Events and Activities

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

Sep
17
2024

Special Groups and Dynamics Seminar - Part 1

Spectral Gap of the Laplacian for Random Hyperbolic Surfaces
Nalini Anantharaman
4:00pm|Simonyi 101

Although there are several ways to ''choose a compact hyperbolic surface at random'', putting the Weil-Petersson probability measure on the moduli space of hyperbolic surfaces of a given topology is certainly the most natural. The work of M...

Sep
18
2024

Special Year Seminar I

Toric Vector Bundles
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

This will be an expository talk on the structure and classification of equivariant vector bundles on toric varieties. I will emphasize Klyachko's classification results from the 1980s and 1990s and discuss more recent re-formulations of this...

Sep
18
2024

Special Groups and Dynamics Seminar - Part 2

Spectral Gap of the Laplacian for Random Hyperbolic Surfaces
Nalini Anantharaman
2:30pm|Rubenstein Commons | Meeting Room 5

Although there are several ways to ''choose a compact hyperbolic surface at random'', putting the Weil-Petersson probability measure on the moduli space of hyperbolic surfaces of a given topology is certainly the most natural. The work of M...

Sep
19
2024

Special Year Seminar II

Tropical Vector Bundles
10:00am|Simonyi 101

In this talk, I will describe a new definition, joint with Bivas Khan, for a tropical toric vector bundle on a tropical toric variety. This builds on the tropicalizations of toric vector bundles, and can be used to define tropicalizations of vector...

Sep
20
2024

History of Modern Mathematics: A Conversation

Alma Steingart, Volker Remmert, Rebecca Waldecker, Helmut Hofer and Akshay Venkatesh
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

September 20, 2024 at the Institute for Advanced Study and by Zoom. 

11:00am (ET) Introduction   Karen H Parshall (University of Virginia)...

Sep
23
2024

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

An Improved Line-Point Low-Degree Test
Prahladh Harsha
11:00am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In this talk, I'll show that the most natural low-degree test for polynomials over finite fields is ``robust'' in the high-error regime for linear-sized fields. This settles a long-standing open question in the area of low-degree testing, yielding...

Sep
23
2024

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

An Improved Line-Point Low-Degree Test
Prahladh Harsha
11:00am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In this talk, I'll show that the most natural low-degree test for polynomials over finite fields is ``robust'' in the high-error regime for linear-sized fields. This settles a long-standing open question in the area of low-degree testing, yielding...

Sep
23
2024

Members' Colloquium

Lorentzian Polynomials, Matroids over Hyperfields, and Related Topics
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Lorentzian polynomials serve as a bridge between continuous and discrete convex analysis, with tropical geometry providing the critical link. The tropical connection is used to produce Lorentzian polynomials from discrete convex functions, leading...