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Caucher Birkar — from Asylum Seeker to Fields Medal Winner at Cambridge
MATHS, 1 Caucher Birkar, 41, at VERSION Cambridge University, photographed by Jude Edginton REPR O OP HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE ASYLUM SEEKER SUBS WHO WANDERED INTO A BRITISH UNIVERSITY... A RT AND CAME OUT A MATHS SUPERSTAR? PR ODUCTION CLIENT Caucher Birkar grew up in a Kurdish peasant family in a war zone and arrived in Nottingham as a refugee – now he has received the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel prize. By Tom Whipple BLACK YELLOW MAGENTA CYAN 91TTM1940232.pgs 01.04.2019 17:39 MATHS, 2 VERSION ineteen years ago, the mathematics Caucher Birkar in Isfahan, Receiving the Fields Medal If that makes sense, congratulations: you department at the University of Iran, in 1999 in Rio de Janeiro, 2018 now have a very hazy understanding of Nottingham received an email algebraic geometry. This is the field that from an asylum seeker who Birkar works in. wanted to talk to someone about The problem with explaining maths is REPR algebraic geometry. not, or at least not always, the stupidity of his They replied and invited him in. listeners. It is more fundamental than that: O OP N So it was that, shortly afterwards, it is language. Mathematics is not designed Caucher Birkar, the 21-year-old to be described in words. It is designed to be son of a Kurdish peasant family, described in mathematics. This is the great stood in front of Ivan Fesenko, a professor at triumph of the subject. It was why a Kurdish Nottingham, and began speaking in broken asylum seeker with bad English could convince SUBS English. -
Birational Geometry of Algebraic Varieties
Proc. Int. Cong. of Math. – 2018 Rio de Janeiro, Vol. 1 (563–588) BIRATIONAL GEOMETRY OF ALGEBRAIC VARIETIES Caucher Birkar 1 Introduction This is a report on some of the main developments in birational geometry in recent years focusing on the minimal model program, Fano varieties, singularities and related topics, in characteristic zero. This is not a comprehensive survey of all advances in birational geometry, e.g. we will not touch upon the positive characteristic case which is a very active area of research. We will work over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic zero. Varieties are all quasi-projective. Birational geometry, with the so-called minimal model program at its core, aims to classify algebraic varieties up to birational isomorphism by identifying “nice” elements in each birational class and then classifying such elements, e.g study their moduli spaces. Two varieties are birational if they contain isomorphic open subsets. In dimension one, a nice element in a birational class is simply a smooth and projective element. In higher dimension though there are infinitely many such elements in each class, so picking a rep- resentative is a very challenging problem. Before going any further lets introduce the canonical divisor. 1.1 Canonical divisor. To understand a variety X one studies subvarieties and sheaves on it. Subvarieties of codimension one and their linear combinations, that is, divisors play a crucial role. Of particular importance is the canonical divisor KX . When X is smooth this is the divisor (class) whose associated sheaf OX (KX ) is the canonical sheaf !X := det ΩX where ΩX is the sheaf of regular differential forms. -
Interview with Mikio Sato
Interview with Mikio Sato Mikio Sato is a mathematician of great depth and originality. He was born in Japan in 1928 and re- ceived his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1963. He was a professor at Osaka University and the University of Tokyo before moving to the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS) at Ky- oto University in 1970. He served as the director of RIMS from 1987 to 1991. He is now a professor emeritus at Kyoto University. Among Sato’s many honors are the Asahi Prize of Science (1969), the Japan Academy Prize (1976), the Person of Cultural Merit Award of the Japanese Education Ministry (1984), the Fujiwara Prize (1987), the Schock Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1997), and the Wolf Prize (2003). This interview was conducted in August 1990 by the late Emmanuel Andronikof; a brief account of his life appears in the sidebar. Sato’s contributions to mathematics are described in the article “Mikio Sato, a visionary of mathematics” by Pierre Schapira, in this issue of the Notices. Andronikof prepared the interview transcript, which was edited by Andrea D’Agnolo of the Univer- sità degli Studi di Padova. Masaki Kashiwara of RIMS and Tetsuji Miwa of Kyoto University helped in various ways, including checking the interview text and assembling the list of papers by Sato. The Notices gratefully acknowledges all of these contributions. —Allyn Jackson Learning Mathematics in Post-War Japan When I entered the middle school in Tokyo in Andronikof: What was it like, learning mathemat- 1941, I was already lagging behind: in Japan, the ics in post-war Japan? school year starts in early April, and I was born in Sato: You know, there is a saying that goes like late April 1928. -
Tate Receives 2010 Abel Prize
Tate Receives 2010 Abel Prize The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters John Tate is a prime architect of this has awarded the Abel Prize for 2010 to John development. Torrence Tate, University of Texas at Austin, Tate’s 1950 thesis on Fourier analy- for “his vast and lasting impact on the theory of sis in number fields paved the way numbers.” The Abel Prize recognizes contributions for the modern theory of automor- of extraordinary depth and influence to the math- phic forms and their L-functions. ematical sciences and has been awarded annually He revolutionized global class field since 2003. It carries a cash award of 6,000,000 theory with Emil Artin, using novel Norwegian kroner (approximately US$1 million). techniques of group cohomology. John Tate received the Abel Prize from His Majesty With Jonathan Lubin, he recast local King Harald at an award ceremony in Oslo, Norway, class field theory by the ingenious on May 25, 2010. use of formal groups. Tate’s invention of rigid analytic spaces spawned the John Tate Biographical Sketch whole field of rigid analytic geometry. John Torrence Tate was born on March 13, 1925, He found a p-adic analogue of Hodge theory, now in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received his B.A. in called Hodge-Tate theory, which has blossomed mathematics from Harvard University in 1946 and into another central technique of modern algebraic his Ph.D. in 1950 from Princeton University under number theory. the direction of Emil Artin. He was affiliated with A wealth of further essential mathematical ideas Princeton University from 1950 to 1953 and with and constructions were initiated by Tate, includ- Columbia University from 1953 to 1954. -
Panchadik2010
Konkani Association of California panchadik 2010 (May – August) Copyright © 2010 Konkani Association of California (KAOCA) All rights reserved. Table of Contents 1. President’s Corner.……………………………………………………. 3 2. Kidz Korner.………………………………………………………………. 5 3. History of Saraswat Migrations.….……………………………. 12 4. Hoon Khabbar……………………………………………………………. 21 5. Do you know our Amchis?...…………………………………….. 24 6. Konkani Bytes……………………………………………………………. 27 Copyright © 2010 Konkani Association of California (KAOCA) 2 All rights reserved. 1. President's Corner Namaskaru, Wishing you and your family a very happy Ganesh Chaturthi! May Lord Ganapathi bless you all with good luck and prosperity! Continuing on our success of Ugadi, we hosted the following events- Talent Day: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Talent day event organized at Milpitas Teen Center on May 23rd, 2010. We had several events such as Card Game (Turup), chess, Carom, Table Tennis, Wii, Basketball hoops and cooking contest. In addition we had an art and poetry showcase clubbed with the event. Several of the community members participated and enjoyed this event. We also had a food drive for Second Harvest food bank during this event and we would like to thank everyone who donated. Annual Picnic: KAOCA’s annual picnic was held on 28th August at Central Park, Santa Clara. The day-long event with fun activities and food was attended by over 150 Konkanis. Kids and adults alike enjoyed the fun and cozy setting in Central Park. The day started with a friendly cricket match. The kids enjoyed the inflatable jumps and the popcorn. The food served was an Indianized version of the Chipotle bowl. The afternoon activities included games for both adults and kids. -
Karwar F-Register As on 31-03-2019
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Arxiv:1609.05543V2 [Math.AG] 1 Dec 2020 Ewrs Aovreis One Aiis Iersystem Linear Families, Bounded Varieties, Program
Singularities of linear systems and boundedness of Fano varieties Caucher Birkar Abstract. We study log canonical thresholds (also called global log canonical threshold or α-invariant) of R-linear systems. We prove existence of positive lower bounds in different settings, in particular, proving a conjecture of Ambro. We then show that the Borisov- Alexeev-Borisov conjecture holds, that is, given a natural number d and a positive real number ǫ, the set of Fano varieties of dimension d with ǫ-log canonical singularities forms a bounded family. This implies that birational automorphism groups of rationally connected varieties are Jordan which in particular answers a question of Serre. Next we show that if the log canonical threshold of the anti-canonical system of a Fano variety is at most one, then it is computed by some divisor, answering a question of Tian in this case. Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Preliminaries 9 2.1. Divisors 9 2.2. Pairs and singularities 10 2.4. Fano pairs 10 2.5. Minimal models, Mori fibre spaces, and MMP 10 2.6. Plt pairs 11 2.8. Bounded families of pairs 12 2.9. Effective birationality and birational boundedness 12 2.12. Complements 12 2.14. From bounds on lc thresholds to boundedness of varieties 13 2.16. Sequences of blowups 13 2.18. Analytic pairs and analytic neighbourhoods of algebraic singularities 14 2.19. Etale´ morphisms 15 2.22. Toric varieties and toric MMP 15 arXiv:1609.05543v2 [math.AG] 1 Dec 2020 2.23. Bounded small modifications 15 2.25. Semi-ample divisors 16 3. -
Number-Theory Prodigy Among Winners of Coveted Maths Prize Fields Medals Awarded to Researchers in Number Theory, Geometry and Differential Equations
NEWS IN FOCUS nature means these states are resistant to topological states. But in 2017, Andrei Bernevig, Bernevig and his colleagues also used their change, and thus stable to temperature fluctua- a physicist at Princeton University in New Jersey, method to create a new topological catalogue. tions and physical distortion — features that and Ashvin Vishwanath, at Harvard University His team used the Inorganic Crystal Structure could make them useful in devices. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, separately pio- Database, filtering its 184,270 materials to find Physicists have been investigating one class, neered approaches6,7 that speed up the process. 5,797 “high-quality” topological materials. The known as topological insulators, since the prop- The techniques use algorithms to sort materi- researchers plan to add the ability to check a erty was first seen experimentally in 2D in a thin als automatically into material’s topology, and certain related fea- sheet of mercury telluride4 in 2007 and in 3D in “It’s up to databases on the basis tures, to the popular Bilbao Crystallographic bismuth antimony a year later5. Topological insu- experimentalists of their chemistry and Server. A third group — including Vishwa- lators consist mostly of insulating material, yet to uncover properties that result nath — also found hundreds of topological their surfaces are great conductors. And because new exciting from symmetries in materials. currents on the surface can be controlled using physical their structure. The Experimentalists have their work cut out. magnetic fields, physicists think the materials phenomena.” symmetries can be Researchers will be able to comb the databases could find uses in energy-efficient ‘spintronic’ used to predict how to find new topological materials to explore. -
Public Recognition and Media Coverage of Mathematical Achievements
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Volume 9 | Issue 2 July 2019 Public Recognition and Media Coverage of Mathematical Achievements Juan Matías Sepulcre University of Alicante Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Mathematics Commons Recommended Citation Sepulcre, J. "Public Recognition and Media Coverage of Mathematical Achievements," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 9 Issue 2 (July 2019), pages 93-129. DOI: 10.5642/ jhummath.201902.08 . Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol9/iss2/8 ©2019 by the authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. JHM is an open access bi-annual journal sponsored by the Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences and published by the Claremont Colleges Library | ISSN 2159-8118 | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/ The editorial staff of JHM works hard to make sure the scholarship disseminated in JHM is accurate and upholds professional ethical guidelines. However the views and opinions expressed in each published manuscript belong exclusively to the individual contributor(s). The publisher and the editors do not endorse or accept responsibility for them. See https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/policies.html for more information. Public Recognition and Media Coverage of Mathematical Achievements Juan Matías Sepulcre Department of Mathematics, University of Alicante, Alicante, SPAIN [email protected] Synopsis This report aims to convince readers that there are clear indications that society is increasingly taking a greater interest in science and particularly in mathemat- ics, and thus society in general has come to recognise, through different awards, privileges, and distinctions, the work of many mathematicians. -
Uttara Kannada.Xlsx
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Elliptic Curves and Modularity
Elliptic curves and modularity Manami Roy Fordham University July 30, 2021 PRiME (Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience) Manami Roy Elliptic curves and modularity Outline elliptic curves reduction of elliptic curves over finite fields the modularity theorem with an explicit example some applications of the modularity theorem generalization the modularity theorem Elliptic curves Elliptic curves Over Q, we can write an elliptic curve E as 2 3 2 E : y + a1xy + a3y = x + a2x + a4x + a6 or more commonly E : y 2 = x3 + Ax + B 3 2 where ai ; A; B 2 Q and ∆(E) = −16(4A + 27B ) 6= 0. ∆(E) is called the discriminant of E. The conductor NE of a rational elliptic curve is a product of the form Y fp NE = p : pj∆ Example The elliptic curve E : y 2 = x3 − 432x + 8208 12 12 has discriminant ∆ = −2 · 3 · 11 and conductor NE = 11. A minimal model of E is 2 3 2 Emin : y + y = x − x with discriminant ∆min = −11. Example Elliptic curves of finite fields 2 3 2 E : y + y = x − x over F113 Elliptic curves of finite fields Let us consider E~ : y 2 + y = x3 − x2 ¯ ¯ ¯ over the finite field of p elements Fp = Z=pZ = f0; 1; 2 ··· ; p − 1g. ~ Specifically, we consider the solution of E over Fp. Let ~ 2 2 3 2 #E(Fp) = 1 + #f(x; y) 2 Fp : y + y ≡ x − x (mod p)g and ~ ap(E) = p + 1 − #E(Fp): Elliptic curves of finite fields E~ : y 2 − y = x3 − x2 ~ ~ p #E(Fp) ap(E) = p + 1 − #E(Fp) 2 5 −2 3 5 −1 5 5 1 7 10 −2 13 10 4 . -
THÔNG TIN TOÁN HỌC Tháng 7 Năm 2008 Tập 12 Số 2
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