Speaker:Don ZagierMax Planck Institute for MathematicsDon Zagier is a pure mathematician of broad interests, but working primarily in the domain of number theory and the theory of modular forms and their applications in other areas ranging from knot theory to mathematical physics.Member of the National Academy of Sciences 2017. Honorary member of the London Mathematical Society since 2019. Fud...
Abstract:The ideas of renormalization was introduced into dynamics around 40 years ago. By now renormalization is one of the most powerful tools in the asymptotic analysis of dynamical systems. In this talk I will discuss the main conceptual features of the renormalization approach,and present a selection of recent results. I will also discuss open problems and formulate related conjectures.Sp...