Events and Activities

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

Mar
10
2026

Workshop on Recent Developments in Hodge Theory and O-minimality

Constructing Holomorphic Functions on Universal Coverings of Complex Algebraic Varieties
Yohan Brunebarbe
10:45am|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: Which complex analytic spaces can arise as the universal cover of a complex algebraic variety? Motivated by this question, Shafarevich asked whether the universal cover of a smooth projective variety X is always holomorphically convex —...

Mar
10
2026

Workshop on Recent Developments in Hodge Theory and O-minimality

Heights of Gross-Schoen and Ceresa Cycles
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: In this talk, we construct a Zariski open dense locus in $M_g$ on which the Beilinson-Bloch height of the Gross-Schoen and Ceresa cycles is a Weil height, i.e. it has a lower bound and satisfies the Northcott property. This implies a...

Mar
10
2026

Princeton University Dark Cosmos Seminar

Freezing-in the Axiverse
Christipher Dessert
4:00pm|Jadwin Hall, Joe Henry Room

Abstract - The presence of light axions in the infrared is a generic feature of many ultraviolet (UV) scenarios, including string theory, with the number of such axions N naturally O(10-100). Even when these axions interact very weakly with the...

Mar
10
2026

Workshop on Recent Developments in Hodge Theory and O-minimality

A Syntomic Perspective on Integral Canonical Models
Alex Youcis
4:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: Since Langlands's earliest paper on his now famous program, canonical integral models of Shimura varieties have occupied a central role in modern number theory. Steady progress has been made in the intervening 50 years toward the correct...