Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
25
2023

Hermann Weyl Lectures

Fourier Uniqueness and Interpolation I, II, III
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access - see Zoom link below

Can we reconstruct a function by knowing only a subset of its values and a subset of the values of the function's Fourier transform?
How many values do we need to know for such a reconstruction? Can we interpolate a given subset of values? What are...

Oct
24
2023

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

An Optimization Perspective on Log-Concave Sampling
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

I will give an introduction to the problem of sampling from a strongly log-concave density on Euclidean space through the lens of convex optimization.  In particular, I will focus on the interpretation, due to Jordan, Kinderlehrer, and Otto, of the...

Oct
23
2023

Condensed Learning Seminar

Solid Modules and Six Functors for Quasi-Coherent Sheaves
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Quasi-coherent sheaves cannot support a six-functor formalism in the same way that e.g. \ell-adic sheaves do. Clausen and Scholze have shown that this can be fixed by extending the category of quasi-coherent sheaves to `solid sheaves’. In this talk...

Oct
23
2023

Members' Colloquium

High Dimensional Variants of the Finite Field Kakeya Problem
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The finite field Kakeya problem asks about the size of the smallest set in (F_q)^n containing a line in every direction.  Raised by Wolff in 1999 as a ‘toy’ version of the Euclidean Kakeya conjecture, this problem is now completely resolved using...

Oct
23
2023

Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Coarse Distance from Dynamically Convex to Convex
Jean Gutt
12:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Chaidez and Edtmair have recently found the first examples of dynamically convex domains in $R^4$ that are not symplectomorphic to convex domains (called symplectically convex domains), answering a long-standing open question. In this talk we shall...

Oct
23
2023

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

A Proof of the RM Code Capacity Conjecture
Emmanuel Abbé
11:15am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In 1948, Shannon used a probabilistic argument to show the existence of codes achieving channel capacity. In 1954, Muller and Reed introduced a simple deterministic code construction, conjectured shortly after to achieve channel capacity. Major...

Oct
20
2023

Analysis and Mathematical Physics

Lipschitz Graphs in Carnot Groups
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Submanifolds with intrinsic Lipschitz regularity in Carnot groups (i.e.,
stratified groups endowed with a sub-Riemannian structure) can be
introduced using the theory of intrinsic Lipschitz graphs started years
ago by B. Franchi, R. Serapioni and F...

Oct
20
2023

What is...?

What is a High Dimensional Expander?
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access
Oct
20
2023

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

Convex Hypersurfaces, Contact Homology, and Relative GW
Russell Avdek
9:15am|Remote Access

While convex hypersurfaces are well understood in 3d contact topology, we are just starting to explore their basic properties in high dimensions. I will describe how to compute contact homologies (CH) of their neighborhoods, which can be used to...