Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
09
2022

Mathematical Conversations

The Crooked Straight
6:00pm|Birch Garden, Simons Hall

Scalar curvature geometry is characterized by remarkable extremality and rigidity properties due to minimal hypersurfaces on the one hand and harmonic spinor fields on the other. Are there hidden connections between these viewpoints? We do not know...

Nov
09
2022

Hermann Weyl Lectures

The Duffin-Schaeffer Conjecture
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Given any non-negative function $\f:\mathbb{Z}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$, it follows from basic ergodic ideas that either 100% of real numbers $\alpha$ have infinitely many rational approximations $a/q$ with $a,q$ coprime and $|\alpha-a/q|

I'll describe a recent resolution of this conjecture, which recasts the problem in combinatorial language, and then uses a general 'structure vs randomness' principle combined with an iterative argument to solve this combinatorial problem.

Nov
09
2022

Special Year Learning Seminar

Topics in Model Theory: Stability, Amalgamation, and Finite Fields
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The goal of this learning seminar is to explain some of the core model theoretic notions which are behind Tao’s algebraic regularity lemma about definable graphs in finite fields (Tao 2012).

We will assume minimal knowledge of model theory and...

Nov
08
2022

Special Year Research Seminar

Measure Growth in Compact Simple Lie Groups
Yifan Jing
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The celebrated product theorem says if A is a generating subset of a finite simple group of Lie type G, then |AAA| \gg \min \{ |A|^{1+c}, |G| \}. In this talk, I will show that a similar phenomenon appears in the continuous setting: If A is a subset...

Nov
08
2022

Special Year Research Seminar

Deviation Spectrum of Ergodic Integrals for Locally Hamiltonian Flows on Surfaces
Krzysztof Fraczek
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The talk will consists of a long historical introduction to  the topic of deviation
of ergodic averages for locally Hamiltonian flows on compact surafces  as well as
some current results obtained in collaboration with Corinna Ulcigrai  and Minsung...

Nov
08
2022

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Introduction to Natural Quasirandomness: Unique Colorability and Orderability
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

The theory of graph quasirandomness studies sequences of graphs that "look like" samples of the Erdős--Rényi random graph. The upshot of the theory is that several ways of comparing a sequence with the random graph turn out to be equivalent. For...

Nov
07
2022

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Functoriality for Fukaya Categories of Very Affine Hypersurfaces
Maxim Jeffs
4:00pm|Fine 314 and Remote Access

A very affine hypersurface is the vanishing locus of a Laurent polynomial in a complex torus; its complement is also a very affine hypersurface, but in two subtly-different ways. The (partially) wrapped Fukaya categories of the hypersurface and its...

Nov
07
2022

Hermann Weyl Lectures

Simultaneous Small Fractional Parts of Polynomials
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Given several real numbers $\alpha_1,...,\alpha_k$, how well can you simultaneously approximate all of them by rationals which each have the same square number as a denominator? Schmidt gave a clever iterative argument which showed that this can be...

Nov
07
2022

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Smoothed Complexity of Local Max-Cut with Two Flips
11:15am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Many algorithms and heuristics that work well in practice have poor performance under the worst-case analysis, due to delicate pathological instances that one may never encounter. To bridge this theory-practice gap, Spielman and Teng introduced the...

Nov
04
2022

Special Year Informal Seminar

Twisted Recurrence in Dynamical Systems
Jiajie Zheng
1:30pm|Simonyi 101

In the study of some dynamical systems, the limsup set of a sequence of measurable sets is often of interest. The shrinking targets and recurrence are two of the most commonly studied problems that concern limsup sets. However, the zero-one laws for...