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Accelerated gradient descent iterations are widely used in optimization. It is known that, in the continuous-time limit, these iterations converge to a second-order differential equation which we refer to as the accelerated gradient flow.…
These are the (somewhat extended) lecture notes for four lectures delivered at the spring school during the thematic programme "Mathematical Perspectives of Gravitation beyond the Vacuum Regime" at ESI Vienna in February 2022.
In these notes of lectures at the 2004 Summer School of Mathematical Physics in Ravello, Italy, the author develops an approach to calculus in which more efficient choices of limits are taken at key points of the development. For example,…
This paper contains the written notes of a course the author gave at the VIASM of Hanoi in the Summer 2018. It provides an elementary introduction to the analytic naive theory of Drinfeld modular forms for the simplest 'Drinfeld modular…
These are notes based on lectures given at the 2021 summer school on Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics XV. Their purpose is to give a very brief introduction to Generalized Hydrodynamics, which provides a description of the large…
In this lectures given at the Morning side center of Mathematics in October 2016, we present in a very simple framework Hilbertian hypocoercive methods in the case of 1d kinetic inhomogeneous equations, and some illustrations concerning…
These notes are for the author's lectures, "Integral Reduction and Applied Algebraic Geometry Techniques" in the School and Workshop on Amplitudes in Beijing 2016. I introduce the applications of algebraic geometry methods on multi-loop…
These informal notes are an expanded version of lectures on the moduli space of elliptic curves given at Zhejiang University in July, 2008. Their goal is to introduce and motivate basic concepts and constructions (such as orbifolds and…
These notes represent approximately one semester's worth of lectures on introductory general relativity for beginning graduate students in physics. Topics include manifolds, Riemannian geometry, Einstein's equations, and three applications:…
Lecture notes accompanying an 8hr hour mini-course on SPDE given at Bo\u{g}azi\c{c}i University, Istanbul in June/July 2025. They are based on earlier notes of a shorter mini-course given at the University of Oxford in 2021. The main focus…
This work provides a comprehensive derivation of the parameter gradients for GATv2 [4], a widely used implementation of Graph Attention Networks (GATs). GATs have proven to be powerful frameworks for processing graph-structured data and,…
These are notes from a 15 week course aimed at graduate mathematicians. They provide an essentially self-contained introduction to some of the ideas and terminology of QFT.
The main goal of these lectures -- introduction to Quantum Mechanics for mathematically-minded readers. The second goal is to discuss the mathematical interpretation of the main quantum postulates: transitions between quantum stationary…
Lecture Notes based on the course given at Toulouse School of Economics, on Fall 2024. It contains a quick introduction to the field of bilevel optimization, following a perspective from Variational Analysis.
This is a sequel to our paper `On the kernel learning problem'. We identify a canonical choice of Riemannian gradient flow, to find the stationary points in the kernel learning problem. In the presence of Gaussian noise variables, this flow…
We investigate a variational approach to nonpotential perturbations of gradient flows of nonconvex energies in Hilbert spaces. We prove existence of solutions to elliptic-in-time regularizations of gradient flows by combining the…
Gradient schemes is a framework which enables the unified convergence analysis of many different methods -- such as finite elements (conforming, non-conforming and mixed) and finite volumes methods -- for $2^{\rm nd}$ order diffusion…
Existing analyses of optimization in deep learning are either continuous, focusing on (variants of) gradient flow, or discrete, directly treating (variants of) gradient descent. Gradient flow is amenable to theoretical analysis, but is…
These draft notes are from a graduate course given by the author in Berkeley during the spring semester of 2005. They cover the basic ideas of a new, geometric approach to geometric measure theory. They begin with a new theory of exterior…
This note proposes a new notion of a gradient-like vector field and discusses its implications for the theory of Stein and Weinstein structures.