Nov. 13 2020 - Weixiao Shen (沈维孝) (Fudan
University)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Room 1114, Science Building 1,
Peking University
Title: Primitive tuning via quasiconformal
surgery****
Abstract: In 1980s, Douady-Hubbard
developed a complex counterpart of the Feigenbaum renormalization theory for
quadratic-like maps and used this theory to prove existence of small copies in
the Mandelbrot set. Inou and Kiwi have extended most
of Douady-Hubbard's theory to higher degree
polynomial-like maps, but a key surjectivity property
was left as a conjecture. We will show how to use quasiconformal
surgery to prove this surjectivity conjecture by Inou-Kiwi, under a primitive assumption. This is a
joint work with Wang Yimin.
Nov. 20 2020 - Guizhen Cui (崔贵珍) (Chinese
Academy of Sciences)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Room 1114, Science Building 1,
Peking University
Title: Rational maps with constant Thurston maps*
Abstract: A rational map with marked points induces
a holomorphic map between Teichmüller spaces of
punctured spheres, which is called the Thurston pullback map. One natural
problem is to classify the marked rational maps with constant Thurston maps. In
this talk, I will introduce the background about this problem at first. Then
present a new class of rational maps with constant Thurston pullback maps. This
result can be stated in elementary geometry. In the last I will present some
relations about this problem with monodromy groups of
rational maps.
Nov. 27 2020 - Robert
Tang (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
Time: 10:00-11:00am (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 647 1604 0205,
Password: 112487)
Title: Affine diffeomorphism groups are undistorted
Abstract: Studying the distortion properties of
naturally occurring subgroups of the mapping class group plays an important
part in understanding its large-scale geometry. In this talk, I will focus on
the affine diffeomorphism group Aff(S,q) of a half-translation surface (S,q).
This is the group of self-diffeomorphisms with constant differential away from
the singularities. This group also coincides with the stabilizer of the
associated Teichmüller disc under the action of the
mapping class group on Teichmüller space. Our main
result is that any finitely generated subgroup of Aff(S,q) is undistorted in the mapping class group.
Dec. 4 2020
- Mario Bonk (UCLA)
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 649 4519 4579,
Password: 143386)
Title: Sullivan's dictionary and beyond*****
Abstract: The classical theory of holomorphic
dynamics includes the theory of Kleinian groups and the iteration theory of
rational maps. In the 1980s Sullivan pointed out several analogies between
these two subjects. For example, the concept of a Julia set of a rational map
corresponds to the concept of a limit set of a Kleinian group. Even if one goes
beyond holomorphic dynamics, an “extended” Sullivan dictionary can be very
helpful as a guide for investigations. In my talk I will give an introduction
to this subject and will discuss some recent developments.
Dec. 10 2020
- Huiping Pan (潘会平) (Jinan University)
Time:
4:00-5:00 pm (Beijing Time) Location:
Zoom (ID: 653 2910 3639, Password: 175707)
Title: On the geometry of the saddle connection
graph
Abstract: Every half-translation surface induces a
singular flat metric. A saddle connection on a half-translation surface is an
open geodesic segment which connects singular points and which contains no
singular points in the interior. The saddle connection graph is a graph whose
vertices are saddle connections and edges are pairs of disjoint saddle
connections. In this talk, we will discuss the geometry of saddle connection
graphs. We will show that on the one hand saddle connection grpahs
are isometrically rigid, namely two saddle connection graphs are isometric if
and only if the underlying half-translation surfaces are affine equivalent.
While on the other hand all saddle connections graphs are uniformly
quasi-isometric to the regular countably infinite-valent tree. This talk is
partially based on a joint work with Valentina Disarlo,
Anja Rendecker and Robert Tang.
Dec. 25 2020
- Yan Gao (高延) (Sichuan University)
Time: 10:00-11:00 am (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 690 5359 1120,
Password: 294214)
Title: Boundedness and compactification of
hyperbolic components for Newton maps
Abstract: In complex dynamics, an interesting
question is to determine which kinds of hyperbolic components are bounded in
the moduli space of rational maps. In this talk, we study this problem in a
well-known slice called Newton family. We prove that, in the moduli space of
quartic Newton maps, a hyperbolic component is bounded if and only if it is not
type-IE(immediately escaping); furthermore, the GIT-compactification of each
type-IE hyperbolic component at infinity boundary is either an analytic closed
disk or one point. The proof is based on a convergence theorem of internal rays
we establish for degenerate Newton sequences. This is a joint work with Hongming Nie.
Jan. 1 2021
- Break for New Year
Jan. 8 2021
- Wenbo Li (李文博) (University of Toronto)
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 649 1586 5872, Password: 416250)
Title: Conformal dimension and minimality of
stochastic objects
Abstract: In this talk, we discuss the
conformal dimension of some stochastic objects. The conformal dimension of
a metric space is the infimum of the Hausdorff
dimension of all its quasisymmetric
images. We call a metric space minimal if its conformal dimension
equals its Hausdorff dimension. We begin
with a construction of a graph of a random function which is a.s. minimal. Inspired by this, we apply the same
techniques to the study of 1-dimensional Brownian graphs. The main
tool is the Fuglede modulus. This
is a joint work with Ilia Binder and Hrant Hakobyan.
Jan. 13 2021
- Tim Mesikepp
(University of Washington)
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 649 1586 5872, Password: 416250)
Title:How to weld. Or, towards a unified approach to weldings, driving functions, and energies.
Abstract: How do you conformally weld? That is,
given a welding homeomorphism $\varphi:\mathbb{S}^1 \rightarrow \mathbb{S}^1$, how do you compute the associated conformal
maps? The measurable Riemann mapping theorem provides a non-constructive answer
for quasisymmetric weldings,
but sometimes an explicit approximation is helpful. A beautiful algorithm
developed by Don Marshall and Lennart Carleson in the
early 1980's, called the zipper, provides a numerically robust approach by
composing large numbers of "slit" mappings. We give the first
convergence results for the zipper by shifting the problem from weldings to driving functions. In the process, we also give
some results on minimal-energy curves and, if time permits, draw connections to
universal Teichmuller space. There will be many
pictures and the talk should be widely accessible.
Mar. 24 2021
– Zhe Sun (IHES)
Time: 16:00-17:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 674 1443 0868, Password: 904596)
Title: Surface group representations, tropical points and
webs.
Abstract: Kuperberg introduced oriented 3-valent
graphs on the surface, called 3-webs, to study the SL_3-invariant tensor
products T of irreducible representations of SL_3. Then Kuntson-Tao
found a family of linear inequalities to characterize when T contains an
invariant vector. Let A be a variation of the SL_3 character variety which
generalizes the Penner's decorated Teichmuller space.
Actually, Goncharov--Shen related Kuntson-Tao
inequalities to the positivity of A. On the surface, we identify the space of
3-webs up to homotopy with certain lattice of A mapping
class group equivariantly. As a consequence, as predicted by Fock--Goncharov duality
conjecture, these tropical points parameterize a linear basis of the regular
function ring of the dual space explicitly. This is a joint work with Daniel
Douglas.
Mar. 30 2021 - Suzhen Han (韩素珍) (Peking
University)
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Room 1114, Science Building 1,
Peking University
Title: The proper actions of relatively hyperbolic groups
on finite products of quasi-trees
Abstract: A finitely generated group has property
(QT) if it can act isometrically on a finite product of quasi-trees so that the
orbit map is a quasi-isometric embedding. This notion is introduced by M. Bestvina, K. Bromberg and K. Fujiwara, who also established
such property for residually finite hyperbolic groups and mapping class groups.
In a joint work with H.T. Nguyen and Wenyuan Yang, we
generalize their result for hyperbolic groups, and showed that residually
finite relatively hyperbolic groups have property (QT) if their peripheral
subgroups satisfy some conditions.
April 7 2021
– Hao Liang (梁灏) (Sun Yat-sen University)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 611 5027 7004, Password: 329424)
Title: A factorization theorem for homomorphisms
into Fuchsian groups
Abstract: I will present a factorization
theorem for homomorphisms into Fuchsian groups (discrete subgroups of
the isometry group of the hyperbolic plane). It is a useful tool for
understanding the structure of the collection of all discrete representations
of any fixed finitely generated group G into PSL(2, R). It will also
have some applications in discrete limit groups of PSL(2, R). I will
discuss the background and application of the theorem and the main
idea of the proof.
April 12 2021
– Yusheng Luo (骆宇盛) (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor / Stony Brook University)
Time: 9:00-10:00am (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 677 2262 6461, Password: 304728)
Title: Circle packings, kissing reflection group
and critically fixed anti-rational maps
Abstract: Circle packings appear frequently in the
studies of dynamics, geometry. One can naturally associate a reflection group
to a finite circle packing, generated by reflections along the corresponding
circles. In this talk, we will establish an explicit correspondence between
such reflection groups with anti-holomorphic maps of the Riemann sphere where
all the critical points are fixed. We will explore the correspondence both in
the dynamical plane and the parameter spaces. In particular, we will explain
how the analogue of Thurston’s compactness theorem for acylindrical
hyperbolic 3-manifold holds for critically fixed anti-rational maps.
We will also brief discuss some open questions
motivated by the correspondence.
April 21 2021
– Ma Biao (马彪) (Université de Nice)
Time: 4:00-5:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 821 5134 9008, Password: 370777)
Title: Boundary representations of mapping class
groups
Abstract: Let S = S_g be
a closed orientable surface of genus g > 1 and Mod(S) be the mapping class
group of $S$. In this talk, we show that the boundary representation of Mod(S)
is ergodic, which generalizes the classical result of Masur on ergodicity of
the action of Mod(S) on the projective measured foliation space PMF(S). As a
corollary, we show that the boundary representation of Mod(S) is irreducible.
May 12 2021
– Lizhi Chen (陈立志) (Lanzhou University)
Time: 4:00-5:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 895 8085 2996, Password: 339132)
Title:
Homology and homotopy complexity of manifolds
via systolic geometry
Abstract: We discuss homology and homotopy complexity of manifolds in terms of Gromov’s
systolic inequality. The optimal constant in systolic inequality is usually
called systolic volume. A central theorem in systolic geometry relates systolic
volume to simplicial volume. Since for hyperbolic manifolds there exist
proportionality principle, this theorem builds a bridge between systolic
geometry and hyperbolic geometry. In the talk, we will present some
applications of this theorem to the problem of homology and homotopy
complexity of manifolds.
May 17 2021
– Roland Roeder (Indiana University
– Purdue University Indianapolis)
Time: 9:00-10:00am (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 813 3007 9112, Password: 828437)
Title:
Dynamics of groups of birational automorphisms of cubic surfaces and
Fatou/Julia decomposition for Painlevé 6
Abstract: We study the dynamics of the group of
holomorphic automorphisms of the affine cubic surfaces
S_{A,B,C,D} = {(x,y,z) \in C^3
: x^2 + y^2 + z^2 +xyz = Ax + By+Cz+D},
where A,B,C, and D are complex parameters. It arises naturally in the dynamics on
character varieties and it also describes the monodromy
of the famous Painlevé 6 differential equation. We explore the Fatou/Julia dichotomy for this
group action (defined analogously to the usual definition for iteration of a
single rational map) and also the Locally Discrete / Non-Discrete dichotomy (a
non-linear version from the classical discrete/non-discrete dichotomy for Lie
groups). The interplay between these two dichotomies allow us to prove several
results about the topological dynamics of this group. Moreover, we show the coexistence of
non-empty Fatou sets and Julia sets with non-trivial interior for a large set
of parameters.
This is joint work with Julio Rebelo.
May 26 2021
– Fei Yang (杨飞) (Nanjing University)
Time: 4:00-5:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 884 5933 7010, Password: 684103)
Title: Local
connectivity of the Julia sets with bounded type Siegel disks
Abstract: Let f be a holomorphic map containing an
irrationally indifferent fixed point z0. If f is locally linearizable at z0,
then the maximal linearizable domain containing z0 is called the Siegel disk of f centered at z0. The topology of the boundaries of
Siegel disks has been studied extensively in past 3 decades. This was motivated
by the prediction of Douady and Sullivan that the
Siegel disk of every non-linear rational map is a Jordan domain.
For the topology of whole Julia sets of holomorphic
maps with Siegel disks, the results appear less. Petersen proved that the
quadratic Julia sets with bounded type Siegel disks are locally connected.
Later Yampolsky proved the same result by an
alternative method based on the existence of complex a prior bound of unicritical circle maps. A big progress was made by
Petersen and Zakeri in 2004. They proved that for
almost all rotation numbers, the quadratic Julia sets with Siegel disks are
locally connected. Recently J. Yang proved a striking result that the Julia set
of any polynomial (assumed to be connected) is locally connected at the
boundary points of their bounded type Siegel disks.
As a generalization of Petersen's result, we prove
that the Julia sets of a number of rational maps and transcendental entire
functions with bounded type Siegel disks are locally connected. This is based
on establishing an expanding property of a long iteration of a class of quasi-Blaschke models near the unit circle.
June 9 2021
– Yulan Qing (卿于兰) (Fudan University)
Time: 4:00-5:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 857 3683 8743, Password: 566197)
Title: The
Large scale geometry of big mapping class groups
Abstract: In this talk, we introduce the framework
of the coarse geometry of non-locally compact groups in the setting of big
mapping class groups, as studied by Rosendal. We will
discuss the characterization results of Mann-Rafi and Horbez-Qing-Rafi
that illustrate big mapping groups' rich geometric and algebraic structures. We
will outline the proofs in these results and their implications. If time
permits, we will discuss some open problems in this area.
June 18 2021
– Xiaoguang Wang (王晓光) (Zhejiang University)
Time: 10:00-11:00am (Beijing Time) Location: Room 1560, Science Building 1,
Peking University
Title: Boundaries of capture hyperbolic components
Abstract: In the field of complex dynamics, the
boundaries of higher dimensional hyperbolic components in meaningful families
of polynomals or rational maps are mysterious
topological objects. In this talk, we
discuss some typical families of polynomials, and show that the boundary of a
(high-dimensional) capture hyperbolic component is homeomorphic to the sphere.
More strikingly, the Hausdorff dimension of this
boundary can be given explicitly. This is a joint work with Jie Cao and
Yongcheng Yin.
July 2 2021 –
Gaofei Zhang (张高飞) (Nanjing University)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID:
822 0642 3584, Password: 822747)
Title: On
the local connectivity of the Julia sets of rational maps with bounded type
Siegel disks***
Abstract: In the talk, I will sketch the idea of
the proof of the following result. Suppose
f is a rational map with bounded type Siegel disks such that any infinite
critical orbit intersects either the closure of some bounded type Siegel disk
or the basin of some attracting periodic point.
Suppose additionally the Julia set J(f)
is connected. Then J(f) is locally
connected. This was previously proved
under the assumption that the boundaries of attracting bastions do not
intersect the boundary of any Siegel disk.
September 24 2021 – Jinsong Liu (刘劲松) (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Time: 2:00-3:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Room 77201, Jingchunyuan
78, BICMR, Peking University
Title:
Extensions of quasi-isometries between complex domains***
Abstract: In this talk, by using the
Gehring-Hayman-type theorem on some complex domains. We will give some results
on bi-Holder extensions not only for biholomorphisms,
but also for more general Kobayashi metric quasiisometries
between these domains.
October 28 2021 – Jianyu Chen (陈剑宇) (Soochow
University)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 886 6229 2968,
Password: 733229)
Title:
Inducing schemes with finite weighted complexity
Abstract: We consider a measurable map of a compact
metric space which admits an inducing scheme. Under the finite weighted
complexity condition, we establish a thermodynamic formalism for a parameter
family of potentials $\varphi+t\psi$ in an interval
containing $t=0$. Furthermore, if there is a generating partition
compatible to the inducing scheme, we show that all ergodic invariant measures
with sufficiently large pressure are liftable. Our results are applicable to
the Sinai dispersing billiards with finite horizon, that is, we establish the
equilibrium measures for the family of geometric potentials in a slightly
restricted class. This is a joint work with Fang Wang and Hong-Kun Zhang.
November 9 2021 – Renxing Wan (万仁星) (Peking University)
Time: 3:10-5:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Room 1114, Science Building 1,
Peking University
Title:
Uniform growth in groups of exponential growth
Abstract: This talk is based on two surveys about
the growth of groups by Grigorchuk and de la Harpe. At first, I will briefly introduce some notions and
list known results and open problems. Later, we will focus on some basic
examples including free groups, non-elementary hyperbolic groups, some solvable
groups , mapping class group and so on.
November 26 2021 – Bin Yu (余斌) (Tongji
University)
Time: 3:00-5:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID:
879 8424 0017,
Password: 928052)
Title:
R-covered Anosov flows and freely homotopic
periodic orbits
Abstract: In the last 30 years, by using foliation
theory and group action, Barbot and Fenley developed
a powerful tool to qualitatively understand 3-dimensioanl Anosov
flows. In this seminar talk, we will introduce some basic ideas due to
Fenley in this direction. In particular,
we will explain a significant property discovered by Fenley: every free homotopy class of an
R-covered Anosov flow on a hyperbolic
3-manifold contains infinitely many periodic orbits.
December 3 2021 – Inhyeok Choi (Seoul National University)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID:
871 9276 2553,
Password: 897719)
Title: Limit
laws for random walks on mapping class groups
Abstract: Random walks on groups acting on
non-positively-curved spaces have been studied in depth. Various limiting
behaviors of these random walks, including the positive escape rate, laws of
large numbers and central limit theorems, were known under some geometric assumptions
on the space and the group action. However, the actions of mapping class groups
on Teichmüller spaces and curve complexes do not
satisfy these assumptions, the former one being not Gromov hyperbolic and the
latter one being not locally compact. Nonetheless, recent developments imply
that many limiting behaviors of random walks on mapping class groups follow
directly from the (partial) hyperbolicity of Teichmüller
spaces and curve complexes. In this talk, I will focus on the principle behind
these results and two possible applications: the regularity of the harmonic
measure and the counting problem in mapping class groups. Partially joint with Hyungryul Baik and Dongryul M. Kim.
December 24 2021 – Jinsong Zeng (曾劲松) (Guangzhou University)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID:
875 7470 1894,
Password: 101624)
Title:
Decomposition of rational maps
Abstract: This talk is mainly about the dynamics of
rational maps on the Riemann sphere. We will show that every postcritically
finite rational map with non-empty Fatou set can be decomposed into bubble
rational maps and Sierpinski rational maps. Based on
this theory, an invariant and finite connected graph can be constructed in the
Julia set. This is a joint work with Guizhen Cui and
Yan Gao.
March 12 2022 –
Zhuchao Ji (冀诸超) (Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences)
Time: 2:00-3:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Quanzhai
9, Jingchunyuan 78, BICMR, Peking University
Title: On wandering
domains in higher dimensions
Abstract: See
here.
May 26 2022 –
Tim Mesikepp (University of Washington)
Time: 10:00-11:00am (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID:
826 4953 9587,
Password: 083683)
Title: A
deterministic approach to Loewner-energy minimizers
Abstract: The Loewner
energy is a conformally-invariant functional of curves in the upper half plane
H that has connections to hyperbolic geometry, SLE theory, Teichmuller
theory and geometric function theory. In this talk we study
"one-point" minimizers of Loewner energy,
asking what curves minimize the energy among all which pass through a given point
in H, and what curves minimize the energy among all which weld given points
x<0<y. The former question was partially studied by Yilin Wang, who
used SLE techniques to calculate the minimal energy and show it is uniquely
attained. We revisit the question using a purely deterministic
methodology, however, and re-derive the energy formula and also obtain further
results, such as an explicit computation of the driving function. Our approach
also yields existence and uniqueness of minimizers for the welding question, as
well as an explicit energy formula and explicit driving function. We
discuss parallel properties of both families, such as "universality"
(all curves in either family can be generated by a single driving function),
energy usage, and connections to SLE with forcing.
May 26 2022 –
Jingyin Huang (Ohio State University)
Time: 8:00-9:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID:
860 9860 6310,
Password: 399654)
Title: The non-positive curvature geometry of some
fundamental groups of complex hyperplane arrangement complements
Abstract: A complex hyperplane complement is a
topological space obtained by removing a collection of complex codimension one
affine hyperplanes from C^n (or a convex cone of C^n). Despite the simple definition, these spaces have
highly non-trivial topology. They naturally emerge from the study of real and
complex reflection groups, braid groups and configuration spaces, and Artin groups. More recently, the fundamental groups of some
of these spaces start to play important roles in geometric group theory, though
most of these groups remain rather mysterious. We introduce a geometric way to
understand classes of fundamental groups of some of these spaces, by
equivariantly “thickening” these groups to metric spaces which satisfy a
specific geometric property that is closely related to convexity and
non-positive curvature. We also discuss several algorithmic, geometric and
topological consequences of such a non-positive curvature condition. This is
joint work with D. Osajda.
June 21 2022 –
Fabrizio Bianchi (Université de
Lille)
Time: 4:00-5:00pm (Beijing Time)
Location: Zoom (ID: 823 4284 1727, Password: 366599)
Title: A spectral gap for the transfer operator on complex projective
spaces
Abstract: We study the transfer (Perron-Frobenius)
operator on Pk(C) induced by a generic holomorphic endomorphism and a suitable
continuous weight. We prove the existence of a unique equilibrium state and we
introduce various new invariant functional spaces, including a dynamical
Sobolev space, on which the action of f admits a
spectral gap. This is one of the most desired properties in dynamics. It allows
us to obtain a list of statistical properties for the equilibrium states such
as the equidistribution of points, speed of
convergence, K-mixing, mixing of all orders, exponential mixing, central limit
theorem, Berry-Esseen theorem, local central limit
theorem, almost sure invariant principle, law of iterated logarithms, almost
sure central limit theorem and the large deviation principle. Most of the
results are new even in dimension 1 and in the case of constant weight
function, i.e., for the operator f_*. Our construction of the invariant
functional spaces uses ideas from pluripotential theory and interpolation
between Banach spaces. This is a joint work with Tien-Cuong Dinh.
September 20 2022 – Carlangelo Liverani (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Time: 4:00-5:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Room 77201, Jingchunyuan
78, BICMR, Peking University; Zoom (ID: 812 0977
4828,
Password: 813004)
Abstract: I will discuss some recent and less recent results concerning the
statistical properties of hyperbolic billiards, with particular emphasis on
properties motivated
by fundamental questions in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
October 7 2022 – Wenbo Li (李文博) (Peking University)
Time: 10:30-11:30am (Beijing Time) Location: Room 77201, Jingchunyuan
78, BICMR, Peking University
Abstract: A Hyperbolic space is a metric space whose geodesic triangles are
"thin" and a hyperbolic group is a group whose Cayley graph is
hyperbolic. We focus on the boundary of hyperbolic groups in this talk and go
through topics around two rigidity conjectures: The Cannon Conjecture and the Kapovich-Kleiner Conjecture. Roughly speaking, these two
conjectures ask about whether special topological restrictions on the boundary
of hyperbolic groups will uniquely determine them up to quasisymmetries.
In an effort to answer these questions, many people have studied them from
different approaches. We will go through the work by Bonk and Kleiner. In the
end, we provide our trying on these conjectures. In particular, we have
constructed a special case of metric Sierpinski
carpet, dyadic slit carpets, and completely characterize its planar quasisymmetric embeddability.
October 14 2022 – Xiaolei Wu (伍晓磊) (Fudan University)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Tencent (ID: 522-848-241,
Password: 221014)
Abstract: Asymptotic mapping class groups was introduced by Funar and Kapoudjian. They can be
treated as a generalization of the Thompson groups in the mapping class group
setting. We will discuss how these groups are constructed and show that they
are in fact of type F_infinity. The proof boils down
to prove certain subsurface complexes are highly connected. This is based on
joint work with Javier Aramayona, Kai-Uwe Bux, Jonas Flechsig and Nansen Petrosyan.
October 21 2022 – Ilia Binder (University of Toronto)
Time: 8:00-9:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 870 3163 5732, Password: 955080)
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss recent advances in the computability
of various objects arising in Complex Dynamics and the Theory of Univalent
functions. After a brief introduction to the general Computability Theory, I
will talk about the computation properties of polynomial Julia sets, conformal
maps, and Harmonic measure. Based on joint work with M. Braverman (Princeton),
A. Glucksam (Northwestern), C. Rojas ( Pontificia
Universidad Catolica de Chile), and M. Yampolsky (University of Toronto).
October 27 2022 – Bobo Hua (华波波) (Fudan University)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Tencent (ID: 464-146-395,
Password: 221028)
Abstract: Ollivier introduced a curvature notion
on graphs via the optimal transport, which is a discrete analog of the Ricci
curvature on manifolds. Analytic properties of discrete harmonic functions are
closely related to the Ollivier curvature. We prove
that the number of ends is at most two for an infinite graph with nonnegative Olliver curvature. This is joint work with Florentin Muench.
November 4 2022 – Mariusz Urbański (University of North Texas)
Time: 9:00-10:00am (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 827 6082 3142, Password: 057934)
Abstract: We consider the subclass of class $\mathcal
B$ consisting of meromorphic functions $f\C\to\C$ for which infinity is not an
asymptotic value and whose all poles have orders uniformly bounded from above.
This class was introduced in [BwKo2012] and the Hausdorff
dimension HD(I(f)) of the set I(f) of all points escaping to infinity under
forward iteration of $f$ was estimated therein. In this lecture, based on joint
paper with Volker Mayer, we provide a closed formula for the exact value of
HD(I(f)) identifying it with the critical exponent of the natural series
introduced in [BwKo2012]. This exponent is very easy to calculate for many
concrete functions. In particular, we construct a function from this class
which is of infinite order and for which HD(I(f))=0.
November 25 2022 – Daniel Meyer (University of Liverpool)
Time: 5:00-6:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 838 0851 2867, Password: 686499)
Abstract: Quasisymmetric maps map ratios of
distances in a controlled way. They generalize conformal maps. The quasisymmetric uniformization theorem asks if a certain
metric space is quasisymmetrically equivalent to some
model space. Of particular interest in this context is the question to
characterize quasispheres, i.e., metric spaces that
are quasisymmetrically equivalent to the standard
$2$-sphere. A simple class of fractal spheres are ``snowballs'', which are
topologically $2$-dimensional analogs of the van Koch snowflake curve.
A Thurston map is a topological analog of a rational map (i.e., a
holomorphic self-map of the Riemann sphere). Thurston gave a criterion when
such a map ``is'' rational. Given such a map $f$ that is expanding, we can
equip the sphere with a ``visual metric''. With respect to this metric, the sphere
is a quasisphere if and only if $f$ ``is'' rational.
This is joint work with Mario Bonk (UCLA).
December 2 2022 – Sang-hyun Kim (KIAS)
Time: 3:00-5:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 565 147 0713, Password: 944743)
Abstract: We prove that two compact connected manifolds are homeomorphic
only if their homeomorphism groups are elementarily equivalent, i.e. have
exactly the same set of the true first-order group-theoretic sentences . This
is a work in progress. (Joint with Thomas Koberda and
Javier de la Nuez--Gonzalez).
March 17 2023 – Sylvester Eriksson-Bique (University of Oulu)
Time: 4:30-5:30pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 892 5622
7347,
Password: 094591)
Abstract: What is in common between random or dynamically generated limit
superior sets and boundaries of sets of finite perimeter. In both settings
problems can be reduced to estimating the Hausdorff
content of some set which has a type of self-similarity. We introduce a new
lemma that yields a Hausdorff content lower bound in
both of these settings, and which seems useful in further applications. We
illustrate its usefulness by deriving three well known conclusions from it: the
Federer characterization of sets of finite perimeter, the Hausdorff
dimension of random limit superior sets and the Beresnevitch-Velani
Mass Transference Principle.
April 14 2023 – Insung Park (Brown University)
Time: 10:00-11:00am (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 856 2139
9573,
Password: 111111)
Abstract: The Ahlfors-regular conformal
dimension, ARCdim(X), of a compact metric space X is
the infimal Hausdorff dimension in the Ahlfors-regularly quasi-symmetric class of X. As a fractal
embedded in the Riemann sphere, the Julia set J_f of
a hyperbolic rational map f has Ahlfors-regular
conformal dimension between 1 and 2. We have ARCdim(J_f)=2 iff J_f
is the entire Riemann sphere. The other extreme case ARCdim(J_f)=1, however, contains a variety of Julia sets,
including Julia sets of critically finite polynomials and Newton maps. In this
talk, we show that for a critically finite hyperbolic rational map f, ARCdim(J_f)=1 if and only if
there exists an f-invariant graph G containing all the critical points such
that the topological entropy of the induced dynamics on G is zero. We also show
that for a (possibly non-hyperbolic) critically finite rational map f, ARCdim(X)=1 is attained as the minimal Hausdorff
dimension if and only if f is conjugate to the monomial map z^{\pm} or the
Chebyshev polynomial. This talk is partially based on joint work with Angela
Wu.
April 21 2023 – John Mackay (University of Bristol)
Time: 5:00-6:00pm (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (ID: 859 6470
2961,
Password: 111111)
Abstract: TBC
May 19 2023 – Kevin Pilgrim (Indiana University Bloomington)
Time: TBC (Beijing Time) Location: Zoom (TBC)
Abstract: TBC
TBC – Tim Mesikepp (Peking University)
Time: TBC (Beijing Time) Location: TBC
Abstract: The Loewner Energy is a functional on
Jordan curves that has a surprising array of connections to probability theory,
complex analysis and Teichmuller theory. In this talk we review the background of the
energy in the Loewner equation, survey these
connections, and discuss directions for potential future work.
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