Events and Activities

Explore current and upcoming events and activities happening at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Feb
11
2026

Mathematical Conversations

Lost in a Rough Flow
6:00pm|Simons Hall Dilworth Room

A Lipschitz velocity field gives a reassuring picture of particle motion: each starting point traces a single, well-defined trajectory. But many velocity fields arising in geometry, kinetic theory, and fluid dynamics are far rougher, and then the...

Feb
12
2026

Special Year Research Seminar

Log-Noetherian Functions
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

I'll talk about the o-minimal structures R_LN and R_{LN,exp} where one has an effective form of the finiteness property of o-minimality. Unlike the more classical structure of Pfaffian function, R_{LN,exp} contains the period integrals for aribtrary...

Feb
12
2026

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory

Kudla's Modularity Conjecture
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Kudla and Millson proved in the 80's that the generating series of special cycles in orthogonal and unitary Shimura varieties are modular forms and a well-established conjecture of Kudla asks about extensions to toroidal compactifications. In this...

Feb
16
2026

Members' Colloquium

Between Schanuel's Conjecture and Fuglede's Conjecture
1:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

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...