# “Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics” by Denis George Mih (Queen Mary University of London)

We analyse the dynamics of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker and Bianchi I cosmologies when considering a viscous fluid. By examining the role of the regulator introduced by Lichnerowicz to avoid the causality issue in Eckart theory, we formulate a dynamical system which we solve analytically in both cosmological models.

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# “Viscous Relativistic Hydrodynamics” by Jordan Marajh (Queen Mary University of London)

What would happen if you threw honey really hard at a black hole as opposed to water?

Mathematicians and physicists of the field studying Einstein’s Field Equations in hopes of explaining physical phenomena know so much about ideal fluids. However, the community requires research into viscous fluids of different types, i.e. admitting different types of viscosity.

We encounter those of bulk and shear viscosity in the hopes of either expanding the viscous terms of the stress-energy tensor and/or changing the physical background. Analysing the dynamical systems is a large focus point for the qualitative understanding of the fluids.

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# “Tensor-Based Approaches to fMRI Classification” by Katherine Keegan (Mary Baldwin University)

To analyze the abundance of multidimensional data, tensor-based frameworks have been developed. Traditional matrix-based frameworks extract the most relevant features of vectorized data using the matrix-SVD. However, we may lose crucial high-dimensional relationships in this process. To facilitate efficient multidimensional feature extraction, we propose a projection-based classification algorithm using the t-SVDM, a tensor-based extension of the matrix-SVD. We apply our algorithm to the StarPlus functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) dataset. Through our numerical experiments, we conclude that there exists a more accurate tensor-based approach to fMRI classification than the best possible equivalent matrix-based approach. Our research showcases the potential of tensor-based classification frameworks, and justifies further research into the usage of tensors for numerous other classification tasks.

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# “Decategorification of HFK_n(L)”  by Larry Gu (USC)

Using a definition of Euler characteristic for fractionally-graded complexes based on roots of unity, we show that the Euler characteristics of Dowlin’s “sl(n)-like” Heegaard Floer knot invariants HFK_n recover both Alexander polynomial evaluations and sl(n) polynomial evaluations at certain roots of unity for links in S^3. We show that the equality of these evaluations can be viewed as the decategorified content of the conjectured spectral sequences relating sl(n) homology and HFK_n. This is joint work with Professor Andy Manion.

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# “Lyapunov-type inequalities for third order nonlinear equations” by Brian Behrens (UConn)

We derive Lyapunov-type inequalities for general third-order nonlinear equations involving multiple ψ-Laplacian operators of the form

$$(\psi_{2}((\psi_{1}(u’))’))’ + q(x)f(u) = 0,$$

where

$$\psi_{2}\text{ and }\psi_{1}$$ are odd, increasing functions, ψ1 is sub-multiplicative and 1/ψ1 is convex, and f is a continuous function which satisfies a sign condition. Our results utilize q+ and q-, as opposed to |q| which appears in most results in the literature. Additionally, these new inequalities cover previously obtained results and notably do not require the use of Holder’s or the Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, unlike other proofs. Furthermore, using the obtained inequalities, we obtain a lower bound for the number of zeroes and properties of oscillatory solutions. We conclude with a constraint on the location of the maximum of a solution.

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