In this talk, I will introduce you to two important classes of symplectic manifolds: toric manifolds, which are equipped with an effective Hamiltonian action of the torus, and Weinstein manifolds, which come with a handle decomposition compatible with its symplectic structure. I will then show you an algorithm which produces the Weinstein handlebody diagram for the complement of a smoothed toric divisor in a "centered" toric 4-manifold. This is based on joint work with Acu, Capovilla-Searle, Gadbled, Marinković, Murphy, and Starkston.

Projective geometry was mainly developed in the 19th century and its combination with algebraic geometry made projective algebraic geometry an important breakthrough in mathematics. In the first part, I will present real projective geometry with some concrete examples. In the second part, I will refer to real enumerative problems, concerning with counting numbers of signed curves in certain real projective spaces, known as Welschinger's invariants.

In this talk we will present motives, techniques and results of a community that has emerged in the 1980s. Econophysicists, as they describe themselves, try to fill the gap between micro and macro economics using techniques from statistical physics. After presenting the techniques used in the community, we will illustrate how their models fit the real world.

A classic problem in statistics is to test whether two populations of observations are similar (i.e. equally distributed). The first tests developed were parametric, it means that we had to make strong assumptions on the underlying distribution, typically Gaussian assumptions. They were also not well-defined for high-dimension (when the number of features exceeds the number of observations). Recently, non-parametric two-sample tests especially designed for high-dimension were developed. I will present a group of such tests very popular in the machine learning community, which takes roots in kernel methods, a branch of non-linear statistics

We study the approximation of multivariate functions on bounded domains with tensor networks (TNs). The main conclusion of this work is an answer to the following two questions that can be seen as different perspectives on the same issue: “What are the approximation capabilities of TNs?” and “What is the mathematical structure of approximation classes of TNs?”

Exotic manifolds are smooth manifolds which are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to each other. Constructing exotic manifolds in dimension four has been an active research area in low dimensional and symplectic topology over the last 30 years. In this talk, we will first discuss major open problems and some recent progress in 4-manifolds theory. Then we will discuss our constructions of exotic 4-manifolds via pencils of complex curves of small genus and via symplectic and smooth surgeries. Some of our results that will be presented are joint with A. Akhmedov.

Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is the deadliest and the most frequent brain tumour, only 5% of patients survive more than 5 years after being diagnosed. Patients go through emergency surgery and are being treated with both chemotherapy (Temozolomide) and radiotherapy. But those treatments still remain inefficient with that cancer because of the cellular heterogeneity. In this work, the goal is to model and simulate the evolution of the tumorigenesis and the therapeutic response of the GBM. Multiple phenomena are modelled: tumour diffusion, chemotaxis, haptotaxis and reaction.

A consequence of Thom Isotopy Lemma is that the set of solutions of a regular smooth equation is stable under C^1-small perturbations (it remains isotopic to the original one), but what happens if the perturbation is just C^0-small? In this case, the topology of the set of solution may change, but it turns out that the Homology groups cannot "decrease". In this talk I will present such result and some related examples and applications. This theorem is useful in those contexts where the price to pay to approximate something in C^1 is higher than in C^0. For instance in the search for quantitative bounds (here the price can be the degree of an algebraic approximation) or in combination with Eliashberg's and Mishachev's holonomic approximation Theorem (which is C^0 at most).

We consider a class of quasi-linear, Hamiltonian Schrödinger equations on the d dimensional torus. We discuss the problem of existence and unicity of classical solutions of the Cauchy problem associated to the equation with initial conditions in the Sobolev space H^s, with s large. We also present results about the lifespan and stability of small solutions. The proofs of such results involves techniques of para-differential calculus combined with normal form theory.

The goal of the talk is to show you a beautiful matrix and then to explain its geometric significance. This will enable me to explain why two rival geometric interpretations of `Reid's recipe' are equivalent. To begin, I'll set the scene by discussing the classical McKay correspondence in dimension two and I'll go on to discuss how this extends naturally to dimension three. I'll introduce Reid's recipe by studying a resolution of C^3 by an action of the cyclic group of order 19 that gives rise to the beautiful matrix. I'll reveal the geometry that this matrix encodes, and as a result, we'll see that two conjectures for certain toric algebras arising in strong theory are equivalent.