Previous Conferences & Workshops

Apr
04
2023

Special Year Research Seminar

Polynomial Ergodic Theorems for Strongly Mixing Commuting Transformations
Rigoberto Zelada
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The goal of this talk is to present new results dealing with the asymptotic joint independence properties of commuting strongly mixing transformations along polynomials. These results form natural strongly mixing counterparts to various weakly and...

Apr
04
2023

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Hausdorff Dimension Analogues of the Elekes - Ronyai Theorem and Related Problems
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

If $f$ is a real polynomial and $A$ and $B$ are finite sets of cardinality $n$, then Elekes and Ronyai proved that either $f(A\times B)$ is much larger than $n$, or $f$ has a very specific form (essentially, $f(x,y)=x+y$). In the talk I will tell...

Apr
03
2023

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Braid Stability for Periodic Orbits of Area-preserving Surface Diffeomorphisms
Michael Hutchings
4:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Given an area-preserving surface diffeomorphism, what can one say about the topological properties of its periodic orbits? In particular, a finite set of periodic orbits gives rise to a braid in the mapping torus, and one can ask which isotopy...

Apr
03
2023

Joint IAS/Princeton Arithmetic Geometry Seminar

Functions on the Commuting Scheme Via Langlands Duality
4:00pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 314

I will explain how ideas from the (geometric) Langlands program help solve the following purely algebraic problem: describe the ring of conjugation-invariant functions on the scheme of commuting pairs in a complex reductive group. The answer was...

Apr
03
2023

Members' Colloquium

Simple Zeros of Modular Form L-Functions
Alexandre de Faveri
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access - see Zoom link below

Zeros of L-functions have been extensively studied, due to their close connection to arithmetic problems. Despite several precise conjectures about their behavior, our unconditional understanding of them remains limited. In this talk we will discuss...

Apr
03
2023

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Common Linear Patterns Are Rare
Nina Kamčev
11:15am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Several classical results in Ramsey theory (including famous theorems of Schur, van der Waerden, Rado) deal with finding monochromatic linear patterns in two-colourings of the integers.  Our topic will be quantitative extensions of such results.  A...

Mar
31
2023

Probability Seminar

Fractal properties, noise-sensitivity and chaos in models of random geometry.
Shirshendu Ganguly
11:15am|West Lecture Hall and Remote Access

Planar last passage percolation models are canonical examples of stochastic growth, polymers and random geometry in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, where one considers oriented paths between points in a random environment accruing the...

Mar
31
2023

Marston Morse Lectures

Efficient Stability for the Weyl-Heisenberg Group
Thomas Vidick
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access - see Zoom link below

The question of stability of approximate group homomorphisms was first formulated by Ulam in the 1940s. One of the most famous results in this area is Kazhdan's 1982 result on stability of approximate unitary representations of an amenable group...

Mar
31
2023

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

A Relative Calabi-Yau Structure for Legendrian Contact Homology
Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell
9:15am|Remote Access

The duality long exact sequence relates linearised Legendrian contact homology and cohomology and was originally constructed by Sabloff in the case of Legendrian knots. We show how the duality long exact sequence can be generalised to a relative...