# Events and Activities

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

Apr
16
2021

### Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems

From geometry to topology: inverse theorems for distributed persistence
Paul Bendich
3:00pm|Remote Access

What is the "right" topological invariant of a large point cloud $X$? Prior research has focused on estimating the full persistence diagram of $X$, a quantity that is very expensive to compute, unstable to outliers, and far from a sufficient...

Apr
19
2021

### Members’ Colloquium

No seminar: Morse Lecture
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access
Apr
19
2021

### Marston Morse Lectures

Statistical physics of random CSPs
Nike Sun
3:00pm|Remote Access via Zoom videoconferencing (link below)

I will describe recent progress in determination of asymptotic behavior in random constraint satisfaction problems, including the independent set problem on random graphs, random regular NAE-SAT, and random SAT. The results include sharp phase...

Apr
20
2021

### Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

On Chen’s recent breakthrough on the Kannan-Lovasz-Simonovits conjecture and Bourgain's slicing problem
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access - see Zoom link below

In the mid 80's, Bourgain asked the following question: Is there a universal constant $c>0$ such that every compact convex set $K$ in $R^n$, of unit volume, must contain a slice (namely, a set of the form $K \cap H$ for some affine hyperplane $H$)...

Apr
20
2021

### Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

On Chen’s recent breakthrough on the Kannan-Lovasz-Simonovits conjecture and Bourgain's slicing problem
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access - see Zoom link below

In the mid 80's, Bourgain asked the following question: Is there a universal constant $c>0$ such that every compact convex set $K$ in $R^n$, of unit volume, must contain a slice (namely, a set of the form $K \cap H$ for some affine hyperplane $H$)...

Apr
20
2021

### SL2 Seminar

To Be Announced
6:00pm|Remote Access
Apr
21
2021

### Marston Morse Lectures

Probabilistic analysis of random CSPs
Nike Sun
3:00pm|Remote Access via Zoom videoconferencing (link below)

(This lecture is related to the preceding lecture, but I will try to make it self-contained as much as possible.) In this lecture I will elaborate on some of the existing mathematical approaches to the study of random CSPs, particularly involving...