Events for 11/20/2017 from all calendars
Geometry Seminar
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: BLOC 628
Speaker: Zheng Zhang, TAMU
Title: On the moduli space of pairs consisting of a cubic threefold and a hyperplane
Abstract: The period map is a powerful tool for studying moduli spaces, and has been applied successfully to abelian varieties, K3 surfaces, cubic threefolds/fourfolds, and hyper-Kahler manifolds. However, for some interesting moduli problems (e.g. moduli spaces for pairs of varieties) there might be no obvious way to construct periods. Joint with R. Laza and G. Pearlstein, we construct a period map for cubic pairs consisting of a cubic threefold and a hyperplane using a variation of the construction by Allcock, Carlson and Toledo (which allows us to encode a cubic pair as a “lattice polarized” cubic fourfold). The main result is that the period map induces an isomorphism between a GIT model of the moduli of cubic pairs and the Baily-Borel compactification of some locally symmetric domain.
Probability Seminar
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: BLOC 220
Speaker: Jiayan Ye, TAMU
Title: Continuity of cheeger constant in super-critical percolation
Abstract: Abstract: We consider the super-critical bond percolation on $Z^d$ with $d \geq 3$ and $p > p_c(Z^d)$. In particular, we study the subgraphs of $C_{\infty} \cap [-n, n]^d$ with minimal cheeger constant, where $C_{\infty}$ is the unique infinite open cluster on $Z^d$. Recently, Gold proved that the subgraphs converge to a deterministic shape almost surely. We prove that this deterministic shape is Hausdrorff - continuous in the percolation parameter $p$. This is joint work with Eviatar Procaccia.