Polyxeni Spilioti
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Göttingen in the group of Thomas Schick and member of the Research Training Group (RTG) Fourier Analysis and Spectral Theory.
Before, I held postdoctoral positions at Aarhus University in the group of Jan Frahm, at the University of Tuebingen in the group of Anton Deitmar and visiting postdoctoral positions
at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.
I received my PhD from the University of Bonn, under the supervision of Werner Mueller.
News!
- Analytic torsion and interactions 2–6 September 2024, Münster, Germany
- Branching Problems for Representations of Real, p-Adic and Adelic Groups. Banff International Research Station, UBC Okanagan campus in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, July 7-12, 2024.
- 2nd Workshop of Greek Women in Mathematics, 4-5 July 2024, Department of Mathematics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- The association Greek Women in Mathematics launches a mentoring program!
Research interests: Harmonic analysis on locally symmetric spaces, trace formulas, dynamical zeta functions of Ruelle and Selberg, refined analytic torsion, prime geodesic theorem
Contact: Mathematisches Institut, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Bunsenstraße 3-5, D-37073 Göttingen
E-mail: polyxeni.spilioti@mathematik.uni-goettingen.de
The field of spectral geometry concerns with the connections between the geometry of manifolds and the spectrum of differential operators. The spectrum of the Laplace operator plays a crucial role in the inverse spectral problems. The most famous question relative to these problems was posed by Marc Kac in mid-60's :
" Can one hear the shape of a drum ? "
The answer is not always positive, in particular when we deal with manifolds with singularities. This question can be alternatively expressed as:
"How can one obtain information about the geometry of a manifold, such as the volume, the curvature, or the length of the closed geodesics, provided that we can
study the spectrum of certain differential operators? "
Harmonic analysis on locally symmetric spaces provides a powerful machinery in studying various invariants, such as the analytic torsion, as well as the dynamical zeta functions of Ruelle and Selberg.