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GT Seminar

Speakers:
Fereshteh Malek  (Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology)

Title:

Quasi Contact Metric Manifolds
Description:

In this talk quasi contact metric manifolds are considered. Quasi contact metric manifolds are odd dimensional analogues of quasi Kahler manifolds, they appear on hypersurfaces of quasi Kahler manifolds.
Date &
Time:
2017/12/20, 15:30--17:00
Location: 
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
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GT Seminar

Speakers:
Mahdi Khajeh Salehani  (University of Tehran)

Title:

Controllability on Infinite-dimensional Manifolds
Description:

One of the fundamental problems in control theory is that of controllability, the question of whether one can drive the system from one point to another with a given class of controls. A classic result in control theory of finite-dimensional systems is Rashevsky-Chow's theorem that gives a sufficient condition for controllability on any connected manifold of finite dimension. This result was proved independently and almost simultaneously by Rashevsky (1938) and Chow (1939). In this seminar, following the unified approach of A. Kriegl and P.W. Michor (1997) for a treatment of global analysis on a class of locally convex spaces known as convenient, we give a generalization of Rashevsky-Chow's theorem for control systems in regular connected manifolds modeled on convenient (infinite-dimensional) locally convex spaces which are not necessarily normable. This is a joint work with Irina Markina.
Date &
Time:
2017/12/13, 15:30--17:00
Location: 
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
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GT Seminar

Speakers:
Razieh Ahmadian  (IPM)

Title:

An Invitation to Toroidalization Problem
Description:

Toroidal varieties and their morphisms were introduced and developed by Kempf, Knudsen, Mumford and Saint-Donat in 1973, in order to prove the Semistable Reduction Theorem (simplifying a singular fiber of a morphism of complex varieties). Since then they have been successfully applied to various problems concerning the resolution of singularities and factorization of morphisms. Among them is the Problem of Toroidalization which is concerned with obtaining a toroidal lifting of a given morphism f: X to Y of algebraic varieties by performing sequences of blow-ups of non-singular sub-varieties above X and Y. The purpose of this talk is to introduce this problem and the results obtained so far.
Date &
Time:
2017/11/29, 15:30--17:00
Location: 
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
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GT Seminar

Speakers:
Abbas Fakhari  (Shahid Beheshti University and IPM)

Title:

A Mechanism for Ergodicity of Higher Dimensional Expanding Actions
Description:

Here, I want to provide a general mechanism for ergodicity of higher dimensional expanding actions. Our method is based on creating rich number of generators for which the action induced on the flag manifold is minimal. More precisely, it is proved that for any n-dimensional manifold M​, there are 22n-1​​ different types of locally expanding generators whose existence guarantee ergodicity of the action.
Date &
Time:
2017/11/15, 15:30--17:00
Location: 
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
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GT Seminar

Speakers:
Majid Narimannejad  (IPM)

Title:

On Jones Polynomial and Geometry
Description:

The connection between the geometry of knot complement and Jones polynomial or related quantum invariants has been a major problem in quantum topology. The famous conjectures like the Volume conjecture and the Slope conjecture predict that the hyperbolic geometry and the topology of surfaces in knot complement are closely related to colored Jones polynomials. Here we will focus on the connection between Jones polynomial and the topology of essential knot surfaces. In this lecture after a quick overview, we will talk about the problem of fiber detection of state surfaces of a knot diagram and its relation to Jones polynomial.
Date &
Time:
2017/11/8, 15:30--17:00
Location: 
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
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GT Seminar

Speakers:
Eaman Eftekhary  (IPM)

Title:

Gauge theory and foliations
Description:

Homogeneous foliations are easily classified via techniques that have been available for more than 30 years. The classification links such foliations to flat connections with values in the Lie algebra of the symmetry group. Classification of general foliations is far more difficult and attracted efforts of many mathematicians. The purpose of this talk is to show how a similar approach may be used to study (concordance classes of) arbitrary foliations of codimension 1, as the gauge equivalence classes of flat connections with values in smooth functions on real numbers. The talk is based on joint work with Mehrzad Ajoodanian
Date &
Time:
2017/11/1, 15:30--17:00
Location: 
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
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GT Seminar

Speakers:
Mahdi Yazdi  (Oxford University)

Title:

On Thurston's Euler class one conjecture
Description:

In 1976, Thurston proved that taut foliations on closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds have Euler class of norm at most one, and conjectured that, conversely, any Euler class with norm equal to one is Euler class of a taut foliation. We construct counterexamples to this conjecture and suggest an alternative conjecture.
Date &
Time:
2017/9/3, 14:00--15:30
Location: 
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
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GT Seminar

Speakers:
Mehrzad Ajoodanian  (Kelardasht U.)

Title:

Gauge theory, Quantization and Foliations
Description:

We borrow ideas from gauge theory and deformation quantization to study smooth codimension one foliations.

Date &
Time:
2017/8/16, 11:00--12:30
Location: 
Lecture Hall 2,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
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Thematic Program on Dynamical Systems
School of Mathematics, IPM
February-May, 2017


Courses and seminars:     

        Jan 31 - March 8, 2017;
        April 4 - May 18, 2017.






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Poster

Workshop and Conference in Dynamical Systems,
School of Mathematics, IPM
May 20-23, 2017











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Poster

Mini Course

Speaker:
Fabien Durand (Univ. Picardie, France)
Title: Cobham’s theorem and substitution subshifts

Description:

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Date &
Time:
May 20-23, 2017, 9:30--10:45

Location:
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
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Mini Course

Speaker:
Alejandro Kocsard (UFF, Brazil)

Title: Cocycles over hyperbolic dynamical systems, group actions and random walks on manifolds

Description:

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Date &
Time:
Tuesday, May 16, 2017, 15:00--16:15
Tuesday, May 16, 2017, 16:45--18:00
Thursday, May 18, 2017, 15:00--16:15
Thursday, May 18, 2017, 16:45--18:00

Location:
Lecture Hall 2,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
Poster

Mini Course

Speaker:
Pierre Berger (CNRS & Univ. Paris XII)

Title: Emergence and paradynamics

Description:

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Date &
Time:
Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 11:30--13:00
Thursday, May 11, 2017, 11:30--13:00

Location:
Lecture Hall 2,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
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Mini Course

Speaker:
Peyman Eslami (University of Warwick)

Title: Two approaches for the quantitative study of chaotic dynamical systems

Description:

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Date &
Time:
Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 9:30--11:00
Thursday, May 11, 2017, 9:30--11:00

Location:
Lecture Hall 2,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
Poster

p-adic Aspects of Automorphic Forms
Spring School and International Conference

IPM and Sharif University of Technology
April 20 - May 4, 2017

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Organizers:
P. Kassaei (King's College, UK)
F. Shahidi (Purdue University, USA)
J. Tilouine (Université Paris 13)
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Mini Course

Speaker:
Omid Hatami (IPM)

Title: A quick introduction to Ergodic Theoretic and Analytic aspects of Additive Combinatorics

Description:

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Date &
Time:
Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 9:30--10:50
Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 11:10--12:30
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 9:30--10:50
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 11:10--12:30

Location:
Lecture Hall 2,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
Poster

Mini Course

Speaker:
Stefano Luzzatto (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)

Title: Young Towers and Sinai-Ruelle-Bowen measures for non-uniformly hyperbolic surface diffeomorphisms

Description:

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Date &
Time:
Wednesday, April 12, 2017, 9:30--10:30
Wednesday, April 12, 2017, 11:00--12:00
Thursday, April 13, 2017, 9:30--10:30
Thursday, April 13, 2017, 11:00--12:00

Location:
Lecture Hall 2,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
Poster

Spring Meeting on Algebraic Geometry
School of Mathematics, IPM
April 8-13, 2017


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Speakers:
Omran Ahmadi (IPM)
Sjoerd Beentjes (University of Edinburgh)
Roya Beheshti  (Washington University St. Louis)
Shahram Biglari (IPM)
Amael Broustet (Université de Lille 1)
Alessandro Chiodo  (University of Paris 6)
Kento Fujita (RIMS, Kyoto University)
Frederic Mangolte (University of Angers)
Laurent Manivel (CNRS, Inst. Math. Marseille)
Yuri Prokhorov (Steklov Math. Inst. & LAG, Higher School of Economics, Russia)
Iman Setayesh (Tarbiat Modares Univ.)
Francesco Zucconi (University of Udine)
Organizers:
Hamid Ahmadinezhad
Eaman Eftekhary
Behrang Noohi
Miles Reid
Location: Lecture Hall 1,
School of Mathematics, IPM,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
Registration:
Please fill out the registration form and
send it to gt@ipm.ir with the subject "AG".


Mini Course

Speaker:
Andres Koropecki
(Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)

Title: Prime ends and rotation numbers in two-dimensional dynamics

Description:

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Date &
Time:
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, 11:00--12:15
Wednesday, March 1, 2017, 11:00--12:15
Tuesday, March 7, 2017, 11:00--12:15
Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 11:00--12:30

Location: 
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
Poster

Mini Course

Speakers:
Lorenzo J. Díaz  (PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Katrin Gelfert  (UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Title:

Ergodic Aspects of Partially Hyperbolic Diffeomorphisms
Description:

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Date &
Time:
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, 15:30--17:00
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, 10:30--12:00
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, 14:00--15:30
Tuesday, March 7, 2017, 9:30--10:45
Tuesday, March 7, 2017, 14:00--15:30
Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 15:30--17:00

Location: 
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
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GT Seminar

Speaker:     
Xiaochuan Liu (IMPA, Brazil)

Title: Rotation Theory for Minimal Diffeomorphisms on Two Torus

Abstract:
Franks-Misiurewicz Conjecture has several sub-cases, while some of the cases were proved, one case was disproved by Avila. Based on the construction of Avila, we give an example, for which, pointwise rotation number is not well defined for Lebesgue almost every point. This is a joint work with A. Avila and D. Xu

Date & Time:
Wednesday, March 1, 2017, 15:30--17:00
Location: 
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran



Mini Course

Speaker:
Ali Tahzibi  
(ICMC - University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil)

Title: Random walk on the group of matrices and diffeomorphisms:
a dynamical point of view

Description:

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Date &
Time:
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, 9:30--10:45
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, 14:00--15:30
Wednesday, March 1, 2017, 9:30--10:45

Location: 
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
Poster

Mathematics Colloquium

Speaker:

Mark Pollicott (University of Warwick)
Title: Apollonian circles and packings

Description:

Over 2000 years ago, the mathematician Apollonius began the study of families of circle in the plane which are mutually tangent. Repeating his construction leads to the famous Apollonian circle packing, an example of a fractal set. More recently, they have been the subject of renewed interest by princesses, Nobel Laureates and others, but many interesting problems remain.

Date &
Time:
Wednesday, February 15, 2017,
16:30 - 17:30

Venue:
Lecture Hall 1, IPM Niavaran Building, Niavaran Square, Tehran


School on Ergodic theory and Dynamical Systems
Tarbiat Modares University
February 13-17, 2017


The school consists of two mini-courses by
Mark Pollicott and David Burguet.
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Poster

GT Seminar

Speaker:

Andres Navas  (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)
Title: On a geometric property of quasi-periodic tilings.

Description:

Roughly, a Delone set is the set of vertices of a tiling using pieces that "do not degenerate" in form. Formally, it is a uniformly separated and coarsely dense subset of the plane.

A natural question raised by Gromov and Furstenberg was answered in the negative by Burago-Kleiner and McMullen: there exist Delone sets that are not bi-Lipschitz equivalent to the standard lattice. In this talk, we will show that such sets can be even made "repetitive", which means that they are the vertices of a quasi-periodic tiling. Nevertheless, we will see that this cannot be the case for "Isfahan like tilings" (as the Penrose one): for all of these, there are even bi-Lipschitz homeomorphisms of the plane sending the Delone set into the standard lattice.

Date &
Time:
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, 15:30-17:00

Location:
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran


Mini Course

Speaker:
Andres Navas  (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)

Title:

Some simple results and questions concerning cohomology of dynamical systems

Description:

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Date &
Time:
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, 9:30--10:45
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, 11:00--12:15
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, 9:30--10:45
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, 11:00--12:15

Location: 
Lecture Hall 2,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
Poster

Mini Course

Speakers:
Sebastian Baader (University of Bern)
Marius Huber (University of Bern)

Title: Plane algebraic curves, positive braids and Heegaard Floer homology

Description:

The main purpose of this course is to study isolated singularities of plane algebraic curves by knot theoretical methods.

In the first lecture, we explain the dichotomy between simple and non-simple singularities, which is based on the difference between the topological and analytical equivalence of singularities. We will prove that all singularities of multiplicity two are simple, and give an easy example of a non-simple singularity of multiplicity four.

In the second lecture, we discuss links associated with isolated singularities of plane curves, and, more generally, positive braid links. As we will see, the links associated with simple singularities can be characterized as prime positive braid links which admit a positive definite Seifert form.

The third lecture focuses on the canonical fibre surface of positive braid links. In particular, we will see how these surfaces can be constructed by an operation called positive Hopf plumbing. This provides a simple description of their monodromies.

The fourth lecture will be a research talk by Marius Huber on the Floer homology of positive fibred Pretzel knots. These admit an even simpler Hopf plumbing structure than positive braid knots. We describe a pair of mutant knots of this type that cannot be distinguished by the hat version of Floer homology. Moreover, we give a conjectural picture on the Floer homology that implies mutation invariance for this class of knots.

Date &
Time:
Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, 14:00-15:30
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, 15:30-17:00
Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, 14:00-15:30,
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, 14:00-15:30

Location:
Lecture Hall 1,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran


Mini Course

Speakers:
Dawoud Ahmadi Dastjerdi  (University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran)
Maryam Hosseini  (IPM, Tehran, Iran)

Title:

An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics
Description:

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Date &
Time:
Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, 9:30--12:30
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, 9:30--12:30
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, 9:30--12:30

Location: 
Lecture Hall 2,
IPM Niavaran Building,
Niavaran Square, Tehran
Poster
School of Mathematics,
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Email: gt@ipm.ir