Previous Conferences & Workshops

Dec
04
2023

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Toward Better Depth Lower Bounds: A KRW-like Theorem for Strong Composition
Or Meir
11:15am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

One of the major open problems in complexity theory is proving super-logarithmic lower bounds on the depth of circuits. Karchmer, Raz, and Wigderson (Computational Complexity 5(3/4), 1995) suggested approaching this problem by proving that depth...

Dec
01
2023

Joint IAS/PU Analysis Seminar

Renormalization Group and Homogenization
Scott Armstrong
4:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I will describe some new "coarse-graining" methods in quantitative homogenization and how they can be used to give rigorous versions of certain heuristic "renormalization group" arguments in physics, with a focus on several examples.

Dec
01
2023

Joint IAS/PU Analysis Seminar

Higher Dimensional Fractal Uncertainty
Alex Cohen
2:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

A fractal uncertainty principle (FUP) roughly says that a 
function and its Fourier transform cannot both be concentrated on a 
fractal set. These were introduced to harmonic analysis in order to 
prove new results in quantum chaos: if eigenfunctions...

Dec
01
2023

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What is an Incompressible Surface in a 3-Manifold?
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

For a low-dimensional manifold, one often tries to understand its intrinsic topology and geometry through its submanifolds, in particular of co-dimension 1. To be interesting and to give some information, such a submanifold should interact with the...

Nov
30
2023

Joint PU/IAS Number Theory

Boundary Cohomology of Well-Positioned Subschemes of Integral Models of Shimura Varieties
Kai-Wen Lan
4:30pm|Institute for Advanced Study, Simonyi Hall, Room 101

I will first review what we know about the toroidal and minimal compactifications of Shimura varieties and their integral models, and the well-positioned subschemes of these integral models.  Then I will explain some p-adic analogues of Harris and...

Nov
29
2023

Special Year Seminar

On Cohomology of BG
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Cohomology of classifying space/stack of a group G is the home which resides all characteristic classes of G-bundles/torsors. In this talk, we will try to explain some results on Hodge/de Rham cohomology of BG where G is a $p$-power order...

Nov
28
2023

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Weighted Pseudorandom Generators via Inverse Analysis of Random Walks and Shortcutting
William Hoza
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

A weighted pseudorandom generator (WPRG) is a generalization of a pseudorandom generator (PRG) in which, roughly speaking, probabilities are replaced with weights that are permitted to be positive or negative. In this talk, we present new explicit...