Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) surfaces are random topological surfaces which are important in statistical mechanics and have deep connections to other mathematical objects such as Schramm–Loewner evolution and random planar maps. These random surfaces are too singular and fractal in the sense that the Hausdorff dimension, viewed as a metric space equipped with its intrinsic metric, is strictly bigger than two. I will talk about the interesting geometric structure and recent progress on LQG surfaces.

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The new infectious disease are emerging around the world. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by a novel coronavirus has emerged and has been rapidly spreading. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Mathematical modelling plays a key role in interpreting the epidemiological data on the outbreak of infectious disease. Moreover, mathematical modeling can give us an early warning about the size of the outbreak. First, we construct a mathematical model to estimate the effective reproduction numbers, which assess the effect of control interventions. Second, we forecast the COVID-19 cases according to the different effect of control interventions. Finally, the most effective intervention can be suggested in terms of modeling approach. In this talk, I’d like to briefly introduce the main results of recent research on the mathematical modeling for various infectious diseases.

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I will give an introduction to the Monstrous moonshine conjectures of 70's-80's, which are on remarkable relations between Klein's j-invariant in number theory and the Monster sporadic simple group. I will only assume mild basic knowledge of complex analysis and group theory. I will start from a brief introduction to modular forms and Hauptmoduln, then connect it to finite simple groups. If I can manage the time, I will briefly explain a hint to a connection to the 3d gravity theory. https://kaist.zoom.us/j/84619675508

We introduce a distribution-theoretic conjecture of Roert Coleman of the 1980's and prove the conjecture in a recent joint work with Burns and Daoud. This accordingly gives an explicit description of the complete set of Euler systems for the multiplicative group over Q together with a connection to other conjectures in number theory.