Events and Activities

Abstract: The Swampland Cobordism conjecture asserts that in quantum gravity, any spacetime can terminate, i.e., the cobordism group of quantum gravity is trivial. A striking consequence of this conjecture is that it predicts the existence of...

I will describe an application of point-counting on tame real sets and functional transcendence to a problem in harmonic analysis. I will touch on the traditional diophantine applications of these ideas to highlight the new features of this not-so...

The main goal of this talk is to state a conjectural formula for the compactly supported cohomology of  $\Gamma$ \ $G$ / $K$ when $G$ is a semisimple real group with maximal compact $K$, and $\Gamma$ is a congruence subgroup. The formula gives a...

Over the past 50 years, cryptographers have constructed a number of surprising and important primitives like public-key encryption, which allows strangers to communicate privately even if eavesdroppers hear everything they say. However, there are...

This semester, we will be beginning a *very informal* get-together every Monday of people interested in/working on phenomenology and new theories beyond the standard model.  The idea is to discuss over lunch, perhaps meet up around 12.20, grab lunch...