Departmental Colloquium
Nolan Schock and Liet Vo
UIC
Two RAP talks
Abstract: Generalizations of Combinatorial Hodge Theory and Gromov-Witten Theory
June Huh was recently awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the development of ``Combinatorial Hodge Theory,'' allowing one to use techniques of algebraic geometry to solve a number of long-standing conjectures in combinatorics. Gromov-Witten Theory was developed in the 1990s as a tool for counting curves on algebraic varieties using ideas inspired by physics. I will describe how one might ambitiously hope to use generalizations of Combinatorial Hodge Theory to develop higher-dimensional generalizations of Gromov-Witten Theory. (No prior knowledge of either of these topics will be necessary.)
Numerical methods for stochastic Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations
Navier-Stokes and Stokes equations are one of the most well-known equations in fluid
mechanics because of their broad applications. In this colloquium, I will introduce the stochastic
versions of these equations. It is well-known that the stochastic Navier-Stokes and Stokes equations
are used for a better understanding of turbulence and also thermodynamic fluctuations present in
fluid flows. We will focus on the numerical methods to solve the stochastic Navier-Stokes and Stokes
equations. I will introduce the two popular methods that are Euler-Maruyama-mixed finite element
method and Chorin projection method for solving these equations. For each case, error estimates
are also addressed and analyzed.
Friday September 9, 2022 at 3:00 PM in TBA