Events and Activities

In this talk we present explicit bounds for the Weil height and the number of integral points on classical surfaces first studied by Clebsch (1871) and Klein (1873). Building on Hirzebruch's work in which he related these surfaces to a Hilbert...

Combinatorial discrepancy asks the following question: Given a ground set U and a collection S of subsets of U, how do we color each element in U red or blue so that each subset in S has almost an equal number of each color? A straightforward idea is...

Steven will cover the material from the first two lectures by Peter Scholze (available electronically at http://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/scholze/Condensed.pdf). In particular, he will introduce the notion of condensed set and condensed abelian group.

In this talk, I will present the following two connections between private optimization and statistical physics, both via the problem of approximating a given covariance matrix with a low-rank matrix:

1. An efficient algorithm to privately compute a low...