Events and Activities

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

May
26
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

An Average-Degree Bound for Hamming Hypergraphs, with Applications to Optimal PAC Learning
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I will describe recent breakthrough results in multiclass PAC learning that characterize the optimal sample complexity. The talk will discuss recent work of Chirag Pabbaraju, as well as work of Steve Hanneke, Qinglin Meng, Shay Moran, and Amirreza...

May
26
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

An Average-Degree Bound for Hamming Hypergraphs, with Applications to Optimal PAC Learning
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I will describe recent breakthrough results in multiclass PAC learning that characterize the optimal sample complexity. The talk will discuss recent work of Chirag Pabbaraju, as well as work of Steve Hanneke, Qinglin Meng, Shay Moran, and Amirreza...

May
28
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

How to Sketch a Learning Algorithm
Sam Gunn
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

How does the choice of training data influence an AI model? This question is of central importance to interpretability, privacy, and basic science.  At its core is the data deletion problem: after a reasonable amount of precomputation, quickly...

May
28
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

How to Sketch a Learning Algorithm
Sam Gunn
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

How does the choice of training data influence an AI model? This question is of central importance to interpretability, privacy, and basic science.  At its core is the data deletion problem: after a reasonable amount of precomputation, quickly...

May
28
2026

Special Year Research Seminar

Multisummability Relative to Certain Quasianalytic Classes
Patrick Speissegger
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

Using Tougeron’s characterization of multisummable (in the positive real directions) series, the latter can be viewed as infinite series of convergent power series with radii of convergence shrinking to 0. In joint work with Jean-Philippe Rolin and...

May
29
2026

IAS/Princeton/Montreal/Paris/Tel-Aviv Symplectic Geometry Zoominar

$C^0$-rigidity in contact topology via microlocal sheaf theory.
Wenyuan Li
9:15am|Remote Access

Contact homeomorphisms are points in the closure of the (compactly supported) contactomorphism group in the homeomorphism group under the $C^0$-topology. Recently, Dimitroglou Rizell and Sullivan showed that the images of closed Legendrians under...

Jun
01
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Expanders Meet Reed-Muller: Easy Instances of Noisy k-XOR
Jarosław Błasiok
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

In the noisy $k$-XOR problem, one is given $y \in \bF_2^\constraints$ and must distinguish between $y$ uniform and $y = A x + e$, where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of a $k$-left-regular bipartite graph with variables and constraints, $x\in \bF_2^...

Jun
01
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Expanders Meet Reed-Muller: Easy Instances of Noisy k-XOR
Jarosław Błasiok
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

In the noisy $k$-XOR problem, one is given $y \in \bF_2^\constraints$ and must distinguish between $y$ uniform and $y = A x + e$, where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of a $k$-left-regular bipartite graph with variables and constraints, $x\in \bF_2^...

Jun
02
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Algebraic Expander Codes
Itzhak Tamo
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

By combining sparse graphs with local constraints, expander codes offer a powerful framework for achieving fast decoding algorithms while maintaining asymptotically good rate and minimum distance. However, the standard constraint-counting arguments...

Jun
02
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Algebraic Expander Codes
Itzhak Tamo
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

By combining sparse graphs with local constraints, expander codes offer a powerful framework for achieving fast decoding algorithms while maintaining asymptotically good rate and minimum distance. However, the standard constraint-counting arguments...