Events and Activities

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 - Friday, October 2, 2026

Organizers: Andreas Blommaert, Beatrix Muehlmann

This workshop will bring together mathematicians and physicists that have made important contributions to Liouville theory.  

Drop-ins are welcome...

Flies represent nearly 10% of all species described by science and are arguably unmatched among flying organisms in their aerial agility. The flight trajectory of flies often consists of straight flight segments interspersed with rapid changes in...

This event is only for Friends and prospective Friends of the Institute.

Given a hypergraph with edges of size at most $3$, the $3$-set cover problem asks to determine the minimum size of a family of edges that covers the vertex set. As the problem is NP-hard, it is natural to consider its fractional (linear programming)...

Abstract: In this talk I will explain how hierarchies in divisor volumes in Calabi-Yau threefolds give rise to distinctive axion effective theories in string compactifications. I will then provide evidence that distributions of divisor volumes have...

A folklore belief in economics is that "simple auctions" should "perform well" if and only if the auction's participants view the items for sale as substitutes (as opposed to complements). How can this belief be formulated as a precise conjecture...