Seminars in Mathematical Sciences

Seminars in the next week
Jun 12 (Mon)

11:00 Michael Scheutzow [TU Berlin]: Stabilization and synchronization by noise

We discuss the change of stability behavior of deterministic dynamical systems in Euclidean space under the addition of white noise. It is known that noise can have a stabilizing or destabilizing effect depending on the underlying system. We focus on examples of dynamical system in the plane which exhibit blow-up in finite time for all or almost all initial conditions such that for additive noise of arbitrarily small intensity the system has strong stability properties: it is not only stable in the sense that it does not blow up but it even admits a random set attractor. Parts of the talk are based on joint work with Matti Leimbach (Berlin) and Jonathan Mattingly (Duke, Durham), another part on joint work with Franco Flandoli (Pisa) and Benjamin Gess (Bielefeld) and yet another part on joint work with Isabell Vorkastner (Berlin).

Venue: MCS0001

Jun 15 (Thu)

15:00 Michiel van den Berg [Bristol]: On some isoperimetric inequalities for the Newtonian capacity

We obtain some new inequalities for the Newtonian capacity of compact, convex sets in $\mathbb{R}^d, d \geq 3$. Joint work with A. Malchiodi and D. Bucur.

Venue: MCS2068


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Upcoming Seminars by Series
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• Amplitudes and Correlators

Contact: arthur.lipstein@durham.ac.uk

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• Analysis and PDE

Usual Venue: MCS2068

Contact: alpar.meszaros@durham.ac.uk

Jun 15 15:00 Michiel van den Berg [Bristol]: On some isoperimetric inequalities for the Newtonian capacity

We obtain some new inequalities for the Newtonian capacity of compact, convex sets in $\mathbb{R}^d, d \geq 3$. Joint work with A. Malchiodi and D. Bucur.
• Applied Mathematics

Usual Venue: MCS2052

Contact: andrew.krause@durham.ac.uk

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• Arithmetic Study Group

Usual Venue: MCS2068

Contact: alexander.mangerel@durham.ac.uk

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• CPT Colloquium

Usual Venue: OC218

Contact: p.e.dorey@durham.ac.uk

For more information, see HERE.


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• CPT Student

Contact: hugo.fortin@durham.ac.uk

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• Department Research Colloquium

Usual Venue: MCS0001

Contact: inaki.garcia-etxebarria@durham.ac.uk,sunil.chhita@durham.ac.uk

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• Distinguished and Public Lectures

Usual Venue: MCS0001

Contact: p.e.dorey@durham.ac.uk

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• Ergodic Theory and Dynamics

Usual Venue: MCS3070

Contact: gabriel.fuhrmann@durham.ac.uk

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• Geometry and Topology

Usual Venue: MCS3070

Contact: martin.p.kerin@durham.ac.uk

Recordings of past seminars can be found HERE.


Oct 19 13:00 Anthea Monod [Imperial]: TBA

• HEP Journal Club

Usual Venue: MCS3070

Contact: andrea.grigoletto@durham.ac.uk,nakarin.lohitsiri@durham.ac.uk

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• HEP Lunchtime

Usual Venue: MCS0001

Contact: silvia.nagy@durham.ac.uk,ana.retore@durham.ac.uk

The talks will be held in person in MCS2068 and streamed on zoom for those who cannot attend (see abstract for link).


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• Probability

Usual Venue: MCS2068

Contact: kohei.suzuki@durham.ac.uk

Jun 12 11:00 Michael Scheutzow [TU Berlin]: Stabilization and synchronization by noise

We discuss the change of stability behavior of deterministic dynamical systems in Euclidean space under the addition of white noise. It is known that noise can have a stabilizing or destabilizing effect depending on the underlying system. We focus on examples of dynamical system in the plane which exhibit blow-up in finite time for all or almost all initial conditions such that for additive noise of arbitrarily small intensity the system has strong stability properties: it is not only stable in the sense that it does not blow up but it even admits a random set attractor. Parts of the talk are based on joint work with Matti Leimbach (Berlin) and Jonathan Mattingly (Duke, Durham), another part on joint work with Franco Flandoli (Pisa) and Benjamin Gess (Bielefeld) and yet another part on joint work with Isabell Vorkastner (Berlin).

Jun 20 14:00 Neil O’Connell [University College Dublin]: A Markov chain on reverse plane partitions

I will discuss a natural Markov chain on reverse plane partitions which is closely related to the Toda lattice.
• Pure Maths Colloquium

Usual Venue: MCS0001

Contact: raphael.zentner@durham.ac.uk

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• Spectra and Moduli

Usual Venue: MCS3070

Contact: michael.r.magee@durham.ac.uk

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• Statistics

Usual Venue: MCS2068

Contact: hyeyoung.maeng@durham.ac.uk,andrew.iskauskas@durham.ac.uk

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• Stats4Grads

Contact: samuel.r.emerson@durham.ac.uk

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