Previous Conferences & Workshops

Dec
08
2025

Joint IAS/PU Arithmetic Geometry

Frobenius Lifting and a Geometric Theory of Companion Forms
Vincent Pilloni
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

We describe the obstruction to lift Frobenius on certain Shimura varieties and apply this to the theory of companion forms for classical modular forms (Gross, Coleman-Voloch, Faltings-Jordan) and also in higher dimension.

Dec
08
2025

Members' Colloquium

New Methods in Resolution of Singularities
1:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Since Hironaka's famous resolution of singularities in characteristics zero in 1964, it took about 40 years of intensive work of many mathematicians to simplify the method, describe it using conceptual tools and establish its functoriality. However...

Dec
08
2025

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Trickle-down Theorems for High-dimensional Expanders via Lorentzian Polynomials
Jonathan Leake
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

High-dimensional expanders (HDX) are a generalization of expander graphs which have seen various applications in coding theory, PCPs, pseudorandomness, derandomization, approximate sampling, and beyond. One technique for proving a complex is an HDX...

Dec
04
2025

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory

On Triple Product L-Functions
Miao Gu
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The Poisson summation conjecture of Braverman-Kazhdan, L. Lafforgue, Ngo, and Sakellaridis is an ambitious proposal to prove analytic properties of quite general Langlands L-functions using vast generalizations of the Poisson summation formula. In...

Dec
04
2025

Special Year Research Seminar

Typical and Atypical Intersections: Geometry, Dynamics, and Applications
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

Many geometric spaces carry natural collections of special submanifolds that encode their internal symmetries. Examples include abelian varieties and their sub-abelian varieties, locally symmetric spaces with their totally geodesic subspaces, period...

Dec
03
2025

Mathematical Conversations

Mathematics of the Heart and Spirit: Some Thoughts on Grothendieck
6:00pm|Rubenstein Commons | Meeting Room 5

Alexander Grothendieck was one of the greatest thinkers, and one of the most unusual personalities, in the history of science.  In addition to some biographical details, this talk will offer a perspective on his approach to mathematics.

Dec
03
2025

Special Year Learning Seminar

Logarithmic Geometry and Hodge Theory
Michael Barz
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

Ben Bakker explained to us how to construct moduli spaces of polarized Hodge structures, and then produced period maps associated to families of smooth projective varieties. However, in practice one often encounters a family of smooth varieties...

Dec
02
2025

Joint IAS/PU Groups and Dynamics Seminar

Strong Spectral Gap for Geometrically Finite Hyperbolic Manifolds
Dubi Kelmer
4:30pm|Simonyi 101

In this talk I will describe new results establishing the existence of a strong spectral gap for  geometrically finite, n dimensional, hyperbolic manifold with critical exponent greater than $(n-1)/2$. This settles a conjecture of Mohammadi and Oh...

Dec
02
2025

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Linial-Meshulam Complexes 2
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Last week we defined the Linial--Meshulam model for random 2 dimensional simplicial complexes and discussed two notions of connectivity for it: Vanishing of its 1st cohomology with F2 coefficients, and vanishing of its fundamental group. This time...