| 日時 | 【These lectures were cancelled this time（Feb.6,2020)】
(1) 10:30 ～ 12:00, February 13 (Thu), 2020 (2) 16:00 ～ 17:30, February 14 (Fri), 2020 |
| Speaker | Professor Xiaohuan Mo (Bejing University) |
| Title | Lectures on Finsler Geometry and Information Geometry （１）“Zermelo navigation on Riemannian manifolds and dually flat Randers metrics” （２）“Funk functions and constructions of dually flat Finsler metrics” |
| Place | Sugimoto campus, Osaka City University (Building F of Faculty of Science, Lecture Room F405) |
| Abstract | （１）Randers metrics are natural and important Finsler metrics. In this lecture we review recent results in Randers geometry.
In particular, we construct explicitly all dually flat Randers metrics by using the bijection between Randers metrics and their navigation representation.
（２）Dually flat Finsler metrics arise from α-flat information structures on Riemann-Finsler manifolds. Inspired by the theory of Funk functions and Hamel functions due to Li-Shen, we give a new approach to produce dually flat Finsler metrics in this lecture. Moreover, we manufacture new dually flat spherically symmetric Finsler metrics by using the standard Euclidean norm on $R^n$. |
| Speaker | Hisashi Naito (Nagoya Univ.) |
| Title | 離散幾何解析 -- 離散曲面論と材料科学への応用 -- |
| Date | October 17 (Thu.), 18 (Fri.) 14:00 ～ 15：00 15:15 ～ 16：15 16:30 ～ 17：30 |
| Place | Osaka City University (Building F of Faculty of Science, Lecture Room F415) |
| Abstract | フラーレンやグラフェンなどの $sp^2$ 炭素構造は豊富な $\pi$ 電子を持つことから, 電子デバイスなどの材料として注目を集めている. 一方, 数学的な視点からは, これらの構造は３分岐離散曲面ととらえることができる. 従来の離散微分幾何の対象は連続的なオブジェクトの離散化であるが, 結晶構造・分子構造に関連する離散幾何学は本質的に離散的なオブジェクトを対象としている. 本講義では, 離散幾何解析の視点から結晶構造・分子構造を考え, ３分岐離散曲面に関する幾何学と材料科学への応用を初歩的なところから解説する. |
| Speaker | Anton Ayzenberg (Higher School of Economics) |
| Title | 1） Quaternionic toric topology and complexity one torus actions 2） From toric topology to the application of Poincare conjecture in material science. (joint with Dmitry Gugnin) 3） How a mouse perceives the topology of the space? (joint with V.Chernyshev, R.Drynkin, and many others) |
| Date | MAY 6 (Mon), 2019 15:00～18:30 |
| Place | F405，Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University |
| Abstract | 1）Historically, in toric topology two types of objects are studied: the
actions of a compact torus $T^n$ on manifolds and their real versions: the
actions of discrete torus $(Z/2)^n$ on manifolds. A lot is known about
the relation between moment angle manifolds and quasitoric manifolds, and
there is a real version of this relation, namely, the relation between
real moment angle manifolds and small covers. In 2012 Jeremy Hopkinson,
a graduate student of Nigel Ray, introduced a quaternionic version of these
stories. In quaternionic version a manifold is acted on by a noncommutative
group $(S^3)^n$
and a lot of interesting topology and combinatorics arise
that deserves further study. In my talk, I will describe briefly the main
points and difficulties which appear when you try to generalize from toric
topology to "quoric" topology (this is the short name for "quaternionic
toric" introduced by Hopkinson). I will concentrate on "quoric"
surfaces, which are 8-dimensional manifolds acted on by $(S^3)^2$. It happens
that there is an action of a compact 3-torus on each such manifold, which
gives a series of examples of complexity one torus actions. The $T^3$-orbit
spaces of these actions are homeomorphic to 5-spheres. 2）It is known that the right sided multiplication action of a compact torus $T^3$ on the Lie group U(3) of unitary matrices is free and the quotient is diffeomorphic to the complete flag variety Flag$(C^3)$. On the other hand, there exists the multiplication action of $T^3$ on U(3) from the left side: it reduces to the non-free action of $T^3$ on Flag$(C^3)$. Buchstaber and Terzic, using their theory of (2n,k)-manifolds, had proved that the orbit space Flag$(C^3)$/$T^3$ is homeomorphic to the 4-sphere. In other words, the double quotient $T^3$\U(3)/$T^3$ of a non-free two-sided multiplication action is a 4-sphere. There is a real version, which tells that the quotient of O(3) by the two-sided multiplication action of $(Z/2)^3$ is a 3-sphere. It happens, that the two-sided quotients of SO(3) by a pair of discrete groups acting from different sides appear in crystallography and material science under the name "misorientation spaces". We study misorientation spaces for different pairs of proper point crystallography groups. In many cases the misorientation space is a 3-sphere according to Poincare conjecture. In the remaining cases the topology of the misorientation space can also be completely described by Thurston's elliptization conjecture. In some cases it is possible to avoid the hardcore 3-dimensional topology: for several misorientation spaces we provide precise coordinates. As we hope, these can be used in applications. 3）In the last years it became quite popular in the world to combine topology with the brain study. Most of research is concentrated on the application of homology and persistent homology (I guess, because these can be calculated more or less efficiently). There is, however, a subfield in the brain study, which appears to be very geometrical and topological in its nature. The question is: how the location of a mammal is encoded in its brain? Nobel prize 2014 in physiology was given for discovery of place cells and grid cells in a brain of a mammal. A neural cell of this type fires when a mammal comes inside certain location of space. We may wonder: is it possible to recover the geometry and topology of the environment, given some data about neural activity? This task is very complicated and requires the cooperation of biologists, cognitive scientists, mathematicians, and specialists in big data analysis. I will give a general survey, and, if time allows, try to explain some fascinating homotopy theory beyond these problems. |
| Speaker | Peter Crooks (Northeastern Univ.) |
| Title | Kostant--Toda lattices and the universal centralizer |
| Date | April 9 (Tue), 2019 17:00～ |
| Place | F405，Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University |
| Abstract | Each finite-dimensional complex semisimple Lie algebra has a so-called universal centralizer, a hyperkähler variety of interest to geometric representation theorists. This variety carries a completely integrable system whose construction resembles that of the Kostant--Toda system. I will promote this resemblance to a precise relationship between the two aforementioned integrable systems. |
