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Translation surfaces given by gluing two identical tori along a slit have genus two and two cone-type singularities of angle $4\pi$. There is a distinguished set of trajectories called saddle connections that are the straight lines trajectories...

Filmed in Canada, Iran, and the United States, Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani examines the life and mathematical work of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian immigrant to the United States who became a superstar in her...

Process calculus is a family of related approaches to formally model concurrent systems, e.g. Pi-calculus which pass channels as data along other channels; Ambient calculus which models distributed and mobile computations. Rho Calculus (Reflective...

We prove the last open case of the conjecture on the possible values of the first isotropy index of an anisotropic quadratic form over a field. It was initially stated by Detlev Hoffmann for fields of characteristic not 2 and then extended to...

Classical results of Dobrushin and Lanford-Ruelle establish, in rough terms, that for a local energy function on a subshift without too much long-range order, the translation-invariant Gibbs measures are precisely the equilibrium measures. There are...

A variety of cut-and-paste techniques is being developed to study Khovanov, Heegaard Floer and instanton homologies. We will describe one of such techniques, centered around immersed curves in surfaces. First, we will give an overview of existing...

Until very recently most cancer biologists operated with the assumption that the most common route to metastasis involved cells of the primary tumor transforming to a motile single-cell phenotype via complete EMT (the epithelial-mesenchymal...

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In this talk we introduce Microlinear Lawvere theories, and show that differential objects in cartesian tangent categories are an example. One of the more striking applications of this theory is that every tangent category embeds into the Eilenberg...

I will introduce deformations of lattice cohomology corresponding to the knot homologies found by Ozsváth, Stipsicz and Szabó in https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.1795. If time permits I will show that by means of holomorphic triangles counting, one can...