AAM Seminar
Typically the AAM Seminar runs Wednesdays at 2:30pm. Here is the latest schedule:
Fall 2024
- August 28, 2:30pm: Dr. Alex McDonald, KSU
- Title: Prescribed projections and efficient coverings of sets by curves
- Abstract: A remarkable result of Davies shows that an arbitrary measurable set in the plane
can be covered by lines in such a way that the union of the lines minus the original
set has measure zero. This theorem has an equivalent dual formulation which says that
one can find a single set in the plane with given "prescribed" projections in almost
every direction, up to measure zero errors. We extend these results to a non-linear
setting and prove that a set in the plane can be covered efficiently by translates
of a single curve satisfying a mild curvature assumption.
- September 4, 2:30pm: Dr. Emanuel Indrei, KSU
- Title: On the equilibrium shape of a crystal
- Abstract: Minimizing the free energy under a mass constraint may generate a convex crystal
in n−dimensions subject to assumptions on the potential. The problem attributed to
Almgren is to understand if this is the case assuming g is convex or more generally
if sub-level sets are convex. My talk will address this problem.
- September 25, 2:30pm: Dr. Henry Lamm, Fermilab
- Title: Groups, Rings, and Hadrons
- Abstract: The advent of quantum computation provides an opportunity to solve new problems in
theoretical physics. Taking advantage of this new hardware requires efficiently formulating
quantum field theories as well as approximating and compiling arbitrary unitary gates
from a small set of gates that can be prepared precisely on qubit or qudit devices.
In this talk, I will discuss how algebraic structures arise as a necessary component
to running quantum computers, and some outstanding problems related to them.
- November 13, 2:30pm: Rik Westdorp, Leiden University
