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I will describe an approach to studying the Kakeya maximal function in high dimensions via the Guth--Katz polynomial partitioning method. Although the approach does not currently produce better bounds than the record set by Katz--Tao, it is rather flexible, provides a lot of interesting structural information and gives rise to some interesting algebraic/geometric problems.

Motivated by some classical results of Meyer, Pichorides and Zygmund, we present a variant of Yano's extrapolation theorem for analytic Hardy spaces over the torus. Some related questions will also be discussed.

We consider the gravity water waves system with a periodic one-dimensional interface in infinite depth, and prove a rigorous reduction of these equations to Birkhoff normal form up to degree four. This prove a conjecture of Zakharov-Dyachenko based on the formal Birkhoff integrability of the waver waves Hamiltonian truncated at order four. As a consequence, we also obtain a long-time stability result: periodic perturbations of a flat interface that are of size ε in a sufficiently smooth Sobolev space lead to solutions that remain regular and small up to times of order $\epsilon^{−3}$.

First I will describe a new pseudodifferential calculus for (pseudo-)Riemannian spaces, which in our opinion (my, D.Siemssen's and A.Latosiński's) is the most appropriate way to study operators on such a manifold. I will briefly describe its applications to computations of the asymptotics the heat kernel and Green's operator on RIemannian manifolds. Then I will discuss analogous applications to Lorentzian manifolds, relevant for QFT on curved spaces. I will mention an intriguing question of the self-adjointness of the Klein-Gordon operator. I will describe the construction of the (distinguished) Feynman propagator on asymptotically static spacetimes. I will show how our pseudodifferential calculus can be used to compute the full asymptotics around the diagonal of various inverses and bisolutions of the Klein-Gordon operator.

14h, Peter Topalov : On the group of almost periodic diffeomorphisms and its exponential map

We define the group of almost periodic diffeomorphisms on the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{R}^n$. We then study the properties of its Riemannian and Lie group exponential map and provide applications to fluid dynamics.

15h, Alexei Iantchenko : Semiclassical inverse problems for elastic surface waves in isotropic media

We carry out a semiclassical analysis of surface waves in Earth which is stratified near its boundary at some scale comparable to the wave length.

Propagation of such waves is governed by effective Hamiltonians which are non-homogeneous principal symbols of some pseudodifferential operators. Each Hamiltonian is identified with an eigenvalue in the discreet spectrum of a locally 1D Schr{\"o}dinger-like operator on the one hand, and generates a flow identified with surface wave bicharacteristics in the two-dimensional boundary on the other hand.

The eigenvalues exist under certain assumptions reflecting that wave speeds near the boundary are smaller than in the deep interior. This assumption is naturally satisfied by the structure of Earth's crust and mantle.

Using these Hamiltonians, we obtain pseudodifferential surface wave equations. In case of isotropic medium the equations decouple into Rayleigh and Love waves. In both cases we perform a comprehensive analysis of the recovery of the S-wavespeed from the semiclassical spectrum.

The approach follows the ideas of Colin de Verdière on acoustic surface waves and is joint work with Maarten V. de Hoop, Jian Zhai, Rice University, and Gen Nakamura, Hokkaido University

9h François Nicoleau, 10h10 Miloslav Znojil, 11h00 Thierry Ramond

14h David Krejcirik, 15h10 Joe Viola, 16h10 Michael Levitin