Dr. Christina Glenn is a biostatistician and she will talk about her background, give some tips to land a job in academia and present her current research.
Title: Maximizing the probability of visiting a set infinitely often for a countable state space Markov decision process Abstract: This is a joint work with Tomas Prieto-Rumeau. In this talk, we consider a Markov decision process with countable state space and Borel action space. We are interested in maximizing the probability that the controlled Markov
Title:Â Infinitely many Lagrangian Tori in Milnor fibers constructed via Lagrangian Fillings of Legendrian links Abstract:Â One approach to studying symplectic manifolds with contact boundary is to consider Lagrangian submanifolds with Legendrian boundary; in particular, one can study exact Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian links. There are still many open questions on the spaces of exact Lagrangian fillings
Title:Â The homotopy type of a finite 2-complex with non-minimal Euler characteristic Abstract:Â Two presentations for a group G which have the same deficiency are called exotic if the corresponding presentation complexes are not homotopy equivalent. The first examples of exotic presentations were found by Dunwoody and Metzler in the 1970s but, owing to the difficulty of
Title: Moving surfaces in geometry and physics Abstract: Moving surfaces are ubiquitous in many areas of mathematics and the applied sciences. In this talk I will first introduce some well-known geometric evolution equations, and then proceed to more complicated models that describe the motion of fluids and of materials that can undergo phase transitions.