Seminar

Mixed-platonic 3-manifolds: at the interface of algebra, combinatorics, and (hyperbolic) geometry

I'll introduce a class of cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds that we call mixed-platonic, composed of regular ideal hyperbolic polyhedra of more than one type. For reasons I'll give in the talk, we are interested in such manifolds that are complements of knots in the three-sphere. One such "knot complement" has been known for some time to fit this description; whether there are any more is an open question.

Γ-Convergence and Asymptotic Analyses for a Diffuse Domain Problem with Transmission-Type Boundary Conditions

Diffuse domain methods (DDMs) have attracted significant attention for approximating solutions to partial differential equations on complex geometries in two and three dimensions. These methods implicitly represent the geometry by replacing the sharp boundary interface with a diffuse layer of thickness $\epsilon$. We will define and consider both one-sided and two-sided versions of the problem. For the one-sided case, this approach reformulates the original equations on an extended, regular domain (for example, a hyper-cuboid).