Notiziario Scientifico

Settimana dal 23 al 29 marzo 2015


Lunedì 23 marzo 2015
Ore 14:30, aula di Consiglio
Seminario di Analisi Matematica
Graziano Crasta (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Geometric problems related to the inhomogeneous infinity Laplace equation
We discuss some recent results related to the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the infinity Laplace equation with constant source in a bounded domain. We characterize the geometry of domains for which an overdetermined problem admits a viscosity solution. An essential tool is a regularity result for viscosity solutions in convex domains, obtained by the convex envelope method introduced by Alvarez, Lasry and Lions. Based on some recent joint works with Ilaria Fragalà (Politecnico di Milano).


Martedì 24 marzo 2015
Ore 10:30, aula riunioni (secondo piano), IAC-CNR (via dei Taurini 19)
Seminario di Matematica Applicata
Sean McGinty (University Strathclyde)
Diffusion and dissolution models for drug-delivery systems
The study of drug/device combinations for controlled drug release has gained significant momentum in recent years and is responsible for considerable global research budgets across academia and Industry. In this talk, I will discuss my group's research in this area which includes modelling drug release from polymer-coated and nanoporous drug delivery devices, coupling drug release with tissue absorption, and parameter estimation methods. The mechanisms of drug release typically include diffusion, dissolution and in some cases a combination of both. Within the tissue, convection, diffusion and reaction typically occur simultaneously. We adopt a three-pronged approach to tackle these problems, making use of analytical, numerical and experimental techniques.


Martedì 24 marzo 2015
Ore 14:00, aula di Consiglio
J. Juyumaya (Universidad de Valparaiso)
Knot invariants from the Yokonuma-Hecke algebras
In this talk we define invariants for classical knots, singular knots and framed knots. These invariant are constructed by using the Yokonuma-Hecke algebras in the Jones recipe.


Martedì 24 marzo 2015
Ore 14:00, aula B
Metodi matematici per le teorie cinetiche
Sergio Simonella (WIAS Berlin)
Il programma di Grad in Teorie Cinetiche. Teorema di Lanford
Le numerose obiezioni sollevate, sin dagli inizi, contro la teoria Boltzmann del gas rarefatto, diffusero dubbi sulla possibilità di derivare matematicamente l'equazione dalle leggi di Newton. Solo nel 1974 Oscar Lanford pose fine a tali controversie dimostrando, in particolare, che l'irreversibilità del sistema macroscopico è deducibile da una dinamica microscopica reversibile. In questo seminario enuncerò il celebre risultato e illustrerò in qualche dettaglio la strategia della prova. Ne discuterò poi i limiti e i relativi problemi tuttora aperti.


Martedì 24 marzo 2015
Ore 14:30, aula 211, Università di Roma Tre
Seminario di Geometria
Andrea Fanelli (Imperial College)
Effective Matsusaka for surfaces in positive characteristic
The problem of determining an effective bound on the multiple which makes an ample divisor D on a smooth variety X very ample is natural and many results are known in characteristic zero. In this talk I will discuss this problem on surfaces in positive characteristic, giving a complete solution in this setting. Our strategy requires an ad hoc study of pathological surfaces, on which Kodaira-type theorems can fail. A Fujita-type theorem and a vanishing result for big and nef divisors on pathological surfaces will also be discussed. This is a joint work with Gabriele Di Cerbo.


Martedì 24 marzo 2015
Ore 14:30, aula Dal Passo, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Seminario di Equazioni Differenziali
Enrico Serra (Politecnico di Torino)
NLS ground states on metric graphs
We investigate the existence of ground states for the subcritical NLS energy on metric graphs. In particular, we describe a sufficient condition for the existence of ground states and a topological assumption that prevents existence. In order to obtain the results, we introduce a new rearrangement technique, adapted to the graph where it applies. Owing to such a technique, the energy level of the rearranged function is improved byconveniently mixing the symmetric and monotone rearrangement procedures.


Martedì 24 marzo 2015
Ore 14:30, aula 311, Università di Roma Tre
Seminario di Fisica Matematica
Margherita Disertori (HCM Bonn)
Some results on history dependent stochastic processes
Edge reinforced random walk (ERRW) and vertex reinforced jump processes (VRJP) are history dependent stochastic processes, where the particle tends to come back more often on sites it has already visited in the past. For a particular scheme of reinforcement these processes are random walks in random environment (mixing of reversible Markov chains) whose mixing measure can be related to a non-linear sigma model introduced in the context of random matrix models for quantum diffusion. I will give an overview on these models and explain some recent results.


Martedì 24 marzo 2015
Ore 15:00, aula di Consiglio
Seminario di Modellistica Differenziale Numerica
Maria Lopez Fernandez (GSSI)
Time-stepping methods for wave scattering problems
We consider the numerical approximation of retarded potentials arising in wave scattering problems. For the temporal approximation we consider a generalization of Lubich's Convolution Quadrature which allows for variable steps. The algorithmic realization of the new method relies on contour integral techniques in the complex plane. Numerical experiments are provided to show the potential of our approach.


Mercoledì 25 marzo 2015
Ore 14:00, aula G
Elena Kosygina (Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center)
Excited random walks in Markovian cookie environments on Z
We consider a nearest-neighbor random walk on Z whose probability w(x,n) to jump to the right from site x depends not only on x but also on the number of prior visits n to x. The collection (w(x, n)) is sometimes called the "cookie environment" due to the following informal interpretation. Upon each visit to a site the walker eats a cookie from the cookie stack at that site and chooses the probability to jump to the right according to the "flavour" of the cookie eaten.Assume that the cookie stacks are i.i.d. and that only the first M cookies in each stack may have "flavour". All other cookies are assumed to be "plain", i.e. after their consumption the walker makes unbiased steps to one of its neighbours. The "flavours" of the first M cookies within the stack can be different and dependent. We discuss recurrence/transience, ballisticity, and limit theorems for such walks. The talk is based on joint works with Dolgopyat (University of Mary-land), Mountford, Zerner.


Mercoledì 25 marzo 2015
Seminario di Algebra e Geometria
Ore 14:30, aula di Consiglio
Frederic Patras (Université de Sophia-Antipolis)
B structures and finite topologies
Models (simplicial, cellular...) of topological spaces are usually equipped with various operations: products, dualities, cohomological operations, and so on. One can also consider topological spaces from another point of view: instead of looking at the internal structure of each space, one can consider their collective structure. In the particular case of finite spaces, they are in bijection with quasi-orders, and it is natural to investigate their linear span using techniques of algebraic combinatorics. New operations and structure theorems arise from this point of view, as well as connexions with Hopf algebras such as the one of quasi-symmetric functions. Joint work with L. Foissy and C. Malvenuto.


Mercoledì 25 marzo 2015
Ore 14:30, aula Dal Passo, Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Andrej Dymov (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of crystals in medium.
Investigation of the energy transport in crystals is one of the main problems in the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Since it turns out to be extremely difficult, usually one studies toy models, possessing additional ergodic properties. A common idea is to consider a Hamiltonian system of particles where each mode is a subject to stochastic perturbation. Clearly, it is important to study the case when the perturbation goes to zero. In this talk I will discuss dynamics of a system of weakly interacting oscillators, where each oscillator is weakly coupled with its own stochastic Langevin thermostat. The system can be interpreted as a crystal plugged in medium and weakly interacting with it. I will prove that, under the limit when the couplings of oscillators with each other and with the thermostats go to zero with some precise scaling, behavior of the system is governed by an effective equation which is a rather nice dissipative SDE. I will show that under the limit above, dynamics of the energy satisfies laws, which resemble the Fourier law and the Green-Kubo formula (but which are not the F. law and the G.-K. formula).


Mercoledì 25 marzo 2015
Ore 15:00, aula Picone
Sportello Matematico per l'Industria Italiana: la Matematica in Rete per l'Innovazione e la Società
Interventi introduttivi:
Emanuele Caglioti (Direttore del Dipartimento di Matematica G. Castelnuovo)
Corrado Mascia (Referente per lo Sportello Matematico)
Come nasce lo Sportello Matematico, Roberto Natalini (Direttore IAC-CNR e Co-fondatore dello Sportello Matematico)
Come funziona lo Sportello Matematico, Antonino Sgalambro (IAC-CNR e Coordinatore dello Sportello Matematico)
Esperienze di successo: il caso CrestOptics,
Vincenzo Ricco (Presidente CrestOptics srl)
Raino Ceccarelli (CrestOptics srl)
Vittoria Bruni (Dipartimento SBAI Sapienza e IAC-CNR)
Il ruolo del Traduttore Tecnologico, Maurizio Ceseri e Anna Melchiori (Team dello Sportello Matematico)
Dibattito


Giovedì 26 marzo 2015
Seminario P(n): problemi differenziali non lineari
Ore 14:00, aula di Consiglio
Rainer Mandel (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Minimal energy solutions and bifurcation results for a weakly coupled nonlinear Schrödinger system


Giovedì 26 marzo 2015
Seminari Formulas
Ore 14:30, aula Zorzi, Università di Roma Tre
Valerio Talamanca (Università di Roma Tre)
Origami e numeri costruibili
Dopo un brevissimo sommario sui numeri costruibili con riga e compasso, tratteremo in qualche dettaglio i numeri costruibili tramite origami. Un numero, (algebrico totalmente reale) si dice costruibile per origami se è possibile ottenerlo come lunghezza di un segmento ottenuto attraverso piegamenti (ammissibili) dal segmento unitario. Faremo vedere esplicitamente come costruire la radice cubica di 2 (o di qualsiasi altro numero intero), attraverso il quadrato di Beloch.


Giovedì 26 marzo 2015
Seminario di Geometria
Ore 14:45, aula 211, Università di Roma Tre
Ruadhai Dervan (Cambridge University)
K-stability of finite covers
A conjecture of Yau, Tian and Donaldson is that the existence of a canonical Kahler metric on an ample line bundle L over projective variety X should be equivalent to K-stability, an algebro-geometric notion which is closely related to Geometry Invariant Theory. However, K-stability is understood in very few specific cases. Given a K-stable Fano variety X, we show that certain finite covers of X are also K-stable, giving algebro-geometric proofs of K-stability in several new examples.


Giovedì 26 marzo 2015
Seminario di Geometria
Ore 15:00, aula 1B1, dipartimento SBAI
Marco Buratti (Università di Perugia)
Sistemi di cicli hamiltoniani e i loro gruppi di automorfismi


Giovedì 26 marzo 2015
Workshop Proofs and Types, 25 years later
aula Verra, Università di Roma Tre
15:30 Wagner de Campos Sanz (Universidade de Goia's) TBA
16:15 Giulio Guerrieri (Université Paris VII) Injectivity of relational semantics for connected MELL proof-structures via Taylor expansion
17:15 Jean Fichot (IHPST, Université Paris I) May Falsum be true?


Giovedì 26 marzo 2015
Seminario di Geometria
Ore 16:00, aula 211, Università di Roma Tre
Michele Bolognesi (Université de Renne I)
Pfaffian Cubic Fourfolds and non-trivial Brauer Classes
In this talk I will showcase a general class of smooth rational cubic fourfolds X containing a plane whose associated quadric surface bundle does not have a rational section. Equivalently, the Brauer class B of the even Clifford algebra over the discriminant cover (a K3 surface S of degree 2) associated to the quadric bundle, is nontrivial. These fourfolds provide nontrivial examples verifying Kuznetsov's conjecture on the rationality of cubic fourfolds containing a plane. I will then explore the connections between this construction and the existence of one-apparent-double-point surfaces inside the cubic 4fold.


Venerdì 27 marzo 2015
Workshop Proofs and Types, 25 years later
aula Verra, Università di Roma Tre
09:00 Jean-Yves Girard (Université Aix-Marseille) La suprenante syntaxe transcendantale du calcul des predicats
15:30 Pierre-Louis Curien (Université Paris VII) Curry-Howard correspondence, abstract machines, sequent calculus, and classical logic
16:15 Jean-Baptiste Joinet (Université Lyon 3) On the primitive distinction Individual/Predicate
17:15 Pierre Livet (Université Aix-Marseille) Epistemic circularity: self-justification versus self-application; meaning as the source of use or computational functioning as the regulation of impredicativity?


Venerdì 27 marzo 2015
Seminario di Logica e Geometria della Cognizione
Ore 11:30, aula 311, Università di Roma Tre
Paolo Pistone (Università di Roma Tre e Université Aix-Marseille)
Dimostrazioni e tipi nella logica del secondo ordine II
Saranno esaminate alcune forme di "circolarità" che appaiono nella teoria della dimostrazione della logica del secondo ordine e della sua controparte costruttiva, il Sistema F. Queste circolarità, o "circoli viziosi" (Poincaré 1906), saranno analizzate sulla base della distinzione tra due punti di vista corrispondenti a metodologie distinte e irriducibili (a causa dei teoremi di incompletezza): il primo ("le pourquoi", Girard 2000) è focalizzato sulla questione della coerenza e dell'Hauptsatz e richiede dei metodi di dimostrazione infinitari (ovvero non elementari). Il secondo ("le comment", Girard 2000) è focalizzato sul contenuto computazionale e combinatorio delle dimostrazioni, dato dalla corrispondenza tra prove e programmi, e non richiede che metodi elementari di dimostrazione. Questa distinzione metodologica permette di mettere in luce nel dettaglio le limitazioni epistemologiche cui va incontro la logica del secondo ordine: cosa può essere deciso in modo elementare, ovvero con certezza? cosa invece non può mai essere stabilito al di la' di ogni ragionevole dubbio?


Venerdì 26 marzo 2015
Seminari MoMa
Ore 12:00, aula di Consiglio
Davide Bigoni (Università di Trento)
Strange equilibria of elastic rods: elastic arm scale, torsional gun, and the dripping of the Euler's elastica
The problem of an elastic rod deforming in a plane, namely the so-called "planar elastica", has a long history, rooting to Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705), Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782), Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), and Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692-1761), but is still actual and rich of applications, sometimes unexpected. The elastica has attracted a great interest in the past and has involved contributions from first-class scientists, including Kirchhoff, Love, and Born. The research on the elastica marked the initiation of the calculus of variations and promoted the development of the theory of elliptic functions. Nowadays the elastica represents a useful introduction to the theory of nonlinear bifurcation and stability, but is also an important tool in the field of soft robotics and in the design of compliant mechanisms. Moreover, the elastica can be effectively used to explain snake or fish locomotion and to design snake-like robots. In this talk, the theory of a planar, nonlinear elastic rod developed by Euler is used to present new phenomena in which nonlinearities (related to the fact that equilibrium of the rod is reached at large displacements) play a fundamental role.


Venerdì 27 marzo 2015
Ore 14:00, aula B
Metodi matematici per le teorie cinetiche
Umberto Montemagno (Sapienza Università di Roma)
L'espansione di Hilbert e applicazioni
Nel seminario sarà discussa l'applicazione della tecnica dell’espansione di Hilbert al limite idrodinamico, per tempi piccoli, dell'equazione di Boltzmann verso l'equazione di Eulero. L'approccio iniziale consisterà nello scrivere la serie formale nel parametro perturbativo e, risolvendo ricorsivamente equazioni lineari, si ricostruirà la struttura dei termini di ordine più basso. Lo studio di particolari proprietà dell'operatore di collisione linearizzato permetterà di giustificare l'approccio iniziale.


Venerdì 27 marzo 2015
Ore 15:00, aula INdAM
Seminario Control, Dynamics & PDEs
Elena Kosygina (Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center)
On the connection between homogenization of some stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations and large deviations of diffusions with random drift in a random potential
The connection mentioned in the title is well-known (see, for example, A.S. Sznitman, Brownian motion in a Poissonian potential, 1993, PTRF). The goal of the talk is to review some necessary facts from large deviations theory and explain that this connection is actually an equivalence.


Venerdì 28 marzo 2015
Workshop Proofs and Types, 25 years later
aula Verra, Università di Roma Tre
09:30 Alain Lecomte (Université Paris VIII) Ludics and philosophy of language: from literal meaning to dialogue modeling
10:30 Marco Pedicini (Università Roma Tre) Sequential and parallel abstract machines for optimal reduction
11:15 Vito Michele Abrusci (Università Roma Tre) Logic, first-order logic, second-order logic in Hilbert's logical school (1920-1940): some historical remarks.


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