Events and Activities

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

Apr
21
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

A More Efficient Sifting Lemma and a Stronger 3-Player Communication Lower Bound
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

A central goal in complexity theory is to prove separations between randomized and deterministic models of computation. In communication complexity, a key challenge is to establish lower bounds for multiparty protocols in the number-on-forehead (NOF...

Apr
21
2026

Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Frobenius Structures on Quantum Connections of Calabi--Yau 3-Folds
Jae Hee Lee
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The quantum connection is a flat connection arising from genus 0 Gromov--Witten theory. They can be defined integrally for sufficiently positive symplectic manifolds, allowing one to consider their characteristic p or p-adic versions which bear...

Apr
21
2026

Analysis and Mathematical Physics

Dissipation Concentration in Two-Dimensional Fluids
Luigi De Rosa
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

We give several constraints on the dissipation measure arising in the inviscid limit of two-dimensional incompressible fluids under minimal assumptions on the initial datum. None of them is replicable in three dimensions, highlighting the non...

Apr
21
2026

Joint IAS/PU Groups and Dynamics Seminar

On Dimension and Absolute Continuity of Self-Similar Measures.
4:30pm|Simonyi 101

A similarity is a map from $R^d$ to itself that uniformly scales distances. When one repeatedly applies randomly chosen contracting similarities, the resulting Markov chain converges to a limiting stationary distribution known as a self-similar...

Apr
22
2026

Mathematical Conversations

Dropping the Regulator
6:00pm|Birch Garden, Simons Hall

As indicated by its name the regulator governs the behavior of objects, such as class numbers, in various settings. Separating it out, "the fusion problem" is a major challenge.

Apr
23
2026

Special Year Research Seminar

On the Universality of Motivic Cohomology
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

A category of motives is an axiomatic framework in which several cohomology theories from algebraic geometry are represented. While Morel and Voevodsky's classical framework of motivic homotopy theory focused on $A^1$-invariant cohomology theories...

Apr
24
2026

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

Density of Fibers for the Filtered Fukaya Category of a Cotangent Bundle
Stéphane Guillermou
9:15am|Remote Access

A well-known result of Abouzaid says that the wrapped Fukaya category of a cotangent bundle is generated by one cotangent fiber. In the filtered case this is not true, but the filtered Fukaya category comes with a notion of interleaving distance. We...

Apr
24
2026

Special Analysis and Mathematical Physics

Conformal Bootstrap for Probabilistic Models and the Spectral Theory of Automorphic Forms
Dalimil Mazac
4:15pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

The conformal bootstrap has proven very powerful for analyzing reflection-positive conformal models. In my talk, I will review this method and suggest a way to generalize it beyond the reflection-positive case, drawing inspiration from the spectral...