We study the family of Cartan-Schouten connections on Lie groups, parameterized by $\lambda\in[0,1]$, whose geodesics through the identity are one-parameter subgroups. We compute their curvature, torsion, parallel transport, and geodesics, and develop Euler-Poincaré and Lie-Poisson reduction for mechanical systems via these connections, unifying the “minus” and “plus” cases. These inspire us to introduce a connection-dependent variational principle where the Lagrangian is expressed in terms of the parallel-transported velocity, leading to an integro-differential Euler-Lagrange equation that explicitly involves torsion and curvature memory terms. The general framework is illustrated on two concrete examples: the Heisenberg group, where the equations simplify to an ODE system, and the rotation group SO(3), where the integro-differential system is solved numerically via a Magnus expansion.

In this talk, we consider the low regularity well-posedness problem for the Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV) on the real line. Aiming to bridge the regularity gap between the scaling critical space and the known optimal well-posedness in $L^2$-based Sobolev spaces, we consider rough data in Fourier-Lebesgue spaces. Via infinite normal form reductions and exploiting algebraic cancellations, we introduce a new gauged KdV equation, equivalent to the original one at high regularity, but better behaved for rough solutions below the $H^{-1}$-scale. Surprisingly, our method does not rely on the completely integrable structure of KdV and is easily adapted to other equations with quadratic derivative nonlinearities, such as the dispersion-generalized Benjamin-Ono equations.

This talk is based on joint work with Simão Correia (IST, U. Lisboa) and João Pedro Ramos (IMPA).

There are many works on geometric representation theory of quiver varieties and their relation to quantum loop algebras and Yangians. Recently, I have been interested in their variants, where quiver varieties are replaced by σ-quiver varieties, the fixed point loci of involutions on quiver varieties. I will explain my recent work on geometric representation theory of σ-quiver varieties and twisted Yangian, focusing on the special case of cotangent bundles of l-step isotropic flag varieties.

We present our solutions to two long standing open problems, one from probability theory formulated by Malyshev in 1970 and another one from a crossroad of geometry and dynamics, going back to Darboux in 1879. The Malyshev problem is of finding effective, explicit necessary and sufficient conditions in the closed form to characterize all random walks in the quarter plane with a finite group of the random walk of order 2n, for all n ≥ 2. Previously known results covered the cases n = 2, 3, and 4. We also describe all n-periodic Darboux transformations for four-bar link problems for all n ≥ 2, thus completely solving the Darboux problem, that he solved for n = 2, and which was recently extended to n = 3. The talk is based on a joint work with Milena Radnovic (arXiv:2512.21976).