Geometria Tropical

Localització i feixos
Xavier Xarles (UAB)
Dia: 05/12/2025
Hora: 09:30
Lloc: Dpt Matematiques, Seminari C3B (C3B/158)

Web: Grup de Geometria Aritmètica

Resum: Analitzaré per quines localitzacions es compleix la propietat de feix, per a varies categories de semianells.

Models Estocàstics i Deterministes

Mathematical Models for Understanding and Managing Biological Invasions
Ousmane Seydi (Le Havre University Normandy)
Dia: 02/12/2025
Hora: 17:00
Lloc: Dpt Matematiques, Seminari C3B (C3B/158)

Resum: Invasive species pose major challenges for biodiversity and ecosystem management. In this talk, I will present recent mathematical approaches that help explain how invasions emerge, spread, and can be controlled.
At the early stage of invasion, when populations are small and subject to strong demographic fluctuations, stochastic modeling provides insight into extinction probabilities, invasion thresholds, and spreading speeds. These results offer a foundation for understanding how local conditions and dispersal behavior determine whether an introduced species will persist or vanish.
I will then illustrate how these concepts apply to real ecological systems, focusing on the invasion of the Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) in French forests. An age-structured, spatially explicit model captures how habitat quality and seed dispersal interact to shape invasion patterns and persistence across landscapes.
Finally, I will discuss how mathematical modeling and game-theoretic ideas can inform spatial control strategies, comparing the outcomes of coordinated versus independent management actions.

Diffusion limit for Markovian models of evolution in structured populations with migration
Celia García Pareja (KTH universitetsadjunkt)
Dia: 02/12/2025
Hora: 15:30
Lloc: Dpt Matematiques, Seminari C3B (C3B/158)

Resum: The evolution of microbial subpopulations that migrate within spatial structures has gained interest in recent years. Questions of relevance include, for instance, the ability of a migrant mutant to take over the population (fixate). Estimating fixation probabilities is, however, usually hindered by the lack of analytical formulas and by computational complexity of simulation-based strategies when considering large populations. In this work, we study several population genetics models where the population is divided into $D$ subpopulations (called demes) consisting of two types of individuals, mutants and wild-types, that evolve through discrete Markovian updates. We prove that under certain assumptions all the considered models converge to the same diffusion approximation, which we call \textit{universal}. This diffusion approximation is amenable to simulation strategies that underly methods of statistical inference while significantly reducing computational costs. In all models, each Markovian update follows two phases: First, a local growth phase in each subpopulation, where the growth of each type of individual depends on its fitness, and then a sampling phase that implements migration between subpopulations. Our proof relies on existing diffusion approximation results for degenerate diffusions, see [1], but requires further technicalities due to fact that sample sizes in each deem are not necessarily fixed but change randomly with each update.
This is joint work with Alia Abbara and Anne-Florence Bitbol at EPF Lausanne.

[1] Ethier, S. N.. "A class of degenerate diffusion processes occurring in population genetics." \emph{Comm. Pure Appl. Math.}, vol.~29, no.~5, 1976, pp.~483--493.

Teoria d'Anells

Pure C*-algebras and extensions
Francesc Perera (UAB)
Dia: 03/12/2025
Hora: 10:00
Lloc: Dpt Matematiques, Seminari C3B (C3B/158)

Web: Laboratori d'Interaccions entre Geometria, Àlgebra i Topologia

Resum: In this talk I will review how the concept of pureness (that is, almost unperforation and almost divisibility) is equivalent to the combination of a weak comparison property and what has been termed functional divisibility. I will discuss how said comparison property suffices to show pureness for simple nonelementary, unital C*-algebras with a unique quasitracial state. I will also consider permanence properties of pureness, namely its behaviour under extensions.

Pure C*-algebras and extensions
Francesc Perera (UAB)
Dia: 03/12/2025
Hora: 10:00
Lloc: Dpt Matematiques, Seminari C3B (C3B/158)

Web: Laboratori d'Interaccions entre Geometria, Àlgebra i Topologia

Resum: In this talk I will review how the concept of pureness (that is, almost unperforation and almost divisibility) is equivalent to the combination of a weak comparison property and what has been termed functional divisibility. I will discuss how said comparison property suffices to show pureness for simple nonelementary, unital C*-algebras with a unique quasitracial state. I will also consider permanence properties of pureness, namely its behaviour under extensions.