Events and Activities

Organizers: Igor Klebanov and Silviu Pufu

This workshop will be co-sponsored by the Simons Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings.  It will cover a range of topics related to confining gauge theories, such as aspects of lattice gauge theory...

Persistence modules and their barcodes are algebraic tools from topological data analysis. We introduce an invariant of morphisms between persistence modules and discuss its applications to the geometry of Lagrangian cobordisms between Legendrian...

In recent years, many symplectic staircases have been discovered by studying the smallest scaling of a suitable target four-manifold into which an ellipsoid $E(1,a)$ can be symplectically embedded. Such staircases reveal the coexistence of...

Hofer, Wysocki and Zehnder conjectured in the year 2000 that every Reeb flow on the standard contact three-sphere admits either exactly two or infinitely many periodic orbits. This conjecture was settled as a result of joint work with Cristofaro...

In this work we prove that the analytic strongly convex billiards satisfying the Kupka-Smale conditions are generic in the usual analytic topology. As a result, generic convex analytic billiards are maximal chaotic in the sense that for every...

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Gourmet dinner is limited to Institute Members, Faculty, Staff, Friends of the Institute, and their guests.

In the age of AI, is prediction only a matter of finding a better algorithm? Is chaos the last word on unpredictability? Chaos makes prediction sensitive to errors in the initial conditions, but imagine Laplace’s demon, who knows the present exactly...

This event is for IAS Staff.

I will report on a new application of Lagrangian Floer theory in Hamiltonian dynamics, obtained in joint work with Habib Alizadeh. We show that the existence of suitable invariant sets of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism, which are often Lagrangian...