Radek Suchanek will defend his thesis "Geometric Structures and Methods in View of Their Applications in Mathematical Physics" in the specialization Geometry, Topology and Geometric Analysis of our doctoral programme (chair of the committee - prof. J. Janyška, members - prof. M. Doupovec, prof. V. Roubtsov, prof. J. Slovák, doc. J. Hrdina, referees - I. Roulstone (GB), Giovanni Ortenzi (Italy), Kushner Alexei (Russia).

He studied under two supervisions within a cotutelle agreement, prof. J. Slovák was the supervisor in Brno, prof. Vladimir Roubtsov was the supervisor at the University of Angérs, France.

The defence will take place on 29 March, 2023, 2 pm, in the meeting room of our department. The defence will be also available on ZOOM

The complete archive of the dissertation is HERE.

Innolec lectures dates: 4.4. - 5.4.2023, from 2pm to 4pm, 6.4.2023 from 10am to 11:30am and 1pm to 2:30pm, the lectures will be in the Seminar room on the 1st floor.

Franc Forstnerič, University of Ljubljana

Title: Oka manifolds and applications

Abstract:

I will present some recent developments in the theory of Oka manifolds and their applications. After a brief review of the classical Oka-Grauert theory, I shall recall the notion of an Oka manifold and an Oka map, present the two main characterisations of this class of manifolds and maps, discuss the methods to find new Oka manifolds from known ones, and survey the examples. Time permitting, I shall discuss applications of Oka theory in the classical theory of minimal surfaces in Euclidean spaces.

Dear friends of hikes and mathematics,

you are cordially invited to the 40th mathematical hike. It will take place on March 25th 2023. Start at 08:59 at the bus stop "Jedovnice, náměstí". You can join us going by bus 201 from the bus stop "Stará osada" (departure at 08:15, zones 100+101 and 3 additional).

We have planned a hike of circa 17 km going through the "Moravský kras" to Blansko and to return to Brno by train.

We look forward to seeing you.

Pavel Francírek and Jonatan Kolegar, organizers
Jan Slovák, Director of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science Seminar Series

March 8, 2023 from 4:30 PM at Governor's Palace, Moravské náměstí 1a, Baroque Hall

Tomasz Łuczak

The phase transition phenomena in combinatorial structures

Abstract:

The notion of the phase transition was introduced in physics to describe a wide class of phenomena when a tiny change of parameters can significantly affect the behaviour of the physical system. In the talk we present several results when such a rapid transformation of the structure can be observed and rigorously analysed. Some of them were inspired and anticipated by actual physical phenomena, others emerged naturally in the studies of discrete combinatorial systems.

Tomasz Łuczak is a Polish mathematician working in the field of probabilistic combinatorics. He graduated at Adam Mickiewicz University, where he is now working as professor at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. He has received a number of awards, including EMS Prize, the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science, Kazimierz Kuratowski Prize, Stefan Banach Medal, and Władysław Sierpiński Medal. Since 1998 he is a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.