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This week we are very happy to have Luca Battistella (University of Heidelberg). The talk will be in person, 3pm, in Weber 201. Lunch with the speaker (subsidized for grad students) will happen around 12noon - meet in the lobby if interested. Title: Logarithmic and orbifold Gromov-Witten invariants Abstract: Logarithmic Gromov-Witten theory can be thought […]

Scientific software ecosystems and communities: Why we need them and how each of us can help them thrive Software is a cornerstone of long-term collaboration and scientific progress, but software complexity is increasing due to disruptive changes in computer architectures and the challenges of next-generation science. Thus, the high-performance computing (HPC) community has the unique […]

Mathematics faculty and graduate students are invited to attend the PhD Preliminary Examination of Justin O’Connor. Advisor:  Dr. Wolfgang Bangerth Committee:  Dr. Patrick Shipman, Dr. James Liu, Dr. Christopher Weinberger Topology Optimization asks what shape is best to perform some task governed by a partial differential equation (PDE). This has many far-reaching applications related to […]

Let X be a smooth variety or orbifold and let Z be a complete intersection in X defined by a section of a vector bundle E over X. Originally proposed by Givental, quantum Serre duality refers to a precise relationship between the Gromov-Witten invariants of Z and those of the dual vector bundle E^\vee. In […]

The next QSIDE colloquium (https://qsideinstitute.org/events/qside-colloquium/) is Thursday March 10, at 2pm Mountain (=4pm Eastern). The virtual talk will consist of around 40 minutes of presentation by the speaker and 20 minutes of Q+A from both panel and general participants. After the talk, there will be a 30 minute tea time conversation you are welcome to […]

Title:  Robust Optimization-based Solvers and Smooth Reformulations for 3D Contact Contact is ubiquitous and often unavoidable, and yet modeling contacting systems continues to stretch the limits of available computational tools. In part, this is due to the unique hurdles posed by contact problems. Several intricately intertwined physical and geometric factors make contact computations hard, especially […]