I will give a proof of S.Y.  Cheng's conjecture  that a bounded strongly pseudoconvex domain in C^n has  its Bergman metric being Einstein if and only if it is holomorphically equivalent to the ball.

 We consider a family of quasiperiodic solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation on the 2-torus, namely the family of finite-gap solutions (tori). These solutions are inherited by the 2D equation from its completely integrable 1D counterpart (NLS on the circle) by considering solutions that only depend on one variable. Despite being linearly stable, we prove that these tori (under some genericness conditions) are nonlinearly unstable in the following strong sense: there exists solutions that start very close to those tori in certain Sobolev spaces, but eventually become larger than any given factor at later times. This is the first instance where (unstable) long-time nonlinear dynamics near (linearly stable) quasiperiodic tori is studied and constructed. (joint work with M. Guardia (UPC, Barcelona), E. Haus (University of Naples), M. Procesi (Roma Tre), and A. Maspero (SISSA))

 In an exciting paper, J. Bedrossian and N. Masmoudi established the stability of the 2D Couette flow in Gevrey spaces of index greater than 1/2. I will talk about recent joint work with N. Masmoudi, which proves, in the opposite direction, the instability of the Couette flow in Gevrey spaces of index smaller than 1/2. This confirms, to a large extent, that the transient growth predicted heuristically in earlier works does exist and has the expected strength. The proof is based on the fremawork of the stability result, with a few crucial new observations. I will also discuss related works regarding Landau damping, and possible extensions to infinite time.