Seminar

Wave maps are harmonic maps from a Lorentzian domain to a Riemannian target. Like solutions to many energy critical PDE, wave maps can develop singularities where the energy concentrates on arbitrary small scales but the norm stays bounded. Zooming in on these singularities yields a harmonic map (called a soliton or bubble) in the weak limit. One fundamental question is whether this weak limit is unique, that is to say, whether different bubbles may appear as the limit of different sequences of rescalings.

This Fall's new MRC Postdoc James Scott gives his introductional talk.

Many diverse biological systems are described by randomly moving particles that can be captured by traps in their environment. Examples include neurotransmitters diffusing in the synaptic cleft before binding to receptors, the delivery of nanoparticles to targeted receptors, and prey roaming an environment before being captured by predators.

Are you interested in math and possibly want to be a math major or minor? What happens after graduation for math students? Join the meeting and ask one of our panelists: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/141880468