Cubic surfaces in affine three space tend to have few integral points .However certain cubics such as $x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = m$, may have many such points but very little is known. We discuss these questions for Markoff type surfaces: $x^2 +y^2 +z^2 -x\cdot y\cdot z = m$ for which a (nonlinear) descent allows for a study. Specifically that of a Hasse Principle and strong approximation, together with "class numbers" and their averages for the corresponding nonlinear group of morphims of affine three space.[-]

1. We shall briefly describe the ARI-GARI structure; recall its double origin in Analysis and mould theory; explain what makes it so well-suited to the study of multizetas; and review the most salient results it led to, beginning with the exchanger $adari(pal^\bullet)$ of double symmetries $(\underline{al}/\underline{il}) \leftrightarrow (\underline{al}/\underline{al})$, and culminating in the explicit decomposition of multizetas into a remarkable system of irreducibles, positioned exactly half-way between the two classical multizeta encodings, symmetral resp. symmetrel.

2. Although the coloured, esp. two-coloured, multizetas are in many ways more regular and better-behaved than the plain sort, their sheer numbers soon make them computationally intractable as the total weight $\sum s_i$ increases. But help is at hand: we shall show a conceptual way round this difficulty; make explicit its algebraic implementation; and sketch some of the consequences.

A few corrections and comments about this talk are available in the PDF file at the bottom of the page.[-]

Recently, an important research activity on mean field games (MFGs for short) has been initiated by the pioneering works of Lasry and Lions: it aims at studying the asymptotic behavior of stochastic differential games (Nash equilibria) as the number $n$ of agents tends to infinity. The field is now rapidly growing in several directions, including stochastic optimal control, analysis of PDEs, calculus of variations, numerical analysis and computing, and the potential applications to economics and social sciences are numerous.
In the limit when $n \to +\infty$, a given agent feels the presence of the others through the statistical distribution of the states. Assuming that the perturbations of a single agent's strategy does not influence the statistical states distribution, the latter acts as a parameter in the control problem to be solved by each agent. When the dynamics of the agents are independent stochastic processes, MFGs naturally lead to a coupled system of two partial differential equations (PDEs for short), a forward Fokker-Planck equation and a backward Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation.
The latter system of PDEs has closed form solutions in very few cases only. Therefore, numerical simulation are crucial in order to address applications. The present mini-course will be devoted to numerical methods that can be used to approximate the systems of PDEs.
The numerical schemes that will be presented rely basically on monotone approximations of the Hamiltonian and on a suitable weak formulation of the Fokker-Planck equation.
These schemes have several important features:

- The discrete problem has the same structure as the continous one, so existence, energy estimates, and possibly uniqueness can be obtained with the same kind of arguments

- Monotonicity guarantees the stability of the scheme: it is robust in the deterministic limit

- convergence to classical or weak solutions can be proved

Finally, there are particular cases named variational MFGS in which the system of PDEs can be seen as the optimality conditions of some optimal control problem driven by a PDE. In such cases, augmented Lagrangian methods can be used for solving the discrete nonlinear system. The mini-course will be orgamized as follows

1. Introduction to the system of PDEs and its interpretation. Uniqueness of classical solutions.

2. Monotone finite difference schemes

3. Examples of applications

4. Variational MFG and related algorithms for solving the discrete system of nonlinear equations[-]

In the first part, we describe the canonical model structure on the category of strict $\omega$-categories and how it transfers to related subcategories. We then characterize the cofibrant objects as $\omega$-categories freely generated by polygraphs and introduce the key notion of polygraphic resolution. Finally, by considering a monoid as a particular $\omega$-category, this polygraphic point of view will lead us to an alternative definition of monoid homology, which happens to coincide with the usual one.[-]

Le calcul tensoriel sur les variétés différentielles comprend l'arithmétique des champs tensoriels, le produit tensoriel, les contractions, la symétrisation et l'antisymétrisation, la dérivée de Lie le long d'un champ vectoriel, le transport par une application différentiable (pullback et pushforward), mais aussi les opérations intrinsèques aux formes différentielles (produit intérieur, produit extérieur et dérivée extérieure). On ajoutera également toutes les opérations sur les variétés pseudo-riemanniennes (variétés dotées d'un tenseur métrique) : connexion de Levi-Civita, courbure, géodésiques, isomorphismes musicaux et dualité de Hodge.Dans ce cours, nous introduirons tout d'abord la problématique du calcul tensoriel formel, en distinguant le calcul dit “abstrait” du calcul explicite. C'est ce dernier qui nous intéresse ici. Il se ramène in fine au calcul symbolique sur les composantes des champs tensoriels dans un champ de repères, ces composantes étant exprimées en termes des coordonnées d'une carte donnée.
Nous discuterons alors d'une méthode de calcul tensoriel générale, valable sur l'intégralité d'une variété donnée, sans que l'utilisateur ait à préciser dans quels champs de repères et avec quelles cartes doit s'effectuer le calcul. Cela suppose que la variété soit couverte par un atlas minimal, défini carte par carte par l'utilisateur, et soit décomposée en parties parallélisables, i.e. en ouverts couverts par un champ de repères. Ces contraintes étant satisfaites, un nombre arbitraire de cartes et de champs de repères peuvent être introduits, pourvu qu'ils soient accompagnés des fonctions de transition correspondantes.
Nous décrirons l'implémentation concrète de cette méthode dans SageMath ; elle utilise fortement la structure de dictionnaire du langage Python, ainsi que le schéma parent/élément de SageMath et le modèle de coercition associé. La méthode est indépendante du moteur de calcul formel utilisé pour l'expression symbolique des composantes tensorielles dans une carte. Nous présenterons la mise en œuvre via deux moteurs de calcul formel différents : Pynac/Maxima (le défaut dans SageMath) et SymPy. Différents champs d'application seront discutés, notamment la relativité générale et ses extensions.[-]

Given an automorphism of the free group, we consider the mapping torus defined with respect to the automorphism. If the automorphism is atoroidal, then the resulting free-by-cyclic group is hyperbolic by work of Brinkmann. In addition, if the automorphism is fully irreducible, then work of Kapovich-Kleiner proves the boundary of the group is homeomorphic to the Menger curve. However, their proof is very general and gives no tools to further study the boundary and large-scale geometry of these groups. In this talk, I will explain how to construct explicit embeddings of non-planar graphs into the boundary of these groups whenever the group is hyperbolic. Along the way, I will illustrate how our methods distinguish free-by-cyclic groups which are the fundamental group of a 3-manifold. This is joint work with Yael Algom-Kfir and Arnaud Hilion.[-]

In a joint work with Sebastien Biebler, we show the existence of a locally dense set of real polynomial automorphisms of $\mathbb{C}^{2}$ displaying a stable wandering Fatou component; in particular this solves the problem of their existence, reported by Bedford and Smillie in 1991. These wandering Fatou components have non-empty real trace and their statistical behavior is historical with high emergence. The proof follows from a real geometrical model which enables us to show the existence of an open and dense set of $C^{r}$ families of surface diffeomorphisms in the Newhouse domain, each of which displaying a historical, high emergent, wandering domain at a dense set of parameters, for every $2\leq r\leq \infty $ and $r=\omega $. Hence, this also complements the recent work of Kiriki and Soma, by proving the last Taken's problem in the $C^{\infty }$ and $C^{\omega }$-case.[-]

This lecture series will be an introduction to stability conditions on derived categories, wall-crossing, and its applications to birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves. I will assume a passing familiarity with derived categories.

- Introduction to stability conditions. I will start with a gentle review of aspects of derived categories. Then an informal introduction to Bridgeland's notion of stability conditions on derived categories [2, 5, 6]. I will then proceed to explain the concept of wall-crossing, both in theory, and in examples [1, 2, 4, 6].

- Wall-crossing and birational geometry. Every moduli space of Bridgeland-stable objects comes equipped with a canonically defined nef line bundle. This systematically explains the connection between wall-crossing and birational geometry of moduli spaces. I will explain and illustrate the underlying construction [7].

- Applications : Moduli spaces of sheaves on $K3$ surfaces. I will explain how one can use the theory explained in the previous talk in order to systematically study the birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves, focussing on $K3$ surfaces [1, 8].[-]