Starting with the pioneering works of Jean Bellissard in the 1980’s, Non-Commutative Geometry has emerged as one of sharpest tools in the arsenal of a theoretical materials scientist. Perhaps for this audience, the most important questions are why Non-Commutative Geometry and how much of it? Using well understood examples, where specially designed materials display extraordinary behaviours in extreme conditions, I will try to convince the audience that one has to walk the entire sequence: algebra of observables → K-theory →pairing with cyclic cohomology → local index formula, plus one additional step which I call “pushing into the Sobolev.” Furthermore, among such extraordinary behaviours is a certain relation between the dynamics of degrees of freedominside the bulk and at the boundary of a sample, dubbed the bulk-boundary correspondence principle. It is captured by a certain extension of C*-algebras and, as such, KK-theory offers a natural framework and supplies the necessary tools to investigate such phenomena. If the time permits, I will also discuss recent efforts trying to steer these tools from their usual use of explaining observed behaviours towards the discovery of new dynamical behaviours in materials science.
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We give an introduction to topos theory from a geometric point of view, focusing on toposes that arise from a discrete group acting on a topological space. In particular, we will look at lattices over a global field, and see how the topos classifying them is related to the ring of finite adeles of the global field. In the case where the class group is trivial, this topos is equivalently described as a topos of presheaves on a monoid, leading to toposes that are analogous to (the underlying topos) of the Arithmetic Site of Connes and Consani. We then discuss how the different toposes are related to each other. Are there interesting geometric morphisms between them? When are these morphisms embeddings, or local homeomorphisms? The talk is based on joint work in progress with Morgan Rogers and joint work in progress with Aurélien Sagnier.
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The idea of assigning weights to local coordinate functions appears in many areas of mathematics, such as singularity theory, microlocal analysis, sub-Riemannian geometry, or the theory of hypo-elliptic operators, under various terminologies. In this talk, I will describe some differential-geometric aspects of weightings along submanifolds. This includes a coordinate-free definition, and the construction of weighted normal bundles and weighted deformation spaces. As an application, I will discuss the osculating tangent bundle for Lie filtrations, and the corresponding tangent groupoid of Choi-Ponge, van Erp-Yuncken, and Haj-Higson. (Based on joint work with Yiannis Loizides.)
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