Events and Activities

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

May
15
2025

Princeton University PCTS Workshop

Extreme Physics of Neutron Star Interiors
8:00am|407 Jadwin Hall, 4th Floor, PCTS Seminar Room

Organizers:Ashley Bransgrove (Princeton), Anirudh Prabhu (Princeton), Peter Rau (Columbia), Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton), Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia)

Free but required in-person registration.This workshop will include a combination of...

May
15
2025

Special Year Seminar II

On the Extremals of the Khovanskii-Teissier Inequality
10:00am|Simonyi 101

The Khovanskii-Teissier inequality provides the fundamental log-concavity property of intersection numbers of divisors of algebraic varieties, extending the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality of convex geometry. In this talk I will explain, and attempt...

May
15
2025

What is...?

What is a p-adic zeta function?
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In the 1850s, Kummer discovered some striking congruences mod powers of a prime number p between values of the Riemann zeta function at negative odd integers.  This was part of his attempt to understand structural aspects of certain algebraic...

May
15
2025

Joint PU/IAS Number Theory

On the Arithmetic of Genus 4 Curves
Jiahui Gao
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

We propose and study a new arithmetic invariant of non-hyperelliptic genus-4 curves: a canonical “quadratic” point on the Jacobian, defined by the two natural degree-2 maps to projective lines. Building on Xue’s result, that this point is...

May
16
2025

Princeton University PCTS Workshop

Extreme Physics of Neutron Star Interiors
8:00am|407 Jadwin Hall, 4th Floor, PCTS Seminar Room

Organizers:Ashley Bransgrove (Princeton), Anirudh Prabhu (Princeton), Peter Rau (Columbia), Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton), Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia)

Free but required in-person registration.This workshop will include a combination of...

May
16
2025

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

Morse Theory of Loop Spaces and Hecke Algebras
Roman Krutowski
9:15am|Remote Access

One can associate an HDHF (symmetric) wrapped Fukaya category to a Liouville domain by counting higher genus curves, which are required to be branched covers. For the cotangent bundle of an orientable surface with genus at least one Honda, Tian, and...

May
23
2025

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

Markov Staircases
Joé Brendel
9:15am|Remote Access

In this talk, we will discuss new infinite symplectic staircases. Much recent progress has been made in the study of infinite symplectic staircases arising from embedding problems of standard ellipsoids into various symplectic four-manifolds. We...