In this talk, I will give an overview of some of what is known about solutions to the thin obstacle problem, and then move on to a discussion of a higher regularity result on the singular part of the free boundary. This is joint work with Xavier Fernández-Real.
The theory of complex multiplication describes finite abelian extensions of imaginary quadratic number fields using singular moduli, which are special values of modular functions at CM points. I will describe joint work with Henri Darmon in the setting of real quadratic fields, where we construct p-adic analogues of singular moduli through classes of rigid meromorphic cocycles. I will discuss p-adic counterparts for our proposed RM invariants of classical relations between singular moduli and analytic families of Eisenstein series.
In recent works with N. Wickramasekera we develop a regularity and compactness theory for stable hypersurfaces (technically, integral varifolds) whose generalized mean curvature is prescribed by a (smooth enough) function on the ambient Riemannian manifold. I will describe the relevance of the theory to analytic and geometric problems, and describe some GMT and PDE aspects of the proofs.
We give a pseudorandom generator that fools $m$-facet polytopes over $\{0,1\}^n$ with seed length $\mathrm{polylog}(m) \cdot \mathrm{log}(n)$. The previous best seed length had superlinear dependence on $m$. An immediate consequence is a deterministic quasipolynomial time algorithm for approximating the number of solutions to any $\{0,1\}$-integer program. Joint work with Ryan O'Donnell and Rocco Servedio.
Invariant theory is a fundamental subject in mathematics, and is potentially applicable whenever there is symmetry at hand (group actions). In recent years, new problems and conjectures inspired by complexity have come to light. In this talk, I will describe some of these new problems, and discuss some positive and negative results regarding them.