Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis

# Lectures, seminars and dissertations

* Dates within the next 7 days are marked by a star.

Prof. Daniele Boffi (Università di Pavia, Aalto University)
Finite element approximation of resonant modes for the Maxwell cavity problem
* Tuesday 26 September 2017,   15:00,   M1 (M232)
The resonant modes of time harmonic Maxwell equations can be identified with the eigensolutions of a problem represented by a variational formulation in mixed form. In this talk we review the finite element approximation of eigenvalue problems arising from partial differential equations. In particular, it will be shown that the analysis of mixed problems differs significantly from that of standard Galerkin formulations. We will show how these results can be applied to the a priori analysis of Maxwell's eigenvalue problem and we will give some indications on how the a posteriori analysis can be performed
Colloquim

Esko Heinonen (University of Helsinki)
Existence and non-existence results for minimal graphic and p-harmonic functions
* Wednesday 27 September 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
In the Euclidean space, by the celebrated result due to Bombieri, De Giorgi, and Miranda, all positive entire solutions of the minimal graph equation are constant. It turns out that on Riemannian manifolds similar results can be obtained for solutions with at most linear growth if the manifold has only one end and asymptotically non-negative sectional curvature. In this talk I will discuss about recent results concerning the existence and non-existence of entire minimal graphic and p-harmonic functions. Talk is based on joint work with Jean-Baptiste Casteras and Ilkka Holopainen.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Thomas Singer (Aalto)
Existence of variational solutions in non-cylindrical domains
Friday 29 September 2017,   14:15,   Kumpula Exactum C124
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Timo Hänninen (HY)
Two-weight Lp-Lq bounds for positive dyadic operators in the case 0
Friday 29 September 2017,   15:15,   Kumpula Exactum C124
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Juha Videman (Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lissabon)
TBA
Wednesday 04 October 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Mateus Sousa (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro)
Existence for Fourier restriction on hyperboloids
Thursday 05 October 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
In this talk we present some results about existence, as well as non existence, of extremizers for the adjoint Fourier restriction estimate on hyperboloids. We will discuss the Lorentz symmetries of the problem and the concentration-compactness arguments involved in the proofs, as well as connections to the Klein-Gordon equation.

Kristian Moring (Diplomityöesitelmä)
TBA
Thursday 05 October 2017,   15:15,   M3 (M234)

Galia Dafni (Concordia University)
TBA
Wednesday 11 October 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Stavros Evdoridis
TBA
Wednesday 18 October 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Dmitry A. Trotsenko (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics)
TBA
Wednesday 25 October 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Giancarlo Pastor (Aalto University)
TBA
Monday 30 October 2017,   15:15,   M237
Further information
Aalto Stochastics & Statistics Seminar

Prof. Lothar Nannen (TU Wien)
Numerical methods for resonance problems in open systems
Tuesday 31 October 2017,   15:00,   U1
Colloquim

Alessandro Mancuso
TBA
Tuesday 14 November 2017,   11:15,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Edoardo Tosoni
TBA
Tuesday 14 November 2017,   11:40,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Vilma Virasjoki
TBA
Tuesday 14 November 2017,   12:15,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Prof. Kari Astala (Helsinki University, Aalto University)
TBA
Tuesday 28 November 2017,   15:00,   U1
Colloquim

Matias Heikkilä
TBA
Tuesday 12 December 2017,   11:15,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Joona Karjalainen
TBA
Tuesday 12 December 2017,   11:40,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Alex Karrila
TBA
Tuesday 12 December 2017,   12:15,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

## Past events

Lauri Harhanen (KaVo Kerr), Antti Huhtala (SSF), Saara Hyvönen (DAIN Studios), Mika Juntunen (KONE), Juho Könnö (Wärtsilä), Otto Seiskari (IndoorAtlas), Stratos Staboulis (Eniram)
Sovelletut matemaatikot teollisuudessa
Thursday 21 September 2017,   14:00,   U6, Otakaari 1

Jeff Lindquist (University of California, LA)
Weak capacity in Ahlfors regular metric spaces
Wednesday 20 September 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
We construct and use a hyperbolic filling of a $Q$-regular compact doubling metric space $Z$ to define the notion of the weak $p$-capacity between appropriate subsets of $Z$. This notion extends modulus and is preserved up to constants by quasisymmetric maps. We explore some applications involving Ahlfors regular conformal dimension and quasisymmetric uniformization of metric 2-spheres.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Tuomo Tiilikainen
Lämpöyhtälön keskiarvoperiaate/Diplomityöesitelmä
Wednesday 13 September 2017,   15:15,   M2 (M233)

Ilmari Kangasniemi (University of Helsinki)
Cohomological behavior of uniformly quasiregular mappings
Wednesday 13 September 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Based on a joint work with Pekka Pankka. Given a uniformly quasiregular map f on a closed oriented Riemannian manifold, it turns out that all the complex eigenvalues of the induced pull-back map f* in real singular cohomology have a modulus of (deg f)^(k/n), and moreover the induced cohomological map is complex diagonalizable. This can be exploited to obtain limitations on the possible degrees of uniformly quasiregular maps on closed manifolds. The talk goes over some basics and context regarding uniformly quasiregular mappings, and presents the main ideas behind the proofs of the aforementioned results.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

D.Sc (Tech) Antti Punkka
Teaching demonstration: Pareto-optimality in solving multicriteria optimization problems
Friday 08 September 2017,   10:30,   M2 (M233)

Jan Hämäläinen
Elementtimenetelmä magnetostatiikassa
Thursday 07 September 2017,   11:15,   M237
Kandiseminaari

Tarmo Kivioja
Lokaalin sileyden estimoinnista
Thursday 07 September 2017,   10:15,   M237
Kandiseminaari

Ville Kujala
Achieving the capacity of coded PIR using arbitrary linear code (BSc presentation)
Friday 25 August 2017,   15:15,   M3 (M234)
Kandidaattiseminaari

Juuso Korvuo
Hilojen lähimmän vektorin ongelma (kandiesitelmä)
Thursday 24 August 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Kandidaattiseminaari

Aki Malinen
Algebraic methods in maximum likelihood estimation (BSc presentation)
Thursday 24 August 2017,   09:15,   M3 (M234)
Kandidaattiseminaari

Hoa Ngo [Stochastic afternoon]
Information spreading in a large network
Tuesday 22 August 2017,   16:10,   M3 (M234)
A simple mathematical model for information spreading is a complete graph where everyone knows everyone and everyone relays messages at random time instants to randomly chosen neighbours independently of each other. In this talk we will consider information spreading in the large configuration model, which is a more advanced model. One of the key quantity analysing the rumour spreading speed is the broadcast time, the time when the rumour has reached the entire population. We will also discuss the broadcast time taking into account the passive and active users.

Alex Karrila [Stochastic afternoon]
Boundary branches in a uniform random spanning tree of a planar graph
Tuesday 22 August 2017,   15:10,   M3 (M234)
A physics principle asserts that the scaling limit of a critical lattice model, as increasingly dense lattices approximate a continuum domain, is described by a conformal field theory (CFT). The aim of this talk is to prove rigorously conformal invariance properties in the scaling limit of the uniform spanning tree (UST) of a planar graph, i.e., a tree subgraph that covers all the vertices of the original graph, chosen uniformly at random. In a spanning tree, any two vertices are connected by a unique path, called a branch. We study multiple simultaneous UST boundary-to-boundary branches between given boundary vertices, as well as the boundary visits of a single such branch. The related probabilities have conformally invariant scaling limits, and solve partial differential equations as predicted by CFT. As a collection of curves, such multiple simultaneous branches converge weakly to a conformally invariant law, called the local multiple SLE(2). These are among the first verifications of third-order PDEs of CFT, as well as convergence results to multiple SLE.

Armando W. Gutiérrez [Stochastic afternoon]
The horofunction compactificacion of lp spaces and Hilbert's projective metric
Tuesday 22 August 2017,   14:00,   M3 (M234)
The horofunction compactification is the result of making any metric space into a compact topological space by only using the metric. The elements of this compactification have been recently shown to be very useful in the study of limit theorems for deterministic and random dynamical systems. In this talk I will give a complete description of the horofunction compactification of the classical lp spaces. I will also consider Hilbert's projective metric on the standard cone of positive real vectors, and describe its horofunction compactification. The latter will be used to give a new proof of the well-known Perron theorem.

Valentina Candiani (University of Genova)
The role of segmentation in kidney compartmental analysis
Tuesday 22 August 2017,   10:15,   M2 (M233)
Seminar on Applied Mathematics

Prof. Saminathan Ponnusamy (ISI Chennai/IIT Madras)
Wednesday 16 August 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Seminar on Analysis and Geometry

Mikko Kivelä (Aalto University)
Randomized reference models and spreading in temporal networks
Monday 14 August 2017,   15:15,   M3 (M234)
For a long time network science concentrated on static graphs as representations of networked systems. This abstraction was used to analyse shortest path lengths, spreading of disease or information in networks, and many other things. Often the underlying assumption behind such analysis was that the activation of nodes and links is controlled by homogeneous Poisson processes. More recently there has been growing interest in analysing 'temporal networks' where the link activation times are determined directly from data. In this talk I will illustrate how this approach can be used to analyse a large communication network with hundreds of millions of link activation events. I will focus on how 'reference models', in which the data is shuffled in various ways, can be used for this data and how they are used in the literature on temporal networks in general. I will also discuss the challenges in the literature that are caused by the sudden increase in use of such shuffling methods of temporal network.
Aalto Stochastics & Statistics Seminar

Kaisa Nyberg / Chris Brzuska
Connections between linear and statistical independence of binary random variables / Survey about indistinguishability obfuscation
Monday 14 August 2017,   14:30,   M2 (M233)
Informal presentations during the visit of our new Cryptology professor Chris Brzuska
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Dissertation
Vesa Kaarnioja, Prof. Lars Grasedyck (RWTH Aachen University)
On sparse tensor structures in lattice theory and applications of the polynomial collocation method based on sparse grids
Wednesday 02 August 2017,   12:00,   M1 (M232)
Further information

Leevi Korkeala
Hyperbolisten ryhmien pinta-aliryhmät (kandiesitelmä)
Wednesday 02 August 2017,   11:15,   M3 (M234)
Kandidaattiseminaari

Miio Taarna
Julkisen liikenteen verkostojen tarkastelu verkkoteorian keinoin (kandiesitelmä)
Wednesday 02 August 2017,   10:15,   M3 (M234)
Kandidaattiseminaari

Pauliina Kärkkäinen
Positroniemissiotomografian käänteisongelma
Wednesday 02 August 2017,   09:15,   M3 (M234)
Kandidaattiseminaari

Valtteri Lipiäinen
Verkkojen Ollivier-Ricci -kaarevuus (kandiesitelmä)
Thursday 20 July 2017,   11:15,   M3 (M234)
Kandidaattiseminaari

Miika Leinonen
Kvaternioalgebrat ja hyvin pyöristyvät hilat (kandiesitelmä)
Thursday 20 July 2017,   10:15,   M3 (M234)
Kandidaattiseminaari

Prof. Gonzalo R. Arce (University of Delaware)
Coded Aperture Optimization in Compressive X-ray Tomography
Thursday 06 July 2017,   13:15,   M205
Seminar on Applied Mathematics

Prof. Oktay Olmez, Ankara University
Binary three-weight linear codes from partial geometric difference sets
Wednesday 21 June 2017,   15:00,   M3 (M234)
Links between linear codes, non-linear functions from cryptography, graphs and combinatorial designs have attracted the attention of many researchers over the last 50 years. Difference set method is a powerful tool to construct designs and explore the links between designs and many other combinatorial objects including codes and nonlinear cryptographic functions. In this talk, we will introduce a generalisation of $(v,k,\lambda)-$difference sets known as partial geometric difference sets. In particular, we will show that existence of a family of partial geometric difference sets is equivalent to existence of a certain family of three-weight linear codes. We also provide a link between binary plateaued functions, three-weight linear codes and partial geometric difference sets.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Kurkela, Korkeala, Stenbacka, Wilkman, Hämäläinen ja Taarna
Kanditöiden aihe-esittelyt, sessio 3
Monday 19 June 2017,   15:00,   M3 (M234)
Sessiossa kandityönsä aiheen esittelevät Lauri Kurkela, Leevi Korkeala, Filip Stenbacka, Markus Wilkman, Jan Hämäläinen ja Miio Taarna
Hollanti & Kangaslampi

Kiuru, Kivioja, Kujala, Malinen, Hyytiäinen ja Koskinen
Kanditöiden aihe-esittelyt, sessio 2
Monday 19 June 2017,   14:00,   M3 (M234)
Sessiossa kandityönsä aiheen esittelevät Aukusti Kiuru, Tarmo Kivioja, Ville Kujala, Aki Malinen, Tatu Hyytiäinen ja Tuomas Koskinen
Hollanti & Kangaslampi

Kärkkäinen, Lipiäinen, Tuomala, Aaltonen, Korvuo ja Leinonen
Kanditöiden aihe-esittelyt, sessio 1
Monday 19 June 2017,   13:15,   M3 (M234)
Sessiossa kandityönsä aiheen esittelevät Pauliina Kärkkäinen, Valtteri Lipiäinen, Lari-Matti Tuomala, Tuuli Aaltonen, Juuso Korvuo ja Miika Leinonen
Hollanti & Kangaslampi

Christopher Hopper
Fractional differentiability and singular set bounds for holonomic minimisers of integral functionals
Friday 09 June 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Dr. Fabricio Oliveira (RMIT Australia)
An introduction to Stochastic programming: modelling and solving decision problems under uncertainty
Wednesday 07 June 2017,   11:00,   M2 (M233)
Teaching demonstration

Dr. Fabricio Oliveira (RMIT Australia)
Efficiently solving stochastic mixed-integer problems combining Gauss-Seidel and penalty-based methods
Wednesday 07 June 2017,   09:00,   M2 (M233)

Cordian Riener (Kontanz + Arctic University)
Semidefinite programming and arithmetic progressions
Thursday 01 June 2017,   16:45,   M240
AScI Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

Louis Theran (St Andrews)
Generic global and universal rigidity and the power of SDP for graph realisation
Thursday 01 June 2017,   16:00,   M240
AScI Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

Parinya Chalermsook (Aalto CS)
Towards Fine-grained Combinatorial Optimization for NP-hard Problems
Thursday 01 June 2017,   14:45,   M240
AScI Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

Camilla Hollanti (Aalto MATH)
Private information retrieval from coded databases
Thursday 01 June 2017,   14:00,   M240
AScI Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

Aristides Gionis (Aalto CS)
Aligning networks: many and actively
Thursday 01 June 2017,   13:00,   M240
AScI Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

Chris Brzuska
Foundations of cryptography and their applications
Tuesday 30 May 2017,   13:30,   T5, CS building

Chris Brzuska
Meet-in-the-middle attack
Tuesday 30 May 2017,   09:00,   M1 (M232)

Nico Döttling
Powerful Primitives for Weak Assumptions
Monday 29 May 2017,   13:30,   T2, CS building

Nico Döttling
Meet-in-the-middle attack
Monday 29 May 2017,   09:00,   M1 (M232)

Arnab Roy
Secure and Efficient Symmetric-key Primities for Multiparty Computation/Zero-Knowledge/Verifiable Computational
Wednesday 24 May 2017,   13:30,   T5, CS building

Smiljana Jaksic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Spaces of ultradistributions with applications to pseudo-differential operators
Wednesday 24 May 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
This talk is based on joint works with Stevan Pilipovic and Bojan Prangoski. The first part of the talk is devoted to spaces of test functions and ultradistributions on the positive orthant of the Euclidean space, which can be described as analogous to the Gelfand-Shilov spaces and their dual spaces. Such ultradistributions are characterized through the Laguerre expansions. Furthermore, the full topological description of the spaces is given. The second part is devoted to the class of the Weyl pseudo-differential operators with radial symbols from the ultradistribution spaces. The continuity properties of these classes of pseudo-differential operators over the Gelfand-Shilov spaces and their dual spaces are proved. In this way, the classes of the Weyl pseudo-differential operators are extended to those with the radial symbols with the exponential and sub-exponential growth rate.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Kai Virtanen
Solving Dynamic Optimization Problems
Wednesday 24 May 2017,   10:30,   M2 (M233)
Teaching demonstration

Arnab Roy
Meet-in-the-middle attack
Wednesday 24 May 2017,   09:00,   M1 (M232)

Prof. Samuli Siltanen (University of Helsinki)
Electrical impedance tomography imaging of stroke
Tuesday 23 May 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Seminar on Applied Mathematics

Vincent Grosso
Cryptographic implementations and physical defaults
Tuesday 23 May 2017,   13:30,   T2, CS building

Vincent Grosso
Meet-in-the-middle attack
Tuesday 23 May 2017,   09:00,   M1 (M232)

Esa Hyytiä (University of Iceland)
TBA
Monday 22 May 2017,   17:30,   M1 (M232)

Sergei Chubanov (University of Siegen)
TBA
Monday 22 May 2017,   16:45,   M1 (M232)

Pierre Nyquist (KTH)
TBA
Monday 22 May 2017,   16:00,   M1 (M232)

Sergei Chubanov (University of Siegen)
Optimality conditions for unconstrained convex optimization
Monday 22 May 2017,   10:00,   M1 (M232)

Esa Hyytiä (University of Iceland)
Routing jobs to servers
Monday 22 May 2017,   09:30,   M1 (M232)

Pierre Nyquist (KTH)
Time series analysis, specifically (G)ARCH processes for financial time series
Monday 22 May 2017,   09:00,   M1 (M232)

Dimitrios Ntalampekos (UCLA)
Uniformization of Sierpinski carpets by square carpets
Friday 19 May 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Uniformization of metric spaces is the problem of finding conditions on a metric space, under which it can be transformed to a canonical space, by a map that preserves the geometry. In this talk, our metric space will be planar Sierpinski carpets, and the canonical spaces are square Sierpinksi carpets. We prove that every Sierpinski carpet, under certain geometric assumptions, can be mapped by a quasisymmetric map to a square carpet. This is achieved with the aid of carpet-harmonic functions, which is a discrete notion of harmonic functions on Sierpinski carpets.
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Prof. Daina Taimina (Cornell University)
Study mathematics and ... become an artist?
Tuesday 16 May 2017,   15:00,   C-hall (Y205)
When I was in middle school I was a good student and had very good grades in all subjects...except in art class where I was struggling to draw the way my teacher thought was the right way. I accepted my teacher's judgement that I can do anything but art and went to study mathematics. Could I imagine that some fifty years later I will be known as an artist? Mathematics and art are not too distant. In my talk, I will discuss the interplay between mathematics and art from my own perspective.
Joint Mathematics and Arts and Women in Mathematics Colloquium / Kirsi Peltonen

Céline Blondeau
Statistical attacks on symmetric cryptographic primitives (Job talk for Tenure Track in Cryptology position)
Friday 12 May 2017,   14:00,   T2, CS building

Céline Blondeau
Meet-in-the-middle attack (Teaching demonstration for Tenure Track in Cryptology position)
Friday 12 May 2017,   09:00,   M1 (M232)

Dissertation
Amaro Barreal
Doctoral thesis defense: Lattice codes for physical layer communications
Thursday 11 May 2017,   14:00,   M1 (M232)
Opponent Prof. Bharath Sethuraman, custos Camilla Hollanti.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Thomas Westerbäck
Combinatorial coding theory via polymatroids
Wednesday 10 May 2017,   16:15,   M3 (M234)
Matroid theory can be used to analyze many interesting properties of linear codes over finite fields. Recent research has proven matroid theory to be a valuable tool in several areas in coding theory, e.g. in distributed storage, index coding and network coding. Polymatroids, a generalization of matroids, can be associated with any finite code. In this talk I will present how polymatroids and codes are closely related via entropy and how polymatroid theory can be used in order to analyze many interesting properties of codes. New coding theoretical results will be given in the setting of polymatroids. These results can therefore also be applied to non-code objects that are associated with polymatroids.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Prof. Bharath Sethuraman (California State University, Northridge)
Matrices from Division Algebras and Fast Decodability (NOTE: ON TUESDAY!)
Tuesday 09 May 2017,   15:15,   M2 (M233)
We call two matrices A and B in M_n(C) mutually orthogonal if AB* + BA*=0, where A* indicates the conjugate transpose of A. The situation where such matrices arise from the embedding of a division algebra over a number field into M_n(C) is particularly interesting in wireless communications, where the presence of such matrices leads to fast decodability. We describe fundamental limits on the number of families of matrices that are mutually orthogonal across the families, and limits on the number of matrices in each family. The limits are obtained by a mix of techniques from both linear algebra and the theory of Brauer groups of commutative rings.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Robert Krone (Queen's University)
Rigid boundary components of non-negative rank matrices
Tuesday 09 May 2017,   10:15,   M237
The non-negative rank of a matrix is useful for algebraic statistics, but difficult to compute. The set of matrices with rank and non-negative rank both equal to r forms a semi-algebraic, Zariski-dense subset of the variety of rank r matrices. Describing all the boundary components of this set can provide a membership test, and this was accomplished for rank 3 by Mond, Smith and van Straten. Using a slightly different approach, we describe some of the boundary components in the higher rank cases, particularly the set of matrices that have a rigid nonnegative decomposition.
AScI Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

President Tuula Teeri, CEO Tapio Koivu (Heureka)
Sensual Mathematics
Monday 08 May 2017,   18:00,   Heureka
Further information
Opening of the Exhibition Sensual Mathematics at Heureka
Kirsi Peltonen

Prof. David Rios Insua (ICMAT-CSIC and Royal Academy of Sciences, Spain)
Adversarial Risk Analysis: Concepts, Applications and Challenges
Tuesday 02 May 2017,   15:15,   M1 (M232)
Colloquium of Mathematics and Systems Analysis

Pekka Lehtelä
On the regularity of supersolutions to the porous medium equation
Friday 28 April 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Tommi Brander, University of Jyväskylä
Detecting inclusions in Calderón's problem for p-Laplacian
Thursday 27 April 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Dr. David Cushing (Durham)
Bakry-Emery curvature functions of graphs
Wednesday 26 April 2017,   15:15,   M3 (M234)
Ricci curvature has proven to be a vital notion in many areas of mathematics. There have been various attempts at generalising this notion to graphs. We look at one such notion due to Bakry and Emery. We introduce the Bakry-Emery curvature function and obtain results on Cartesian products of graphs and also on a certain regularity property. I will also demonstrate interactive software that computes curvature.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Prof. Harri Ehtamo (Aalto)
Evoluutiopelit evakuointimalleissa - Pelastettavien kovan leikin peliteoreettinen kuvaus
Wednesday 26 April 2017,   15:00,   U8
LUMA-luennot lukiolaisille / Kangaslampi

Stavros Evdoridis (Aalto)
On Geometric Properties of Polyharmonic Mappings
Wednesday 26 April 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Thomas Britz (UNSW Sydney)
A Nice Proof of Wei's Duality Theorem
Tuesday 25 April 2017,   15:15,   M1 (M232)
The Tutte polynomial was once an esoteric object known only to the then small community of combinatorialists. That changed when Greene (1976) pointed out the connection between this polynomial and weight enumerators, and how that connection provided a beautifully simple proof of the MacWilliams Identity (MacWilliams 1963) of coding theory fame. The Tutte polynomial is now of wide interest and appeal to the broader mathematical community who have found it lurking disguised in numerous areas of mathematics. Despite its present prominence, few are aware of how the Tutte polynomial provides another beautifully simple proof of a second celebrated duality theorem from coding theory, namely Weis Duality Theorem (Wei 1991). This proof, due to Duursma (2004), deserves better exposure, so this talk will present Duursmas proof.
Colloquium of Mathematics and Systems Analysis

Prof. Kari Astala (University of Helsinki)
Self-similar sets (Teaching Demonstration for adjunct professor position)
Tuesday 25 April 2017,   14:15,   M1 (M232)

Elina Numminen (University of Helsinki)
The epidemics of a wild plant pathogen obey the laws of graph theory
Tuesday 25 April 2017,   10:15,   M237
The ecology and evolution of any pathogen is driven by the availability and dynamics of its host. For instance the surrounding landscape, and how it creates transmission barriers and highways can critically constrain the epidemiological dynamics. In my presentation, I will present analyses on a densely sampled longitudinal genomic dataset in order to assess the features driving spatio-temporal diversity and transmission dynamics of an obligate fungal plant pathogen, Podosphaera plantaginis in the Åland archipelago, the natural patchy metapopulation it occurs in. I utilize modern statistical inference techniques and mathematical graph theory to assess how different landscape features, especially roads impact the spread of this wind-dispersing pathogen and how this results in what seems at first as cryptic patterns of pathogen diversity. Our results show a prime example of analysing epidemics with the help of network concepts, an approach which often is tempting, yet inplausible due to lack of knowledge on the transmission network.
AScI Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

Prof. Daniele Boffi (Universitá di Pavia)
Finite elements for elliptic problems: a priori error estimates (Teaching demonstration for adjunct professor position)
Monday 24 April 2017,   11:00,   M2 (M233)

Casimir Lindfors PERUTTU CANCELLED

Friday 21 April 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Axel Målqvist, Chalmers University of Technology
Localization of elliptic multiscale problems
Thursday 20 April 2017,   10:00,   M2 (M233)
Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Prof. Samuli Siltanen (University of Helsinki)
Electrical impedance tomography imaging via the Radon transform
Wednesday 19 April 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Ville Tengvall (University of Jyväskylä)
A Sobolev homeomorphism that cannot be approximated by diffeomorphisms in $W^{1,p}$
Wednesday 12 April 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Joint work with Daniel Campbell and Stanislav Hencl
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Liam Solus (KTH)
Learning Bayesian Networks via Edge Walks on DAG Associahedra
Tuesday 11 April 2017,   10:15,   M237
The focus of this talk will be an application of convex polytopes to causal inference. Graphical models based on directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), also known as Bayesian networks, are used to model complex cause-and-effect systems across a vast number of research areas including computational biology, epidemiology, sociology, and environmental management. A DAG model is family of joint probability distributions over the nodes of a DAG G that entail a set of conditional independence (CI) relations encoded by the nonedges of G. A fundamental problem in causality is to learn an unknown DAG G based only on a set of observed conditional independence relations. Since multiple DAGs can encode the same set of CI relations, a property termed Markov equivalence, the goal is to identify efficient algorithms that consistently recover a DAG within the correct Markov equivalence class. We will describe a pair of greedy algorithms for DAG model selection that operate via edge walks on a family of generalized permutohedra called DAG associahedra. We will present consistency guarantees for these algorithms, and compare them with the more classical approaches to Bayesian model selection in both efficiency and strength of satisfied identifiability assumptions. To better understand the efficiency of these new algorithms, we study two new generating functions associated to a graph which share rich connections with classic combinatorial structures.
AScI Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

Juulia Happonen
Theory Behind Regulatory Capital Formulae
Monday 10 April 2017,   15:15,   M2 (M233)

Matias Vestberg
Up to Your Neck in Shallow Water
Friday 31 March 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
We take a plunge into the world of shallow water dynamics as described by the diffusive wave approximation. This nonlinear parabolic PDE is studied using De Giorgi and Moser type iteration techniques to obtain local boundedness of weak solutions. We also present fundamental solutions in the flat case and make some remarks regarding the existence of solutions.
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Matthew Romney (University of Illinois)
Existence of quasiconformal parametrizations of metric surfaces with improved dilatation
Wednesday 29 March 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
The measurable Riemann mapping theorem is the fundamental existence theorem for homeomorphic solutions to the Beltrami equation in the plane, i.e. quasiconformal mappings, and shows the flexibility of such mappings. More particularly, it gives hope for a positive answer to this question: given a metric space (X,d) quasiconformally homeomorphic to a simply connected domain in the complex plane, can one find a quasiconformal mapping from X onto the same domain which improves the dilatation to within a fixed universal bound? If so, what it the sharp value? This talk will discuss a solution of this problem.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Christian Haase (Freie Universität Berlin)
Finiteness Theorems for Lattice Polytopes
Tuesday 28 March 2017,   15:15,   M1 (M232)
A lattice polytope is the convex hull of finitely many points all whose coordinates are integers. These fundamental geometric objects appear in a variety of mathematical fields like combinatorics or algebraic and symplectic geometry, with applications ranging from optimization to statistics to mathematical physics in string theory. Considerable effort has gone into several classification projects for classes of lattice polytopes. All these classifications are based on theorems, stating that the class under consideration has only finitely many elements, or at least that certain parameters are bounded in the class. In this talk, I will give an overview of my favorite finiteness theorems, starting in the 19th century with Pick and Minkowski and ending with recent developments to be published in 2017+.
Colloquium of Mathematics and Systems Analysis

Johan Wästlund (Chalmers University of Technology)
Optimization Through Games
Tuesday 28 March 2017,   10:15,   M237
Further information
I will discuss a couple of different methods for analyzing optimization problems on large random structures. In particular I will show how some results can be derived by inventing two-person games whose optimal strategies encode the solution to problems like minimum weight matching on weighted graphs.
AScI Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

Matthias Grezet
Rank distribution and generalized weights of Delsarte codes
Wednesday 22 March 2017,   15:15,   M3 (M234)
Delsarte codes and, in particular, all rank-metric codes play an important role in network coding to correct errors and secure an adversarial channel. The purpose of this talk is to study the properties inherent to Delsarte codes via algebraic and combinatoric methods. We will first present an analogue of the Singleton bound theorem for this context. Then, we will talk about the rank distribution of a specific code. Finally, we will introduce a new invariant, called the set of generalized weights, and see how it can characterize different type of codes
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Mikko Stenlund (University of Jyväskylä)
Stein's method for dynamical systems
Wednesday 22 March 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
We present an adaptation of Steins method of normal approximation to the study of dynamical systems. The method yields a convergence rate essentially with the same amount of work as the central limit theorem, together with a multiplicative constant that can be computed directly from the assumptions.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Estibalitz Durand Cartagena (UNED, Spain)
∞-harmonic functions on metric measure spaces
Friday 17 March 2017,   15:00,   M3 (M234)
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Prof. Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State University)
3D Shadows: Casting Light on the Fourth Dimension
Thursday 16 March 2017,   18:30,   Heureka
Our brains have evolved in a three-dimensional environment, and so we are very good at visualising two- and three-dimensional objects. But what about four-dimensional objects? The best we can really do is to look at three-dimensional "shadows". Just as a shadow of a three-dimensional object squishes it into the two-dimensional plane, we can squish a four-dimensional shape into three-dimensional space, where we can then make a sculpture of it. If the four-dimensional object isn't too complicated and we choose a good way to squish it, then we can get a very good sense of what it is like. We will explore the sphere in four-dimensional space, the four-dimensional polytopes (which are the four-dimensional versions of the three-dimensional polyhedra), and various 3D printed sculptures, puzzles, and virtual reality experiences that have come from thinking about these things. I talk about these topics and much more in my new book, "Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing".
Mathematics and Arts Colloquium / Kirsi Peltonen

Prof. Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State University)
"Design of 3D printed mathematical art"
Wednesday 15 March 2017,   16:00,   B-Hall
When visualising topological objects via 3D printing, we need a three-dimensional geometric representation of the object. There are approximately three broad strategies for doing this: "Manual" - using whatever design software is available to build the object by hand; "Parametric/Implicit" - generating the desired geometry using a parametrisation or implicit description of the object; and "Iterative" - numerically solving an optimisation problem. The manual strategy is unlikely to produce good results unless the subject is very simple. In general, if there is a reasonably canonical geometric structure on the topological object, then we hope to be able to produce a parametrisation of it. However, in many cases this seems to be impossible and some form of iterative method is the best we can do. I will discuss these matters with many examples, including visualisation of four-dimensional polytopes (using orthogonal versus stereographic projection) and Seifert surfaces (comparing my work with Saul Schleimer with Jack van Wijk's iterative techniques). I will also describe some computational problems that have come up in my 3D printed work, including the design of 3D printed mobiles (joint work with Marco Mahler), "Triple gear" and a visualisation of the Klein Quartic (joint work with Saul Schleimer), and hinged surfaces with negative curvature (joint work with Geoffrey Irving).
Mathematics and Arts Colloquium / Kirsi Peltonen

Taoufiq Damir
The bounded gaps between primes (NOTE unusual time!)
Wednesday 15 March 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
The aim of the talk is to present a survey on the main ideas developed by Selberg, Goldston, Pintz, Yildirim, Maynard and Tao in order to prove the bounded gap between primes, namely the existence of infinitely many primes p such that p+M is prime, where M is some positive even integer. The talk will be in two parts. The first part will be mostly dedicated to an introduction to elementary Analytic number theory and Sieve theory, then in the second part we will sketch the proofs of the main results leading to the bounded gaps.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Eero Ruosteenoja (University of Jyväskylä)
Tug-of-war games
Wednesday 15 March 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Ten years ago Peres, Schramm, Sheffield and Wilson introduced two-player zero-sum stochastic games that they called tug-of-war games. They showed that these games have close connections to certain nonlinear PDEs of p-Laplacian and infinity Laplacian type. I will give an overview of the topic. No background knowledge of probability theory is needed.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Directed Hamiltonicity and Generalized Laplacians
Tuesday 14 March 2017,   10:15,   M237
The (symbolic) Laplacian matrix of a graph G is a rich source of algebraic combinatorics. Our interest is on directed graphs, where by puncturing the Laplacian at a vertex r and taking the determinant, we obtain, by the classical (directed) MatrixTree Theorem, a symbolic generating function for the spanning out-branchings of G rooted at r. In this talk we seek to understand Laplacian determinants via the algebraic combinatorics of incidence assignments that we can then turn into new randomized algorithm designs for, e.g., the Hamiltonian cycle problem on directed graphs. We present two such algorithm designs. First, for any constant 0 < \lambda < 1 and any prime p, we present a randomized algorithm that, given an n-vertex directed graph G as input, counts the number of Hamiltonian cycles modulo p^{\lfloor(1-\lambda)n/(3p)\rfloor} in expected time c^n for a constant c<2 that depends only on p and \lambda. Second, we present a randomized algorithm that with a negligible probability of a false negative detects a directed Hamiltonian cycle in a given n-vertex directed graph G in time O*(3^{n-\alpha(G)}) and space polynomial in n, where \alpha(G) is the size of a maximum independent set in G. This is joint work with Andreas Björklund (Lund University) and Ioannis Koutis (University of Puerto Rico).
ASci Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

Jonas Tölle
The p-Laplace evolution equation as p tends to 1: Mosco convergence and convergence of solutions
Friday 10 March 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Casimir Lindfors
Regularity for nonlinear parabolic PDEs with general growth
Thursday 09 March 2017,   15:40,   M3 (M234)
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Pekka Lehtelä
Generalized solutions to the porous medium equation
Thursday 09 March 2017,   15:15,   M3 (M234)
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Hoa Ngo
Thursday 09 March 2017,   14:40,   M3 (M234)
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Armando Gutiérrez
The horoboundary of metric spaces and its role in dynamics
Thursday 09 March 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Juho Andelmin
Solving the green vehicle routing problem and allocating resources based on efficiency analysis
Thursday 09 March 2017,   13:40,   M3 (M234)
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Yrjänä Hynninen
Mathematical methods for medical decision making
Thursday 09 March 2017,   13:15,   M3 (M234)
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Anton von Schantz
Modeling crowd dynamics in an evacuation as a multiagent system
Thursday 09 March 2017,   11:40,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Heikki Puustinen
Network optimization and simulation in military air mission planning
Thursday 09 March 2017,   11:15,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Pekka Laitila
Facilitating expert elicitation of probabilities for Bayesian networks
Thursday 09 March 2017,   10:40,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Mikko Harju
Spatial decision analysis with incomplete information
Thursday 09 March 2017,   10:15,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Tom Gustafsson
Numerical methods for lubrication and elastic contact
Wednesday 08 March 2017,   16:40,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Mikael Laaksonen
Spectral inverse iteration for stochastic eigenvalue problems
Wednesday 08 March 2017,   16:15,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Lauri Mustonen
Surrogate models and computational inverse problems
Wednesday 08 March 2017,   15:40,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Vesa Kaarnioja
On the structure and eigenvalues of lattice-theoretic tensors
Wednesday 08 March 2017,   15:15,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann
Symbol Erasures in Random Network Coding
Wednesday 08 March 2017,   15:15,   M3 (M234)
In random network coding we want to communicate over a noisy network channel with one sender and several receivers, where all receivers want to get the same information from the sender. We encode the data before sending it through the network, so the receivers can reconstruct the original data from the corrupted data. From a mathematical point of view, classical tools used in this context are projective spaces over finite fields. In this talk we will give an introduction to random network coding and explain how the classical model by Kötter and Kschischang treats erasures during the communication. Then we give an alternative model and show that, depending on the network topology, the classical or the alternative model can be advantageous for erasure correction.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Prof. Kaie Kubjas (Aalto)
Matrices, photos and Netflix
Wednesday 08 March 2017,   15:00,   TU1
LUMA-luennot lukiolaisille / Kangaslampi

Juha Kuortti
Spectral characteristics of the vocal tract
Wednesday 08 March 2017,   14:40,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Diana Apetrei
Tuesday 07 March 2017,   16:40,   M203
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Tiina Vesanen
Numerical aspects of multicentric calculus
Tuesday 07 March 2017,   16:15,   M203
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Antti Ojalammi
On exterior acoustics and speech modelling
Tuesday 07 March 2017,   15:40,   M203
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Ferdinand Blomqvist
The closest vector problem in high dimension
Tuesday 07 March 2017,   15:15,   M203
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Lauri Perkkiö
Differential material parameter in finite element analysis
Tuesday 07 March 2017,   10:40,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Amaro Barreal
Lattices for physical layer network coding
Tuesday 07 March 2017,   10:15,   M205
Doctoral student talk / Engström

Arithmetic circuits for multilinear tasks (45min, NOTE unusual time!)
Wednesday 01 March 2017,   17:15,   M3 (M234)
This talk will give a brief introduction to the design of arithmetic circuits for solving computational tasks, with a focus on multilinear tasks and designs, such as fast matrix multiplication and fast polynomial multiplication in the bilinear case, and higher-order designs such as determinants, permanents, and our recent design (with Andreas Björklund) for the \binom{6}{2}-linear form, which e.g. captures the task of counting the 6-cliques in a given graph.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Clifford Gilmore (University of Helsinki)
Growth rates of frequently hypercyclic harmonic functions
Wednesday 01 March 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
The notion of frequent hypercyclicity stems from ergodic theory and has been an active area of research since it was introduced by Bayart and Grivaux (2004). Many natural bounded linear operators are frequently hypercyclic, for instance the differentiation operator on the space of entire functions. We will begin by recalling some basic examples and the pertinent notions of frequent hypercyclicity. We then consider the partial differentiation operator acting on the space of harmonic functions on R^n. Our primary goal is to identify sharp growth rates, in terms of the L^2-norm, of harmonic functions that are frequently hypercyclic vectors for the basic partial differentiation operator. This answers a question posed by Blasco et al. (2010). This is joint work with Eero Saksman and Hans-Olav Tylli.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Eero Saksman (University of Helsinki)
The Riemann zeta function meets Gaussian multiplicative chaos
Tuesday 28 February 2017,   15:15,   M1 (M232)
We begin by recalling some basic properties of the Riemann zeta function and its relevance to number theory. Later on we describe it's chaotic nature on the critical strip. The final theme to be discussed is the functional statistics of the zeta function on the critical line. The last mentioned topic is based on joint work with Christian Webb (Aalto).
Colloquium of Mathematics and Systems Analysis

Dario Gasbarra (University of Helsinki)
Estimating passengers travel lenghts distributions in Helsinki commuter trains
Tuesday 28 February 2017,   10:15,   M237
A local train stops at stations 0, 1, . . . , T and passengers getting in and out a wagon are counted at every station. Since passengers are not labeled and with the same ticket it is possible to travel across all the line, when a passenger gets off the train, it is not known from which station he started. The distribution of the individual trips satisfies a constrained system of linear diophanitine equations, which typically is underdetermined. Nevertheless we show that, when i.i.d. realizations are collected , the probability distribution of the travel lengths, depending on the passengers departure station is identifiable. We use a Bayesian data augmentation, where the the distribution of the individual trips is the hidden variable. The posterior distribution is explored by the fiber walk Markov chain Monte introduced by Diaconis and Sturmfels 1998.
AScI Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

Ivo Kubjas
Two-Party Function Computation
Wednesday 22 February 2017,   15:15,   M3 (M234)
Assume a distributed system with two users, each user possesses a collection of binary strings. We introduce a new problem termed function computation on the reconciled data, where the users seek to compute a function on the union of their collections. Trivially, the users could just exchange their collections and then compute the value of the function. We see that any deterministic protocol can not perform much better in terms of bits communicated between the users. Namely, we show that any protocol that computes a sum and a product of reconciled sets of non-negative integers has to communicate at least 2^n + n - 1 and 2^n + n - 3 bits in the worst-case scenario, respectively. We also consider other approaches for estimating the communication complexity of the protocols. We establish connections to other problems in computer science, such as set disjointness and finding the intersection, yielding a variety of additional bounds. We present a randomized protocol, which is based on use of a family of hash functions and analyze its characteristics.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Aleksis Koski (University of Jyväskylä)
Nonlinear Beltrami equations: Improved regularity
Wednesday 22 February 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
The Beltrami equation is a planar elliptic equation generalizing the Cauchy-Riemann equations for holomorphic functions. In this talk we will introduce this equation along with its linear and nonlinear variants. We will explain some recent results on the nonlinear Beltrami equation related to the regularity of solutions, uniqueness properties of normalized solutions and the positivity of the Jacobian. We also study connections to divergence-type equations. The talk is based on joint work with Kari Astala, Albert Clop, Daniel Faraco and Jarmo Jääskeläinen.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Riikka Kangaslampi
Graph Curvature
Tuesday 21 February 2017,   10:15,   M237
We introduce the Ollivier-Ricci curvature of graphs, which is a curvature notion defined on the edges of the graph. As an example we calculate the curvature of the 1-sceleton of the icosidodecahedron, i.e., the icosidodecahedral graph. We also define briefly Bakry-Émery curvature, which is a curvature notion defined on the vertices of a graph, and discuss connections and differences of Ollivier-Ricci curvature and the normalized Bakry-Émery curvature. We calculate the Ollivier-Ricci curvature of strongly regular graphs of girth four and five and compare it with the corresponding Bakry-Émery curvatures, and derive a partial comparison result between both curvature notions in the family of triangle free regular graphs.
Combinatorics / Engström

Lisa Beck (Augsburg)
On the minimization of convex, variational integrals of linear growth
Friday 17 February 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
We study the minimization of functionals
$$\int_\Omega f(Du) \, dx$$
with a convex integrand $f$ of linear growth (such as the area integrand), among all functions in the Sobolev space $W^{1,1}$ with prescribed boundary values. Due to insufficient compactness properties of these Dirichlet classes, the existence of solutions does not follow in a standard way by the direct method in the calculus of variations and in fact might fail, as it is well-known already for the non-parametric minimal surface problem. Assuming radial structure, I explain for the scalar case a necessary and sufficient condition on the integrand such that the Dirichlet problem is solvable, in the sense that a Lipschitz solution exists for any regular domain and all prescribed regular boundary values, via the construction of appropriate barrier functions in the tradition of Serrin. Since for the general case solutions exist only in a suitably generalized sense, I then discuss the extension of the original functional to the space of functions of bounded variation via relaxation and give some results concerning the regularity and uniqueness of such generalized solutions. The results presented in this talk are based on joined projects with Miroslav Bulíček (Prague), Erika Maringová (Prague), and Thomas Schmidt (Hamburg).
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Kaie Kubjas
Algebraic methods for maximum likelihood estimation
Thursday 16 February 2017,   12:15,   M1 (M232)
Given data and a statistical model, the maximum likelihood estimate is the point of the statistical model that maximizes the probability of observing the data. In this talk, I will give examples how algebraic methods can help to solve the maximum likelihood estimation problem.
Women in Mathematics Colloquium + Free lunch/ Viveka Erlandsson

Prof. Sihem Mesnager (University of Paris 8)
Linear codes from bent functions over finite fields
Thursday 16 February 2017,   10:15,   M2 (M233)
Error correcting codes are widely studied by researchers and employed by engineers. They have long been known to have applications in computer and communication systems, data storage devices (starting from the use of Reed Solomon codes in CDs) and consumer electronics. A lot of progress has been made on the constructions of linear codes with few weights. Such codes have applications in secret sharing authentication codes, association schemes and strongly regular graphs. Certain special types of functions over finite fields are closely related to linear or nonlinear codes. In the past decade, a lot of progress on interplays between special functions and codes has been made. In particular, APN functions, planar functions, Dickson polynomials, and q-polynomials were employed to construct linear codes with optimal or almost optimal parameters. Recently, several new approaches to constructing linear codes with special types of functions were proposed, and a lot of linear codes with excellent parameters were obtained. Bent functions are maximally nonlinear Boolean functions. They were introduced by Rothaus in the 1960's and initially studied by Dillon as early as 1974 in his Thesis. The notion of bent function has been extended in arbitrary characteristic. For their own sake as interesting combinatorial objects, but also for their relations to coding theory (e.g. Reed-Muller codes, Kerdock codes, etc.), combinatorics (e.g. difference sets), design theory, sequence theory, and applications in cryptography (design of stream ciphers and of S-boxes for block ciphers), bent functions have attracted a lot of research for the past four decades. It is well-known that Kerdock codes are constructed from bent functions. Very recently, some authors have highlighted that bent functions lead to the construction of interesting linear codes (in particular, linear codes with few weights). This talk is devoted to linear codes from bent functions in characteristic $p$. We shall present the state of the art as well as our recent contributions in this topic. We will present two generic constructions of linear codes involving special functions and investigate constructions of good linear codes based on the generic constructions involving bent functions over finite fields. More specifically, we shall give more details on our recent results on linear codes with few weights from weakly regular bent functions based on a generic construction.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Piermarco Milione
Quaternion Algebras, Arithmetic, and Applications.
Wednesday 15 February 2017,   15:15,   M2 (M233)
Quaternion algebras are a wide generalization of the famous Hamilton's quaternions, and they include matrix algebras as special cases. They are the first examples of non-commutative algebras, and it is precisely the lack of commutativity which makes them appealing for many applications, not only in mathematics. In this talk we give an introduction to the arithmetic theory of quaternion algebras, stressing analogies and differences with the arithmetic of number fields. We take as archetype the order of Hurwitz's quaternions, which is the analog of the ring of Gaussian integers, in this non-commutative context. Finally, we also give a brief overview of some results, joint with L. Amorós, which are obtained in the study of the arithmetic in certain quaternion algebras and the corresponding bad reductions of certain families of Shimura curves.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Martina Aaltonen (University of Helsinki)
Non-manifold monodromy spaces of branched covering maps between manifolds.
Wednesday 15 February 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Abstract: Berstein and Edmonds showed that every proper branched cover F between manifolds is a factor of a branched covering orbit map. The domain of the orbit map is a locally connected and locally compact Hausdorff space and called the monodromy space of F. For proper branched covers between 2-manifolds the monodromy space is known to be a manifold. We show that this does not generalize to dimension 3 by constructing a self-map of the 3-sphere for which the monodromy space is not a locally contractible space.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Alex Jung
Compressed Sensing for Learning from Big Data over Networks
Tuesday 14 February 2017,   10:15,   M237
In this talk, I present some of our most recent work on applying tools from compressed sensing to (semi-supervised) machine learning with massive network-structured datasets, i.e., big data over networks. We expect the use of compressed sensing ideas game changing as it was for digital signal processing. In particular, I will present a sparse label propagation algorithm which efficiently learns the labels for data points based on the availability of a few labeled training data points. This algorithm is inspired by compressed sensing recovery methods and allows for a simple sufficient condition on the network structure which guarantees accurate learning.
AScI Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

Hannes Luiro (University of Jyväskylä)
W^{1,1}-problem for the maximal operator
Wednesday 08 February 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)

Prof. Shouhei Honda (Tohoku University)
Geometric analysis on RCD-spaces and applications
Wednesday 01 February 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
In this talk, we discuss metric measure spaces with Ricci curvature bounded from below, so called RCD-spaces. Alexandrov spaces, weighted Riemannian manifolds, and measured Gromov-Hausdorff (mGH) limit spaces of Riemannian manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below give typical examples of such spaces. The main purpose of this talk is to introduce several stability results of Sobolev/BV-functions with respect to mGH-convergence. Applications include a new spherical suspension theorem related to the $p$-Laplacian ($1 \le p \le \infty$) on an RCD-space, which is new even for smooth manifolds. Weyl's law on an RCD-space is also discussed if there is sufficient time. This talk is based on joint works with L. Ambrosio (arXiv:1605.07908), and with L. Ambrosio - D. Tewodrose (arXiv:1701.03906).
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Jarkko Kari (University of Turku)
An Algebraic Geometric Approach to Multidimensional Symbolic Dynamics
Tuesday 31 January 2017,   15:15,   U1 (U154)
We study low complexity multidimensional words and subshifts using tools of algebraic geometry. The low complexity assumption is that, for some finite shape D, the word or the subshift has at most |D| distinct patterns of shape D. We express words as multivariate formal power series over integers and notice that the low complexity assumption implies that there is an annihilating polynomial: a polynomial whose formal product with the power series is zero. We prove that the word must then be a sum of periodic words over integers, possibly with unbounded values. As a specific application of the method we obtain an asymptotic version of the well-known Nivat's conjecture: we show that a two-dimensional word that has low complexity with respect to arbitrarily large rectangles D must be periodic.
Colloquium of Mathematics and Systems Analysis

Ragnar Freij-Hollanti (Aalto University)
Reed-Solomon codes and Private Information Retrieval
Tuesday 31 January 2017,   10:15,   M237
Private information retrieval (PIR) addresses the question of how to retrieve data items from a database without disclosing information about the identity of the data items retrieved. The area has received renents of all thewed attention, after a model of coded PIR was introduced. Here the files are distributed over the servers according to a storage code, so there is no assumption of the conte servers being identical. We present a general framework for PIR from arbitrary coded databases, that allows one to adjust the scheme according to the suspected collections of colluding servers. We will survey capacity results and constructions in this area. In the second half of the talk, we introduce generalized Reed-Solomon (GRS) codes, and discuss some of their algebraic properties that are desirable in data storage applications. We show that our PIR schemes have optimal performance if the storage code is a generalized Reed-Solomon code. We compare our constructions to known capacity bounds for coded PIR, and introduce a new model of coded PIR for caching, in which we conjecture that our constructions are optimal. This is joint work with Salim El Rouayheb, Oliver Gnilke, Camilla Hollanti, David Karpuk, and Razane Tajjedine.
Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas

Riikka Kangaslampi (Aalto)
Fraktaalien matematiikkaa
Wednesday 25 January 2017,   15:00,   TU1
LUMA-luennot lukiolaisille / Kangaslampi

Prof Juan Souto (Universite de Rennes 1)
Critical sets of smooth functions on R^3
Wednesday 25 January 2017,   10:15,   M3 (M234)
Note the exceptional time ! Abstract: While it is classical, and otherwise easy to see, that each closed set of R^n is the set of zeroes of a smooth function, much less is known about which sets arise as sets of critical points. In this talk I will discuss some results in 3 dimensions.

Rami Luisto (University of Jyväskylä)
Stoilow's theorem revisited
Wednesday 18 January 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Stoı̈lows theorem from 1928 states that a continuous, light, and open mapping between surfaces is a discrete map with a discrete branch set. This result implies that such mappings between orientable surfaces are locally modelled by complex power mappings and admit a holomorphic factorization. The purpose of the talk is to give a proof of this classical theorem having the readers interested in discrete and open mappings in mind.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Peter Lindqvist (Trondheim)
Non-linear Eigenvalue Problems
Friday 13 January 2017,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Prof. Xiao Zhong (University of Helsinki )
On the Euler-Lagrange equation of a functional by Pólya and Szegö
Wednesday 11 January 2017,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
I will talk about a conjecture of Pólya and Szegö on minimal electrostatic capacity sets in convex shape optimization. The functional, associated to the conjecture, involves capacity and perimeter. We will focus on the regularity properties of generalized solutions of the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation. This is joint work with Nicola Fusco.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Symmetric and Lagrangian degeneracy loci: Kummer surfaces and hyperkähler fourfolds.
Tuesday 10 January 2017,   11:15,   M240
Kummer quartic surfaces may be constructed as both symmetric and Lagrangian degeneracy loci. I shall discuss these constructions, relations between them, and similar constructions of hyperkähler fourfolds, in a report on common work with Atanas Iliev, Grzegorz and Michal Kapustka.

Prof. Olavi Nevanlinna
On computing spectra of bounded operators in separable Hilbert spaces
Monday 09 January 2017,   14:15,   M2 (M233)
Seminar on Applied Mathematics

David Karpuk
Lattices for Reliable and Secure Wireless Communication
Wednesday 04 January 2017,   15:15,   Y228a
Wireless communications is ubiquitous in modern life, and the mathematics of communications engineering is fundamental to everything from large cellular networks to small Wi-Fi networks. In wireless communications, data is often represented as a finite subset of R^n called a constellation, and choosing a constellation cleverly can increase reliability of transmission or protect against malicious eavesdroppers. Constellations carved from lattices, that is, discrete subsets of R^n, are especially useful as the underlying algebraic structure of lattices allows for analysis of certain error probabilities. In this talk we will begin with a survey of practical lattice constructions, discuss our recent work concerning lattices from number-theoretic constructions and Hadamard matrices, and discuss future work regarding applications of so-called well-rounded lattices.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Lasse Leskelä (Aalto)
Clustering coefficients in large directed graphs
Tuesday 20 December 2016,   15:15,   M1 (M232)
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Stochastic Sauna 2016

Juhan Aru (ETH Zürich)
Balancing random sums of vectors
Tuesday 20 December 2016,   15:15,   M1 (M232)
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Stochastic Sauna 2016

Alex Jung (Aalto)
Graphical Model Selection for Learning from Big Data over Networks
Tuesday 20 December 2016,   14:00,   M1 (M232)
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Stochastic Sauna 2016

Jani Lukkarinen (Univ. Helsinki)
Summability of joint cumulants of nonindependent lattice fields
Tuesday 20 December 2016,   13:00,   M1 (M232)
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Stochastic Sauna 2016

Generalized linear latent variable models in the analysis of multivariate abundance data
Tuesday 20 December 2016,   11:15,   M1 (M232)
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Stochastic Sauna 2016

Tommi Sottinen (Univ. Vaasa)
Prediction of Gaussian processes
Tuesday 20 December 2016,   10:15,   M1 (M232)
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Stochastic Sauna 2016

Christophe Prange (Université de Bordeaux)
Quantitative analysis of boundary layers in periodic homogenization
Wednesday 14 December 2016,   10:00,   M2 (M233)
In this talk I will focus on new quantitative estimates concerning the homogenization of elliptic systems with oscillating Dirichlet boundary conditions. The results are joint with Scott Armstrong, Tuomo Kuusi and Jean-Christophe Mourrat.
Seminar on analysis and geometry / Tuomo Kuusi

Bernd Schwarzenbacher (TU Wien)
Algebraic Multigrid for Maxwell Equations
Monday 12 December 2016,   14:15,   M2 (M233)
Seminar in Applied Mathematics

Rico Zacher (Ulm University)
Li-Yau and Harnack inequalities on graphs
Friday 09 December 2016,   14:30,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Bartłomiej Dyda (Politechnika Wrocławska)
On function spaces and extension results for nonlocal Dirichlet problems
Friday 09 December 2016,   13:30,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Weighted Sobolev regularity of weak solutions of degenerate/singular elliptic problems
Friday 09 December 2016,   10:45,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Cyril Imbert (CNRS)
Weak Harnack inequality for the Boltzmann equation without cut-off
Friday 09 December 2016,   09:45,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Martina Hofmanová (Technische Universität Berlin)
Rough Gronwall Lemma and weak solutions to RPDEs
Thursday 08 December 2016,   16:00,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Aleksandra Zimmermann (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Martingale solutions for a pseudomonotone evolution equation with multiplicative noise
Thursday 08 December 2016,   14:30,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Lisa Beck (University of Augsburg)
Regularization by noise for the stochastic transport equation
Thursday 08 December 2016,   13:30,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Prof. Katie Steckles (Manchester)
The Hidden Maths of Technology
Thursday 08 December 2016,   13:00,   Nokia-sali (Töölö)
There are numbers all around us that make our modern lives possible. From rescuing your lost words in text messages, to taking selfies and buying products online. Katie will introduce some of the mathematical ideas used in storing, sending and manipulating information, and talk about her recent MegaPixel project - to build the world's largest digital photograph, coloured in by hand.
LUMA lecture/ Kirsi Peltonen

Joaquim Serra (ETH Zurich)
Stable nonlocal phase transitions and minimal surfaces
Thursday 08 December 2016,   10:45,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Pierre Cardaliaguet (Université Paris - Dauphine)
On the master equation in mean field game theory
Thursday 08 December 2016,   09:45,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Prof. Katie Steckles (Manchester)
Fractals and Dynamical Systems
Thursday 08 December 2016,   09:00,   Y202a Aalto
Fractals are infinitely detailed mathematical objects, and studying them uses a range of maths, from algorithms and geometric constructions to infinite limits and different ways of measuring dimensions. Katie will introduce some mind-blowing new concepts while showing the mathematics behind natural structures and how its used in modelling.
LUMA lecture/ Kirsi Peltonen

Jarmo Malinen
On resonances - the practical aspect of eigenvalue problems
Wednesday 07 December 2016,   16:15,   M2 (M233)
Seminar on Applied Mathematics

Michael Hinz (Bielefeld University)
First order derivations for Dirichlet forms and applications
Wednesday 07 December 2016,   16:00,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Eero Ruosteenoja (University of Jyväskylä)
Regularity for the normalized p-Poisson problem
Wednesday 07 December 2016,   14:30,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Armin Schikorra (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
O'Hara's knot energies and W^{1/p,p}-harmonic maps into spheres
Wednesday 07 December 2016,   13:30,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Stefan Geiss (University of Jyväskylä)
On continuous time tug-of-war with noise and p-harmonic functions
Wednesday 07 December 2016,   10:45,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Nizar Touzi (École Polytechnique)
Branching diffusion representation for nonlinear PDEs
Wednesday 07 December 2016,   09:45,   M1 (M232)
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Workshop on Nonlinear, nonlocal problems and stochastic methods

Alex Karrila (Aalto)
Boundary branches in planar uniform spanning trees
Monday 05 December 2016,   15:15,   M1 (M232)
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Many planar lattice models of statistical physics are expected to have a continuum limit which is invariant under conformal maps. Physicists predict the behaviour of such models by conformal field theories (CFTs) based on this expectation. Mathematical statistical physics aims at proving rigorously conformal invariance properties. One such lattice model is the planar uniform spanning tree (UST): given a graph which is a lattice approximation of some planar domain, one picks a tree subgraph that covers all the vertices. In a spanning tree, any two vertices are connected by a unique branch, and the scaling limit of a single branch has been identified as the SLE(2) random curve. We study the probability of observing multiple disjoint branches between given boundary vertices in a UST, as well as boundary visits of a single such boundary branch. We find explicitly these probabilities and their scaling limits, and show that the scaling limits are indeed conformally invariant and satisfy PDEs and asymptotics predicted by CFT. This is among the first verifications of third-order PDEs in the scaling limits of lattice models. In subsequent work, we believe that this will help us to identify the scaling limit of multiple boundary branches as a multiple SLE(2).
Aalto Stochastics & Statistics Seminar (Ilmonen-Kytölä-Leskelä)

Henri Martikainen (University of Helsinki)
Friday 02 December 2016,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Matias Vestberg
Deep Problems in Shallow Water
Wednesday 30 November 2016,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
We acquaint ourselves with a nonlinear parabolic PDE known as the diffusive wave approximation of the shallow water equations. We show local boundedness of weak solutions, thus extending previously known regularity results for the special case of a flat topography. We also obtain fundamental solutions in the flat case.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Prof. Leena Suhl (University of Paderborn)
Optimization systems to support planning processes in traffic and transportation
Tuesday 29 November 2016,   15:15,   U1 (U154)
Planning processes in large traffic and transportation systems involve complex networks with many interdependencies of components. In timetable based public transportation systems, the planning steps such as line planning, timetabling, fleet assignment, vehicle routing, crew scheduling and rostering, are usually carried out sequentially. The talk will give an overview of optimization models and solution methods to support such planning processes. Optimal vehicle rotations can, under certain conditions, be computed with low computational effort, but complex vehicle routing and crew scheduling problems cannot be solved to optimality with software available today. Thus solution methods need to involve heuristics and metaheuristics additionally to exact optimization. There is often a gap between requirements from enterprises in practice and scientific methods available in literature, and new research problems can be identified that help to close this gap. Requirements for robust schedules or integrated planning provide further challenging research questions today.
Departmental Colloquim

Pekka Lehtelä (Aalto)
Unbounded supersolutions of the porous medium equation
Friday 25 November 2016,   14:15,   Kumpula C123
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

David Bate (University of Helsinki)
Differentiability and Poincare-type inequalities in metric measure spaces.
Wednesday 23 November 2016,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Metric measure spaces that satisfy a Poincare inequality (in the sense of Heinonen and Koskela) are a standard starting point for generalising many areas of analysis to the abstract metric setting. In particular, Cheeger proved that they satisfy a generalisation of Rademacher's differentiation theorem, which was extended by Cheeger-Kleiner to all Lipschitz functions taking values in a Banach space with the Radon-Nikodym property. In this talk we will demonstrate the necessity of a Poincare type inequality for those metric measure spaces that satisfy Cheeger's differentiation theorem for all Lipschitz functions taking values in an RNP-Banach space. This is done by showing the existence of a rich structure of curve fragments that connect near by points, similar in nature to Semmes's pencil of curves for the standard Poincare inequality. Using techniques similar to Cheeger-Kleiner, these conditions are also sufficient. This is joint work with Sean Li.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Antti Ojalammi
Exterior domain eigenvalue problems in acoustics
Monday 21 November 2016,   14:15,   M2 (M233)
Seminar on Applied Mathematics

Dissertation
Janne Korvenpää
Nonlocal nonlinear potential theory and fractional integral operators
Friday 18 November 2016,   12:00,   M1 (M232)

Alessandro Neri (University of Zurich)
On the Genericity of Maximum Rank Distance and Gabidulin Codes
Wednesday 16 November 2016,   15:15,   Y229a
Codes in the rank-metric have been studied for the last four decades. For linear codes a Singleton-type bound can be derived for these codes. In analogy to MDS codes in the Hamming metric, we call rank-metric codes that achieve the Singleton-type bound MRD (maximum rank distance) codes. Since the works of Delsarte and Gabidulin we know that linear MRD codes exist for any set of parameters. The codes they describe are called Gabidulin codes. The question, if there are other general constructions of MRD codes that are not equivalent to Gabidulin codes, has been of large interest recently. Some constructions of non-Gabidulin MRD codes are known, but many of the derived codes are not linear over the underlying field but only linear over some subfield of it. In general, it remains an open question for which parameters non-Gabidulin MRD codes exist, and if so, how many such codes there are. We show that the properties of being MRD and non-Gabidulin are generic. This implies that over a large field extension degree a randomly chosen generator matrix generates an MRD and a non-Gabidulin code with high probability. Moreover, we give an upper bound on the respective probabilities in dependence on the extension degree. Joint work with Anna-Lena Horlemann-Trautmann, Tovohery Randrianarisoa and Joachim Rosenthal.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Daniel Meyer (University of Jyväskylä)
Expanding Thurston maps and Quasispheres
Wednesday 16 November 2016,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Abstract: A quasisphere is a metric sphere that is quasisymmetrically equivalent to the standard $2$-sphere. An important open question is to give a characterization of quasispheres. This is closely related to Cannon's conjecture. This conjecture may be formulated as stipulating that a group that behaves topologically'' as a Kleinian group is geometrically'' such a group. Equivalently, it stipulates that the boundary at infinity'' of such groups is a quasisphere. A Thurston map is a map that behaves topologically'' as a rational map, i.e., a branched covering of the $2$-sphere that is postcritically finite. A question that is analog to Cannon's conjecture is whether a Thurston map is'' a rational map. This is answered by Thurston's classification of rational maps. For Thurston maps that are expanding in a suitable sense, we may define visual metrics''. The map then is (topologically conjugate) to a rational map if and only if the sphere equipped with such a metric is a quasisphere. This is based on joint work with Mario Bonk.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Emanuele Ventura
Finite phylogenetics complexity and combinatorics of tables
Tuesday 15 November 2016,   10:00,   M3 (M234)
In this talk we show that the phylogenetic complexity, an invariant introduced by Sturmfels and Sullivant in the context of computational phylogenetics, of any finite abelian group is finite.
Combinatorics seminar

Petri Tuisku (University of Helsinki)
The energy density in toric Ising model
Monday 14 November 2016,   15:15,   M1 (M232)
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I calculate rigorously the scaling limit of energy density of the critical Ising model on the square lattice on the two dimensional torus. An exact formula is found for the energy density scaling limit asymptotics and thus calculations that have appeared in physics literature are validated. We also demonstrate how the energy density of the discrete Ising model is related to determinants of certain discrete Laplacians, and in the process of our calculation, we also find the scaling limit of the Ising model partition function.
Aalto Stochastics & Statistics Seminar (Ilmonen-Kytölä-Leskelä)

Casimir Lindfors (Aalto)
On the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for a general class of parabolic equations
Friday 11 November 2016,   14:15,   Kumpula C123
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Dissertation
Helle Majander, Prof. Kim Knudsen (DTU)
Efficient reconstruction algorithms for three-dimensional tomographic imaging
Friday 11 November 2016,   12:00,   lecture hall E
Further information

Dr. Marzieh Arabi Kakavand (Isfahan University of Technology)
Simple-extending modules and semisimple-extending modules
Wednesday 09 November 2016,   15:15,   Y229a
Let M be an R-module and N be any submodule of M. A submodule C of M is called a complement of N if C is maximal in the collection of submodules Q of M such that Q\cap N=0. A submodule C of M is called complement (in M) if there is a submodule N such that C is complement of N in M. A module M is called extending (or CS) module if every complement submodule of M is a direct summand of M. These modules were introduced by Harada and Muller in 1980 and later were studied quite extensively by many authors. A module M is called simple-extending (semisimple-extending) if every complement of any simple (semisimple) submodule of M is a direct summand. The aim of the talk is to present some recent results concerning simple-extending and semisimple-extending modules. Namely, we will describe rings R such that every R-module M is simple-extending (semisimple-extending).
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Professor Enrico Zio (Politecnico di Milano)
A Modern Vision of Risk Assessment for Modern Industry
Wednesday 09 November 2016,   14:00,   M1 (M232)
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As the digital, physical and human worlds continue to integrate, we experience a deep transformation in industry, which far-reaches into our lives. The 4th industrial revolution, the internet of things and big data, the industrial internet, are changing the way we design, manufacture, provide products and services. This is creating a complex network of things and people that are seamlessly connected and communicating. It is providing opportunities to make productions systems more efficient and faster, and more flexible and resilient the complex supply chains and distribution networks that tie the global economy.
In this fast-pace changing environment, the key performance indicators related to safety, reliability, maintainability of components and systems continue to play a fundamental role for industry. The innovations that are being developed have high potential of increased wellbeing and benefits, rendering everything better and smarter, but also generating new and unknown failure mechanisms, new and unknown functional and structural dependencies, and eventually new and unknown hazards and risks. On the other hand, the advancements in knowledge, methods and techniques, the increase in information sharing and data availability, offer new opportunities of analysis for optimal design, operation and maintenance of modern system engineering and industry. Then, a new revolution is in the making for addressing the challenges brought about by the new and evolved, complex systems (and systems of systems), and the innovations therein; this calls for and, at the same time, drives the advancements of new methods and tools of complex system analysis, and the extension of their applications, based on the increased knowledge, information and data (KID) available, which can improve our system behavior understanding capability in support to decision making. In this talk, we will consider the above context and address some challenges and opportunities for complex system engineering, focusing on desired attributes of safety, reliability, maintainability but also resilience and flexibility.
Aalto Systems Forum

David Brander (Technical University of Denmark)
Harmonic maps and geometric Cauchy problems
Wednesday 09 November 2016,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
t has been known since the 1990's that harmonic maps from Riemannian or Lorentzian surfaces into Symmetric spaces admit loop group generalizations of the classical Weierstrass representation (Riemannian) or d'Alembert solution of the wave equation (Lorentzian). These allow one to construct solutions to the various geometric problems that are associated to harmonic maps. The utility of these representations is obstructed by the loss of geometric information in the loop group decomposition that relates the harmonic map to the "Weierstrass" data. Recently, special types of Weierstrass data have been introduced that contain full geometric information along a curve. I will discuss applications of this technique to the construction of integrable surfaces.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

SITE VISIT TALKS: Juliane Müller (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Surrogate models in computationally expensive black-box simulation optimization
Monday 07 November 2016,   16:15,   M1 (M232)
I will discuss surrogate model algorithms for solving computationally expensive black-box optimization problems. These problems arise in many application areas, for example, in the development of simulation models for global climate studies, gas-phase chemical combustion, cosmology, and material science. The simulation models usually have several parameters that must be adjusted optimally in order to obtain a best fit or an optimal design. However, a single evaluation of the simulation model (and thus of the objective function) may take from several minutes to hours or even days, hence drastically restricting the number of parameter combinations we can try during the optimization. Derivative information is generally not available and derivative-free methods must be used. In this talk, I will focus in particular on multi-objective simulation optimization problems as well as on problems with hidden constraints.
MS site visit talks /Systems Analysis Laboratory Seminar

Vesa Kaarnioja
Eigenvalue problems for high order meet and join tensors
Monday 07 November 2016,   14:15,   M2 (M233)
Seminar on Applied Mathematics

Emil Vuorinen (University of Helsinki)
Characterizations of two-weight inequalities in L^p
Friday 04 November 2016,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Dissertation
Jussi Kangaspunta
Dissertation: Resource Allocation Methods for Defence and Infrastructure Systems
Friday 04 November 2016,   12:00,   H304
Further information

SITE VISIT TALKS: Kazim Buyukboduk (Koc University, Istanbul)
Reciprocity Laws and p-adic analytic construction of rational points (NOTE: starts 10 sharp!)
Friday 04 November 2016,   10:00,   M2 (M233)
Our goal in this talk is to present a basic overview of reciprocity laws, starting off with that is due to Gauss and reaching all the way up to those predicted as part of Langlands' Program and Wiles' celebrated Modularity Theorem in this vein. The latter result is one of the key inputs in our recent p-adic analytic construction of a rational point of infinite order on an elliptic curve of rank one that has good supersingular reduction at p.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

SITE VISIT TALKS: Germain van Bever (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Depth-based methods in statistics
Thursday 03 November 2016,   16:15,   M203
Statistical (location) depth has become more and more popular over the last decades and illustrates the growing importance geometrical methods are taking in mathematical statistics. This talks aims at showcasing several new depth-based notions in various statistical problems. After a review of the concept of statistical depth, including the celebrated halfspace depth of Tukey (1975) and simplicial depth of Liu (1990), the following three topics will be investigated. Despite the fact that depth indeed produces regions that provide much information on the underlying distribution, all location depths entering the general scheme of Zuo and Sering (2000) lead to convex depth regions, hence cannot deal with multimodality. A new concept of local depth is proposed (Paindaveine & VB, 2013), allowing for the analysis of, among others, multimodal distributions. Properties of this local depth concept are explored and its use is illustrated in various applications, including discriminant analysis, density estimation, etc. Robustness properties of the new concept of depth, inherited from the robust behaviour of the classical definition, are studied. The second focus is one of the most natural applications of depth, namely classification. After a short review of the existing methods, a class of depth-based classification procedures that are of a nearest neighbour nature is proposed (Paindaveine & VB, 2015). The corresponding nearest neighbours are identified through a symmetrised depth construction. Our classifiers enjoy (i) the robustness and affine-invariance of depth-based procedures and (ii) the good asymptotic properties of nearest-neighbour classifiers. In particular, the proposed depth-based classifiers are near-universally consistent. Finally, recent advances (Helander et al.) in depth for data of a functional nature will be detailed. This new concept uses statistics of interest of a Pareto-like optimization approach to define a concept of depth for functional data that includes features other than location in its construction. This therefore allows to discriminate between observations that do not differ necessarily in location but also in shape, range, etc. Illustrations will be provided throughout.
MS site visit talks

Game-Theoretic and Reliability Methods for Counter-terrorism and Security
Thursday 03 November 2016,   14:00,   G-111, Chydenia (Runeberginkatu 2224, Helsinki)
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The routine application of reliability and risk analysis by itself is not adequate in the security domain. Protecting against intentional attacks is fundamentally different from protecting against accidents or acts of nature. In particular, an intelligent and adaptable adversary may adopt a different offensive strategy to circumvent or disable protective security measures. Game theory provides a way of taking this into account. Thus, security and counter-terrorism can benefit from a combination of risk analysis and game theory. I will discuss the use of risk and reliability analysis and game theory for defending complex systems against attacks by knowledgeable and adaptable adversaries. The results of such work yield insights into the nature of optimal defensive investments in networked systems to obtain the best trade-off between the cost of the investments and the security of the resulting systems.
Aalto Systems Forum

Oliver Gnilke
Semigroup action problems in cryptography
Wednesday 02 November 2016,   15:15,   M2 (M233)
With quantum algorithms available to solve the classical discrete logarithm problem a need for different one-way functions arises. We study several alternatives to the DLP based on different semigroups and evaluate their security. A general framework for reducing semigroup action problems to smaller instances, in line with the Pohlig-Hellman attack on classical DLPs, is given.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

SITE VISIT TALKS: Jevgenijs Ivanovs (Aarhus University)
Zooming in on a Lévy process at its supremum
Wednesday 02 November 2016,   13:15,   M237
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Let M and τ be the supremum and its time of a Lévy process X on some finite time interval. It is shown that zooming in on X at its supremum, that is, considering (a η (X τ +t/η − M )) t∈R as η, a η → ∞, results in (ξ t ) t∈R constructed from two independent processes corresponding to some self-similar Lévy process S conditioned to stay positive and negative. This holds when X is in the domain of attraction of S under the zooming-in procedure as opposed to the classical zooming-out of Lamperti [1962]. As an application of this result we provide a limit theorem for the discretization errors in simulation of supremum and its time, which extends the result of Asmussen, Glynn, and Pitman [1995] for the Brownian motion. In this talk I will aim at a general mathematical audience providing various illustrations of basic concepts.
MS site visit talks

Antti Vähäkangas (University of Jyväskylä)
Self-improving properties of Poincaré inequalities revisited
Wednesday 02 November 2016,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
We review some of the self-improving properties of Poincaré inequalities on doubling metric measure spaces. Our emphasis is on novel aspects of the Keith-Zhong theorem (Annals of Mathematics, 2008). The talk is based on a joint work with: J. Kinnunen (Aalto University), J. Lehrbäck (University of Jyväskylä) and X. Zhong (University of Helsinki).
Seminar on analysis and geometry

SITE VISIT TALKS: Matti Vihola (University of Jyväskylä)
Unbiased estimators and multilevel Monte Carlo
Tuesday 01 November 2016,   14:15,   M203
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Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) and recently proposed debiasing schemes are closely related methods for scenarios where exact simulation methods are difficult to implement, but biased estimators are available. An important application is inference with stochastic differential equation models, where the continuous-time process is difficult to simulate but time-discretized approximations are easy to implement. A new general class of unbiased estimators is introduced, which admits earlier debiasing schemes as special cases, and accomodates new lower variance estimators based on stratification. The stratified schemes behave asymptotically like MLMC, both in terms of variance and cost, under general conditions --- essentially those that guarantee canonical square root rate of MLMC. This suggests that MLMC bias can often be eliminated entirely with small extra cost. The new schemes also admit optimisation criteria which are easy to implement in practice. (The talk is based on arXiv:1512.01022)
MS site visit talks

SITE VISIT TALKS: Kaie Kubjas
How to flatten a soccer ball
Tuesday 01 November 2016,   10:15,   M3 (M234)
In this talk, I will explain how to compute the image of a simple semialgebraic set of 3-space (soccer ball) under a polynomial map into the plane. In general cases, the boundary of the image is given by two highly singular curves. I will discuss the number of connected components of the complement of the image, maps onto convex polygons as well as connections to convex optimization. This talk is based on joint work with Pablo A. Parrilo and Bernd Sturmfels.
MS site visit talks

Hao Wu (University of Geneva)
Arm Exponents for Ising and FK-Ising Model
Monday 31 October 2016,   15:15,   M3 (M234)
Further information
The introduction of SLE by Oded Schramm provides mathematicians with a new tool to study critical lattice models. In the first part of this talk, I will discuss critical planar percolation and explain how people use SLE to derive the arm exponents of percolation. In the second part, I will introduce SLE and general formulae on arm exponents of SLE, and show that these formulae give us various results on the arm exponents of critical planar Ising and FK-Ising models. Finally, I will explain some related results and some open questions.
Aalto Stochastics & Statistics Seminar (Ilmonen-Kytölä-Leskelä)

Prof. Daniele Boffi (University of Pavia)
Finite element approximation of eigenvalue problems in mixed form
Monday 31 October 2016,   14:15,   M2 (M233)
Seminar on Applied Mathematics

Patrik Norén
Slicing and dicing polytopes
Friday 28 October 2016,   13:15,   M2 (M233)
Using tropical convexity Dochtermann, Fink, and Sanyal proved that regular fine mixed subdivisions of Minkowski sums of simplices support minimal cellular resolutions. They asked if the regularity condition can be removed. We give an affirmative answer by a different method. A new easily checked sufficient condition for a subdivided polytope to support a cellular resolution is proved. The main tool used is discrete Morse theory.
Engström

Petteri Kaski (Aalto University, Department of Computer Science)
How proofs are prepared at Camelot
Wednesday 26 October 2016,   15:15,   M2 (M233)
We study a design framework for robust, independently verifiable, and workload-balanced distributed algorithms working on a common input. An algorithm based on the framework is essentially a distributed encoding procedure for a Reed--Solomon code (each compute node is tasked to produce one or more symbols of the codeword), which enables (a) robustness against byzantine adversarial failures with intrinsic error-correction and identification of failed nodes, and (b) independent randomized verification to check the entire computation for correctness, which takes essentially no more resources than each node individually contributes to execute the computation. The framework also enables smooth tradeoffs between per-node compute time and the number of nodes used for computation. The framework builds on recent MerlinArthur proofs of batch evaluation of Williams [Proc. 31st IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC'16, May 29--June 1, 2016, Tokyo), 2:117] with the basic observation that Merlin's magic is not needed for batch evaluation---mere Knights can prepare the independently verifiable proof, in parallel, and with intrinsic error-correction. [This is joint work with Andreas Björklund (Lund University).] Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2933057.2933101
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Teemu Saksala (University of Helsinki)
How to find the Riemannian structure from the solution mapping of a wave equation on a manifold?
Wednesday 26 October 2016,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
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Seminar on analysis and geometry

Marc Lelarge (École Normale Supérieure & INRIA)
Community Detection with the Non-Backtracking Operator
Tuesday 25 October 2016,   15:15,   M1 (M232)
Community detection consists in identification of groups of similar items within a population. In the context of online social networks, it is a useful primitive for recommending either contacts or news items to users. We will consider a particular generative probabilistic model for the observations, namely the so-called stochastic block model and prove that the non-backtracking operator provides a significant improvement when used for spectral clustering.
Departmental Colloquim

Florian Kohl (FU Berlin)
HASE --- a program that determines the holes of (pointed) affine semigroups
Tuesday 25 October 2016,   10:15,   M3 (M234)
The question whether there exists an integral solution to the system of linear equations with non-negative constraints, Ax=b, x=> 0, where A and b have integer entries, finds its applications in many areas, such as operation research, number theory, and statistics. In order to solve this problem we have to understand the semigroup generated by the columns of the matrix A and the structure of the holes'' which are the difference between the semigroup generated by the columns of the matrix A and its saturation. In this talk, we will describe the algorithm to compute the set of holes of the semigroup developed by Hemmecke, Takemura, and Yoshida and we will briefly discuss the implementation. Furthermore, we will talk about applications of our software to problems in combinatorics and statistics such as the normality property of polytopes and the set of holes for the common diagonal affect models. This is joint work with Yanxi Li (University of Kentucky), Ruriko Yoshida (Naval Postgraduate School), and Johannes Rauh (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Engström

Jonas Tölle (Aalto)
CANCELED
Friday 21 October 2016,   14:15,   Kumpula C123
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Mikael Laaksonen
Introduction to multi-parametric eigenvalue problems
Wednesday 19 October 2016,   16:00,   M203
Seminar on Applied Mathematics

Matti Karppa (Aalto University, Department of Computer Science)
Explicit correlation amplifiers for finding outlier correlations in deterministic subquadratic time
Wednesday 19 October 2016,   15:15,   M2 (M233)
We derandomize G. Valiant's [J. ACM 62 (2015) Art. 13] subquadratic-time algorithm for finding outlier correlations in binary data. Our derandomized algorithm gives deterministic subquadratic scaling essentially for the same parameter range as Valiant's randomized algorithm, but the precise constants we save over quadratic scaling are more modest. Our main technical tool for derandomization is an explicit family of correlation amplifiers built via a family of zigzag-product expanders in Reingold, Vadhan, and Wigderson [Ann. of Math. 155 (2002) 157--187].
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Viveka Erlandsson (Aalto Science Institute)
Word length in surface groups and counting curves on surfaces
Wednesday 19 October 2016,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Let S be a surface of genus g and r punctures, and c a (not necessarily simple) closed curve on S. Consider the set of curves in the mapping class group orbit of c. Recently, Mirzakhani has shown that when S is endowed with a hyperbolic metric, the cardinality of the subset defined by the curves with length bounded by L is asymptotic to a constant times L^{6g-6+2r}, as L grows. In this talk we discuss the asymptotic growth of subsets with bounded complexity, for different notions of complexity. In particular we will discuss the case of curves with bounded word length and show that the same asymptotics hold in this case.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Anders Karlsson (Univ. Geneva and Uppsala Univ.)
New general ergodic theorems, invariant metrics and their functionals
Wednesday 19 October 2016,   10:15,   M2 (M233)
In complex analysis invariant metrics have played an important role in the understanding of holomorphic maps ever since Picks reformulation of the Schwarz lemma in terms of the hyperbolic distance. A century has passed, and the geometry of metric spaces has become much more developed and appears in a variety of subjects. In analogy with functional analysis one defines metric functionals (an extension of Busemann functions) in particular to get a notion of weak compactness. In a recent joint work with S. Gouëzel, a substantial refinement of Kingmans subadditive ergodic theorem is established and we use it to prove a multiplicative ergodic theorem (or a non-commutative law of large numbers) for maps semi-preserving a metric, formulated in terms of metric functionals. This applies in many contexts using the geometry of the relevant metric spaces, in particular it recovers Oseledets important theorem which is like a spectral theorem for products of random matrices. Our theorem also applies to bounded operators, holomorphic self-maps, and random walks on finitely generated groups.

Emanuele Ventura
Real Rank Geometry of Ternary Forms
Tuesday 18 October 2016,   10:15,   M2 (M233)
We study real ternary forms whose real rank equals the generic complex rank, and we characterize the semialgebraic set of sums of powers representations with that rank. Complete results are obtained for quadrics and cubics. For quintics we determine the real rank boundary: it is a hypersurface of degree 168. For quartics, sextics and septics we identify some of the components of the real rank boundary. The real varieties of sums of powers are stratified by discriminants that are derived from hyperdeterminants. This is a joint work with Michalek, Moon, and Sturmfels.

Jukka Lempa (University of Turku)
Optimal Portfolios in Commodity Futures Markets
Monday 17 October 2016,   15:15,   M3 (M234)
Abstract: We consider portfolio optimization in futures markets. We model the entire futures price curve at once as a solution of a stochastic partial differential equation. The agents objective is to maximize her utility from the final wealth when investing in futures contracts. We study a class of futures price curve models which admit a finite-dimensional realization. Using this, we recast the portfolio optimization problem as a finite-dimensional control problem and study its solvability. The talk is based on joint work with Fred Espen Benth (Uni. Oslo)
Aalto Stochastics & Statistics Seminar / Ilmonen-Kytölä-Leskelä

Wendolín Damián González (University of Helsinki)
Weighted compactness of bilinear commutators
Friday 14 October 2016,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Riikka Schroderus (University of Helsinki)
The spectra of linear fractional composition operators on weighted Dirichlet spaces
Wednesday 12 October 2016,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
We will consider composition operators induced by linear fractional self-maps of the unit disc. We determine the spectra of these operators on the weighted Dirichlet spaces (including the classical Dirichlet, Hardy and Bergman spaces). As we will see, the spectrum depends heavily on the properties of the inducing map. If time permits, we will also compare the spectral results in the unit disc setting to the corresponding case of the half-plane. This is joint work with Eva Gallardo-Gutiérrez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Mikko Kivelä (Aalto University)
Multilayer networks
Tuesday 11 October 2016,   15:15,   AScI lounge (TUAS 3161)
Network science has been very successful in investigations of a wide variety of applications from biology and the social sciences to physics, technology, and more. In many situations, it is already insightful to use a simple (and typically naive) representation as a simple, binary graph in which nodes are entities and unweighted edges encapsulate the interactions between those entities. This allows one to use the powerful methods and concepts for example from graph theory, and numerous advances have been made in this way. However, as network science has matured and (especially) as ever more complicated data has become available, it has become increasingly important to develop tools to analyse more complicated structures. For example, many systems that were typically initially studied as simple graphs are now often represented as time-dependent networks, networks with multiple types of connections, or interdependent networks. This has allowed deeper and more realistic analyses of complex networked systems, but it has simultaneously introduced mathematical constructions, jargon, and methodology that are specific to research in each type of system. Recently, the concept of "multilayer networks" was developed in order to unify the aforementioned disparate language (and disparate notation) and to bring together the different generalised network concepts that included layered graphical structures. In this talk, I will introduce multilayer networks and discuss how to study their structure. Generalisations of the clustering coefficient for multiplex networks and graph isomorphism for general multilayer networks are used as illustrative examples.
AScI Large Structures Seminar / Freij-Hollanti, Kubjas, Rayneau-Kirkhope

Alexander Engström
Graphs of four-dimensional polytopes
Tuesday 11 October 2016,   10:15,   M2 (M233)

Christian Webb (Aalto)
Statistical behavior of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line
Monday 10 October 2016,   15:15,   M3 (M234)
I will discuss a limit theorem describing the behavior of the Riemann zeta function in the vicinity of a random point high up on the critical line.
Stochastics and statistics seminar

Rolf Stenberg
A posteriori estimates for eigenvalue problems
Monday 10 October 2016,   14:15,   M2 (M233)
Seminar on Applied Mathematics

Christopher Hopper (Aalto)
Regularity Aspects of Manifold-Constrained Minimisers in the Calculus of Variations
Friday 07 October 2016,   14:15,   Kumpula C123
Harmonic analysis and PDE seminar

Ferdinand Blomqvist
The closest vector problem and quotients
Wednesday 05 October 2016,   15:15,   M2 (M233)
Let L be a lattice, i.e., a discrete subgroup of R^n, and K a sublattice of L. We show that, if we can solve the closest vector problem (CVP) for both K and L/K, then we can solve it for L. Furthermore, we show that solving the CVP for L/K is not harder than solving it for L. In addition, we show how to use this result to construct efficient algorithms for certain instances of the CVP. Finally, we note that these results are not limited to lattices, but also hold in a more general setting.
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Tuomas Orponen (University of Helsinki)
Quantitative rectifiability in three-space (with Euclidean and Heisenberg geometries).
Wednesday 05 October 2016,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
The topic of this talk are sets in three-space, which contain big pieces of Lipschitz surfaces. In R^3, a theorem of David and Semmes characterises such sets via two conditions: big projections and small beta-numbers. I will review this result, present key steps of the proof, and then discuss a recent extension of the result in the first Heisenberg group by V. Chousionis, K. Fässler and myself.
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Emanuele Ventura
Real rank of Monomials
Tuesday 04 October 2016,   10:15,   M2 (M233)
n this talk we study the real rank of monomials and we give an upper bound for it. We show that the real and the complex ranks of a monomial coincide if and only if the least exponent is equal to one. This is a joint work with E. Carlini, M. Kummer, and A. Oneto.

Joonas Turunen (University of Helsinki)
Boltzmann triangulations with Ising model on faces
Monday 03 October 2016,   15:15,   M3 (M234)
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We consider the Boltzmann random triangulation of a polygon coupled with critical Ising model on its faces with Dobrushin boundary conditions and arbitrary boundary length. We derive an explicit expression of the partition function at the critical point and show that the exponent of the large perimeter asymptotics of the model is 7/3 instead of 5/2 for uniform triangulations. Then we show that any Ising interface only touches the boundary of the half plane a finite number of times as the perimeter tends to infinity. We also construct an infinite Ising triangulation of the half plane with Dobrushin boundary conditions, which we conjecture to be the local limit of finite Boltzmann Ising triangulations with a Dobrushin boundary in the sense of Benjamini-Schramm as the perimeter goes to infinity. This is a joint ongoing work with Linxiao Chen (University of Paris-Sud).
Aalto Stochastics & Statistics Seminar (Ilmonen-Kytölä-Leskelä)

Kangwei Li (University of Helsinki)
Sparse domination theorem and weighted norm inequalities
Friday 30 September 2016,   14:15,   M3 (M234)
Harmoic analysis and PDE seminar

David Karpuk (Aalto University)
An Algebraic Approach to Private Information Retrieval
Wednesday 28 September 2016,   15:15,   M2 (M233)
ANTA Seminar: Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications to Communications and Computing / Karpuk, Kaski, Hollanti, Greferath

Lauri Hitruhin (University of Helsinki)
On the pointwise rotation for mappings with exponentially integrable distortion
Wednesday 28 September 2016,   12:15,   M3 (M234)
Seminar on analysis and geometry

Prof. Moritz Kassmann (Universität Bielefeld)
Nonlocal differential operators of arbitrary order between zero and two
Tuesday 27 September 2016,   15:15,   M1 (M232)
Differential operators of fractional order have been studied since the early 19th century. Recently, a certain subclass has gained a lot of attention. These operators are related to semi-groups and stochastic processes in a natural way. In the talk we will introduce these operators and present basic results as well as major challenges for related linear and nonlinear equations.
Departmental Colloquim

Yury Elkin
Topological applications to robots
Tuesday 27 September 2016,   10:15,   M2 (M233)
We survey topological applications to robots, in particular papers by Ardilla, Ghrist, and their co-authors.

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