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Notes on harmonic maps between manifolds, existence and regularity covered.

problem Existence and regularity of harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds.
method Lecture-based approach covering harmonic maps, pluriharmonic maps, and related theorems.
result Coverage of existence and regularity of harmonic maps, including Siu-Sampson formula and Donaldson-Corlette theorem.

We give an overview of various counting problems for Apollonian circle packings, which turn out to be related to problems in dynamics and number theory for thin groups. This survey article is an expanded version of my lecture notes prepared for the 13th Takagi lectures given at RIMS, Kyoto in the fall of 2013.

2013-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

These are lecture notes prepared for the summer school "Geometric, algebraic and topological methods in quantum field theory", held in Villa de Leyva in July 2017. Our goal is to provide an introduction to a conjecture of Chern that states that the Euler characteristic of a closed affine manifold vanishes. We present p…

2018-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

LectureBank helps students find the right NLP course sequence.

problem Finding the right NLP course sequence for students with no background.
method Embedding-based method and neural graph-based networks to learn prerequisite relations.
result LectureBank dataset aids in educational and application purposes.

Class lecture notes at a beginning graduate level on the mathematical background needed to understand classical gauge theory. Covers group actions, fiber bundles, principal bundles, connections, gauge transformations, parallel transport, curvature, covariant derivatives, pseudo-riemannian manifolds, lagrangians, cliffo…

1999-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The focus of these lectures is the Gopakumar-Vafa's insight that ``Large N dualities'' (relating gauge theories and closed strings) are realized, in certain cases, by "transition in geometry". In their pivotal 1998 example, the gauge theory is SU(N) Chern-Simons theory on S^3, for large N, and the transition is the "co…

2002-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Karigiannis discusses geometric flows of G2-structures, focusing on existence and uniqueness.

problem Existence and uniqueness of geometric flows of G2-structures.
method Introduced geometric structures, geometric flows, and discussed qualitative features. Focused on Ricci flow and DeTurck trick, then extended to G2-structures.
result Clarified conditions for short-time existence and uniqueness of G2-Laplacian flow.

Quantum state preparation framework speeds up basket option pricing.

problem Limited practical benefit of quantum amplitude estimation due to state-preparation depth.
method Structure-aware tensor-train rank-based variational state preparation.
result State-preparation depth scaling replaced with linear scaling, maintaining low basket-pricing errors.

These are notes for four lectures on higher structures in M-theory as presented at workshops at the Erwin Schroedinger Institute and Tohoku University. The first lecture gives an overview of systems of multiple M5-branes and introduces the relevant mathematical structures underlying a local description of higher gauge …

2016-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This survey is based on a series of five lectures, given May 3--7, 2010, at the Centre de Recerca Matematica, Barcelona. The goal of the lectures was to present aspects of the theory of foliation dynamical systems which have particular importance for the classification of foliations of compact manifolds. The lectures e…

2011-04-26abs ↗pdf ↗

These are lecture notes from a series of lectures at the SMF summer school on "Geometric and Quantum Topology in Dimension 3", June 2014. The focus is on Heegaard Floer homology from the perspective of sutured Floer homology.

2014-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Lectures on topological field theories and differential cohomology.

problem Exploring topological field theories and their connections to differential cohomology.
method Introduction to topological field theory and generalized Abelian gauge theories.
result Explains the relationship between topological field theories and differential cohomology.

Developed predictive models for improving programming course performance.

problem Improving student performance in programming courses.
method Used M5P Decision Tree and Linear Regression Classifier on structured questionnaire data.
result Variable-based LRC model produced the best model with least evaluation metrics.

These are lecture notes mainly aimed at graduate students on selected aspects of generalized geometry: in particular generalized complex and Kaehler structures and generalized holomorphic bundles. They are based on lectures given in March 2010 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

2010-08-05abs ↗pdf ↗

These lecture notes, which were designed for the Summer School "Heegaard-Floer Homology and Khovanov Homology" in Marseilles, 29th May - 2nd June, 2006, provide an elementary introduction to Khovanov homology. The intended audience is graduate students with some minimal background in low-dimensional and algebraic topol…

2006-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

These lecture notes give an introduction to the Kahler-Ricci flow. They are based on lectures given by the authors at the conference "Analytic Aspects of Complex Algebraic Geometry", held at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathematiques in Luminy, in February 2011.

2012-12-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows conventional data prep fails for insurance data, proposing new methods.

problem Challenges in data preparation for insurance data lead to unreliable models.
method Proposes a new data preparation framework using support points and Chatterjee correlation coefficient.
result New methods significantly enhance model robustness and reduce computational resource requirements.

A dataset for evaluating engagement with scientific video lectures.

problem Challenges in managing learning resources due to rapid creation of video lectures.
method Introduction of VLEngagement dataset with content-based and video-specific features, and metrics related to user engagement.
result The largest and most diverse publicly available dataset for understanding context-agnostic engagement in video lectures.

Automated malaria diagnosis from field slides achieves accurate results.

problem Challenges in analyzing field-prepared thin blood film microscopy images.
method Fully automated framework using machine learning, including CNNs trained on diverse field samples.
result Results are close to sufficient for drug resistance monitoring and clinical use-cases.

These notes grew out of a lecture series given at RIMS in the summer of 2001. The lecture series was aimed at a broad audience that included many graduate students. Its purpose lay in familiarizing the audience with the basics of 3-manifold theory and introducing some topics of current research. The first portion of th…

2005-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

In the first of these two lectures, I use a comparison to symplectic Khovanov homology to motivate the idea that the Jones polynomial and Khovanov homology of knots can be defined by counting the solutions of certain elliptic partial differential equations in 4 or 5 dimensions. The second lecture is devoted to a descri…

2016-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗

This is the writeup of a lecture given at the May Wisconsin workshop on mathematical aspects of orbifold string theory. In the first part of this lecture, we review recent work on discrete torsion, and outline how it is currently understood in terms of the B field. In the second part of this lecture, we discuss the rel…

2001-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Lectures on polar actions and their properties in Riemannian geometry.

problem Characterizing polar actions and understanding their properties.
method Analyzing isometric actions on Riemannian manifolds, using normal slice theorem and principal orbit type theorem.
result Characterization of polar actions in terms of integrability of the distribution of normal spaces to the principal orbits.