ICTS

The first such association was AWM, the Association for Women in Mathematics, established 50 years ago in the USA. National associations and regional associations were established over the ensuing decades: the Australian one, Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group (WIMSIG) of the Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS), WIMSIG established only in 2012. I will speak about links between these associations and the International Mathematical Union, in particular the role of the IMU in acknowledging, including, and promoting women in mathematics.

Community detection has been extensively developed using various algorithms. One of the most powerful algorithms for undirected graphs is Walktrap, which determines the distance between vertices by employing random walk and evaluates clusters using modularity based on vertex degrees. Although several directions have been explored to extend this method to directed graphs, none of them have been effective. In this paper, we investigate the Walktrap algorithm and the spectral method and extend them to directed graphs. We propose a novel approach in which the distance between vertices is defined using hitting time, and modularity is computed based on the stationary distribution of a random walk. These definitions are highly effective, as algorithms for hitting time and stationary distribution have been developed, allowing for good computational complexity. Our proposed method is particularly useful for directed graphs, with the well-known results for undirected graphs being special cases. Additionally, we utilize the spectral method for these problems, and we have implemented our algorithms to demonstrate their plausibility and effectiveness.
 

Consider the Poincar\'e-Sobolev inequality on the hyperbolic space: for every $n \geq 3$ and $1 < p \leq \frac{n+2}{n-2},$ there exists a best constant $S {n,p, \lambda}(\mathbb{B}^{n})>0$ such that \begin{align*} S {n, p, \lambda}(\mathbb{B}^{n})\left(~\int \limits {\mathbb{B}^{n}}|u|^{{p+1}} \, {\rm d}v {\mathbb{B}^n} \right)^{\frac{2}{p+1}} \leq\int \limits {\mathbb{B}^{n}}\left(|\nabla {\mathbb{B}^{n}}u|^{2}-\lambda u^{2}\right) \, {\rm d}v {\mathbb{B}^n}, \end{align*} holds for all $u\in C c^{\infty}(\mathbb{B}^n),$ and $\lambda \leq \frac{(n-1)^2}{4},$ where $\frac{(n-1)^2}{4}$ is the bottom of the $L^2$-spectrum of $-\Delta {\mathbb{B}^n}.$ It is known from the results of Mancini and Sandeep (Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. 7 (4): 635--671, 2008) that under appropriate assumptions on $n,p$ and $\lambda$ there exists an optimizer, unique up to the hyperbolic isometries, attaining the best constant $S {n,p,\lambda}(\mathbb{B}^n).$ In this talk we;ll discuss the quantitative gradient stability of the above inequality and the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations. Our result generalizes the sharp quantitative stability of Sobolev inequality in the Euclidean space of Bianchi and Egnell (J. Funct. Anal. 100 (1): 18--24. 1991), Ciraolo, Figalli and Maggi (Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN (21): 6780--6797, 2018), Figalli and Glaudo (Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal, 237(1): 201--258, 2020) to the Poincar\'{e}-Sobolev inequality on the hyperbolic space.

Numerical studies of random plane waves, functions
$$u=\sum_{j}c_{j}e^{\frac{i}{h}\langle x,\xi_{j}\rangle}$$
where the coefficients $c_{j}$ are chosen ``at random'', have detected an apparent filament structure. The waves appear enhanced along straight lines. There has been significant difference of opinion as to whether this structure is indeed a failure to equidistribute, numerical artefact or an illusion created by the human desire to see patterns. In this talk I will present some recent results that go some way to answering the question. We study the behaviour of a random variable $G(x,\xi)=||P_{(x,\xi)}u||_{L^{2}}$ where $P_{(x,\xi)}$ is a semiclassical localiser at Planck scale around $(x,\xi)$ and show that $G(x,\xi)$ fails to equidistribute. This suggests that the observed filament structure is a configuration space reflection of the phase space concentrations.

In this study, we develop an age-structured compartment model for COVID -19 with an unreported infectious class that describes the spread of COVID-19 in the National Capital Region (NCR) in the Philippines. The epidemiological compartments are divided into three age groups: namely, young (1-19 years), adults (20-64 years), and elderly (65+ years). The reporting and transmission rates are estimated by making use of the numbers of COVID-19 cases in the NCR. Optimal control theory is then employed to identify the best vaccine allocation to the three age groups. Moreover, we consider three different vaccination periods to reflect phases of vaccination priority groups wherein the first, the second, and the third period account for the inoculation of the elderly, adult and elderly, and all three age groups, respectively. This study could guide the policymakers in crafting strategies that can mitigate the spread of an infectious disease by considering age-dependent transmission and limited resources.

In this talk, we consider the 2D incompressible Boussinesq equation without thermal diffusion, and aim to construct rigorous examples of small scale formations as time goes to infinity. In the viscous case, we construct examples of global-in-time smooth solutions where the H^1 norm of density grows to infinity algebraically in time. For the inviscid equation in the strip, we construct examples whose vorticity grows at least like t^3 and gradient of density grows at least like t^2 during the existence of a smooth solution. These growth results work for a broad class of initial data, where we only require certain symmetry and sign conditions. As an application, we also construct solutions to the 3D axisymmetric Euler equation whose velocity has infinite-in-time growth. (joint work with Alexander Kiselev and Jaemin Park)

The zeros of the Riemann zeta-function with real part between 0 and 1 are called nontrivial zeros. We let γn denote the ordinate of the nth nontrivial zero that lies in the upper half-plane. It is a classical result of Rademacher that the sequence of fractional parts {γn} is uniformly distributed modulo one. That is, given a subinterval I of [0,1], the proportion of γn's which satisfy the condition {γn}∈I is approximately the length of the interval, |I|. This talk will be about uniform distribution of a subsequence of ({γn}) modulo one. The result has been recently established in a joint work with Steve Gonek.

Multiple zeta functions have been studied at least since Euler, who found many of their algebraic properties.
In particular, they are greatly developed since the 1980s in several different contexts such as modular forms, mixed Tate motives, quantum groups, moduli spaces of vector bundles, scattering amplitudes, etc.
In this talk, we introduce a combinatorial generalization of the Euler-Zagier type multiple zeta and zeta-star functions, that we call Symmetric multiple zeta functions. These multiple zeta functions are defined as sums over combinatorial objects called semi-standard (marked shifted) Young tableaux, as an analogue of the combinatorial expression of the Symmetric functions.
We will show their properties such as determinant formulas. This is based on a joint work with W. Takeda.

Free boundary problems for the Navier-Stokes equations have a long history. We discuss our recent results for nearly half-space. To obtain global well-posedness of the problem, we establish end-point maximal L^1-regularity for the initial-boundary value problems of the Stokes equations.

``Polynomials and power series
May they forever rule the world.''

Thus begins a poem composed by Shreeram S. Abhyankar in 1970.

Polynomials are introduced at a very early stage in our studies. Yet there are many interesting fundamental problems on polynomial rings which are easy to state but difficult to approach. One such problem is the famous Abhyankar-Sathaye Conjecture which asserts that in characteristic zero, any affine hyperplane in a polynomial ring is a coordinate. An affine line is a coordinate in characteristic zero. This is the well-known Epimorphism Theorem proved by Abhyankar-Moh and Suzuki independently around 1975.

However, the next case, the affine plane case, is still open in general. Some special cases have been considered by Sathaye, Russell, Wright, Kaliman and other mathematicians. In this talk we shall mention known results on epimorphism theorems over rings due to Bhatwadekar and his school. We shall also see some partial generalisations of the results of Sathaye and Russell on linear planes to higher dimensions.
 

The theory of mixed-type equations is one of the principal parts of the general theory of PDEs. The interest in these kinds of equations arises in both theoretical and practical uses of their applications. In this work, I will present a generalization of the Tricomi problem for a loaded mixed-type equation with the Riemann-Liouville fractional differential operator. The existence and uniqueness of the solution to the problem are proved using the theory of integral equations.

In this talk, which is based on a joint work with Juergen Herzog, we describe the rings of invariants of the elementary abelian $p$-group $(Z/pZ)^r$ for $3$-dimensional generic representations. Furthermore we show that these rings are complete intersection rings. This proves a conjecture of Campbell-Shank-Wehlau, which they proved for $r = 3$, and later Pierron-Shank proved for $r = 4$.

We prove some localisation estimates for solution Schrödinger equation corresponding to the sub Laplacian on the Heisenberg group.

Given a holomorphic vector bundle over a compact Riemann surface, we characterize when the Bergman space of holomorphic sections of the restriction of the bundle to an open set is infinite dimensional. This answers a problem raised by Szoke (2020), which was motivated by the results of Carleson and Wiegerinck for planar domains. This is joint work with Anne-Katrin Gallagher and Liz Vivas.

I will start by reviewing quantum groups at roots of unity and their representation theory. Then, I will explain a construction of new quantum groups using cohomology theories from topology. The construction uses the so-called cohomological Hall algebra associated to a quiver and an oriented cohomology theory. In examples, we obtain the Yangian, quantum loop algebra and elliptic quantum group, when the cohomology theories are the cohomology, K-theory, and elliptic cohomology respectively. 

The linearized Navier-Stokes equations, also known as Stokes equations, continue to be studied due to the many interesting applications and also for the rich mathematical theory associated with them. Hence a wide variety of boundary value problems pertaining to Stokes flows have been studied in science and engineering. Many of the results have been obtained for Stokes flows past spherical bodies. However in actual situations, it is more realistic to consider non-spherical shapes. But it may not be easy to find the solutions easily in such boundary value problems. We discuss the general boundary conditions applied to Stokes equations in steady and unsteady flows. In particular, we discuss some simple methods used to solve such boundary value problems in the case of Stokes flows past spherical and non-spherical particles and discuss some interesting results in each case.

The q-analogues of classical functions have been studied in the literature for a long time. In this talk, we discuss the irrationality and linear independence of values of the q-analogue of the exponential function and certain cognate functions. Unlike the classical exponential function, not much is known in this case. The talk will be based on recent joint work with A. Dixit and V. Kumar.