein lasagna modules - 5
The video discusses gluing of 4-manifolds in the Lee scheme lasagna modules, computing Rasmuson invariants for handle bodies, and stability conditions for limits of filtration levels.
Kontsevich invariants from configuration spaces 4
This lecture introduces handle replacement as a calculational tool for Kontsevich invariants, focusing on baromeia rings, cipher surfaces, and handlebody manipulations in embedding spaces.
Unoriented link Floer homology and Khovanov homology
This talk explores unoriented link Floer homology and its relationship with Khovanov homology, highlighting a new spectral sequence relating knot invariants.
Monopole Floer homology for webs and foams
The talk introduces Monopole Floer homology for webs and foams, emphasizing the topological and combinatorial structures, and their relation to gauge theory and the four-color theorem.
Rational homology real projective four-spaces and their smooth structures
The talk presents a constructive method for building exotic smooth structures on non-orientable 4-manifolds, especially RP4, using simple, controllable techniques.
The Action
This talk explores the complexity of classifying dynamical systems, revealing that many common equivalence relations are non-Borel, implying inherent difficulty in their complete classification.
On the stability and instability of elliptic equilibria and invariant quasi-periodic tori of real...
The lecture discusses stability, instability, and diffusion mechanisms of elliptic equilibria and quasi-periodic tori in real analytic Hamiltonian systems, emphasizing the role of normal forms and resonances.
An extension of Katok non-stationary normal coordinate along one dimensional invariant manifold
This talk introduces non-stationary normal coordinates to analyze the non-smoothness of foliations in partially hyperbolic systems, leading to insights on exponential mixing.
Rigidity for generalized u-Gibbs states - Part IV
This lecture explores rigidity phenomena in dynamical systems, linking quantitative non-integrability (Q&I) to smoothness and structural properties of invariant measures, particularly in the context of Anosov flows.
Functoriality of odd Khovanov homology and branched double-covers
This talk establishes the functoriality of odd Khovanov homology for link cobordisms in $S^3 \times I$, introducing a new module structure with implications for knot invariants.