כל האירועים המיוחדים Ical Atom

Geometry in the Spring

Program:

11:00-11:30 Gathering and light refreshements

11:30-12:30 Ran Tessler (Weizmann Institute of Science), ”The open arf invariant and stratifications of moduli spaces of surfaces with boundary“.

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:15 Award ceremony in honor of Noriko Sakurai, Hillel Gauchman and Yossi Friedman.

• Honorary speaker: Sergey Fomin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), ”Cluster Transformations“.

16:40-17:40 Eugenii Shustin (Tel Aviv University), TBA

Organizers:

• Prof. Miriam Cohen (Ben Gurion University),
• Prof. Daniel Sternheimer (Rikkyo University, Institut de Mathematiques de Bourgogne),
• Dr. Inna Entova-Aizenbud (Ben Gurion University).

The award ceremony will be held in the presence of Prof. Daniel Sternheimer and Ms. Julia Gauchman.

המדרשה היא כנס מתמטי המיועד לתלמידי מתמטיקה משנה ג‘ והלאה, והיא תכלול ארבע סדרות של הרצאות על ידי חברי סגל מהמחלקה למתמטיקה באוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב. זוהי הזדמנות להכיר חוקרים פעילים במתמטיקה, לשמוע הרצאות על תחום מחקרם באווירה ידידותית, לשוחח עימם ולשאול שאלות על מחקר מתמטי.

Official Website (containing the full program) and Poster

Jurij Volcic (BGU) will give three lectures on the theory of universal skew fields of fractions due to P.M. Cohn, a beautiful and powerful tool of noncommutative algebra little known outside of a small circle of cognoscenti. Everybody is invited (the lectures should be accessible for graduate students).

Time and place:

Tuesday Feb. 6, Thursday Feb. 15, and Sunday Feb. 18 at 11:30-13:00 in Room -101

Abstract:

As opposed to the commutative setting, localization in noncommutative rings is a much more intricate topic, accompanied with various subtle obstacles and at first sight counter-intuitive phenomena. An exceptional contribution to this field has been made by Paul Moritz Cohn (1924-2006) with the introduction of universal skew fields of fractions in the 70‘s, and his subsequent development of this theory. In the self-contained course of three talks I will try to present some of Cohn‘s core results with the view towards the universal skew field of fractions of a free algebra.

In the first lecture we will consider the general problem of embedding rings into skew fields, and early difficulties accompanying it. Following Cohn we will then introduce the category of epic skew fields and specializations assigned to a fixed ring. This will allow us to talk about universal skew fields of fractions and to draw parallels with the commutative theory.

In the second lecture we will explain the interplay between specializations, singular kernels, matrix ideals in matrix representation of fractions. Our aim will be to determine necessary and sufficient conditions for a ring to admit a (universal) skew field of fractions.

In the last lecture we will finally look at a concrete family of rings admitting universal skew fields of fractions: free ideal rings (firs), among which are free algebras, and their generalizations. We will trace down their distinguishing property that fulfills the sufficient condition from the previous lecture.

All faculty and students are cordially invited.

Program

18:00 Undergraduate math club

Barak Weiss, Tel Aviv University

The illumination problem

The following elementary problem in geometry is still open: given a polygon $P$ in the plane, say that points $x$ and $y$ in $P$ see each other if there is a billiard path from $x$ to $y$. Is there a polygon in which infinitely many pairs of points do not see each other?

Such problems turn out to be easy to state but very difficult to solve. I will explain this and related questions in greater detail, and describe some recent progress which relies on well-known work of Eskin and Mirzakhani (part of the late Maryam Mirzakhani‘s Field medal citation).

19:00 A Jazz show by Tsachik and the perverse sheaves

Ehud Ettun on bass

Haruka Yabuno on Piano

Tsachik Gelander on drums

The School will focus on Polish Groups. General theory, examples, representations of discrete groups with Polish targets, and applications to discrete groups, geometry and dynamics. The three main courses will be:

Mini-Courses###

1. General theory of Polish groups Jullien Melleray, Christian Rosendal and Todor Tsankov.
2. Algebraic groups over Polish fields. Jean Lécureux and Bertrand Rémy.
3. Infinite dimensional Lie groups and their symmetric spaces Bruno Duchesne.

In honor of Prof. Mikhail Klin, on the occasion of his retirement

Speaker: Antoine Ducros (Paris 6)

Title: Stability of Gauss valuations

Abstract:

A valued field $(k,|.|)$ is said to be stable (this terminology has no link with model-theoretic stability theory) if every finite extension $L$ of $k$ is defectless, i.e., satisfies the equality $\sum e_vf_v=[L:k]$, where $v$ goes through the set of extensions of $|.|$ to $L$, and where $e_v$ and $f_v$ are the ramification and inertia indexes of $v$. The purpose of my talk is to present a new proof (which is part of current joint reflexions with E. Hrushovski and F. Loeser) of the following classical fact (Grauert, Kuhlmann, Temkin,…) : let $(k,|.|)$ be a stable valued field, and let $(r_1,\dots,r_n)$ be elements of an ordered abelian group $G$ containing $|k^*|$. Let $|.|‘$ be the $G$-valued valuation on $k(T_1,\dots,T_n)$ that sends $\sum a_I T^I$ to $\max_I |a_I|\cdot r^I$. Then $(k(T_1,\dots,T_n),|.|‘)$ is stable too.

Our general strategy is purely geometric, but the proof is based upon model-theoretic tools coming from model theory (which I will first present; no knowledge of model theory will be assumed). In particular, it uses in a crucial way a geometric object defined in model-theoretic terms that Hrushovski and Loeser attach to a given $k$-variety $X$, which is called its stable completion; the only case we will have to consider is that of a curve, in which the stable completion has a very nice model-theoretic property, namely the definability, which makes it very easy to work with.

Joint Operator Algebras and Operator Theory Seminar, bringing together people from Ben-Gurion University, the Technion, Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa