Previous Conferences & Workshops

Sep
16
2022

Probability Seminar

2D Random Geometry and Conformal Field Theory
10:00am|Simonyi 101

Random surfaces and scaling limits of 2D lattice models that are nowadays studied via LQG and SLE in probability, have been studied via  another approach called conformal field theory (CFT) since the 1980s in theoretical physics. There are three...

Sep
09
2022

Probability Seminar

Probabilistic Conformal Block and its Semi-Classical Limit
Promit Ghosal
11:15am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Conformal blocks are fundamental objects in the conformal bootstrap program of 2D conformal field theory and are closely related to four dimensional supersymmetric gauge theory.

In this talk, I will demonstrate a probabilistic construction of a 1...

Jul
25
2022

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Graphs as geometric objects
Nathan Linial
11:15am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

It may seem quite obvious that graphs carry a lot of geometric structure.  Don't we learn in algorithm classes how to solve all-pairs-shortest-paths, minimum spanning trees etc.?  However, in this talk, I will try to impress on you the idea that...

Jun
24
2022

ICM 2022 Preview Talks

1:00pm|Simonyi 101

ICM 2022 will be held virtually this year.  Please join Camillo De Lellis, Ronen Eldan, and Avi Wigderson as they give live presentations of their ICM lectures.  The schedule and abstracts are as follows:

  • 1:00 PM - Camillo De Lellis, IAS
  • 2:00 PM...
Jun
21
2022

50 Years of Number Theory and Random Matrix Theory Conference

8:30am|Wolfensohn Hall and Remote Access

Organizers: 
Brian Conrey, American Institute of Mathematics
Jon Keating, University of Oxford
Hugh Montgomery, University of Michigan
Kannan Soundararajan, Stanford University

Summary:
On April 6, 1972 a young graduate student named Hugh Montgomery and...

Jun
17
2022

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

Locality and deformations in relative symplectic cohomology
Yoel Groman
9:15am|Remote Access

Relative symplectic cohomology is a Floer theoretic invariant associated with compact subsets K of a closed or geometrically bounded symplectic manifold M. The motivation for studying it is that it is often possible to reduce the study of global...

Jun
03
2022

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

Integer-valued Gromov-Witten type invariants
Guangbo Xu
9:15am|Remote Access

Gromov-Witten invariants for a general target are rational-valued but not necessarily integer-valued. This is due to the contribution of curves with nontrivial automorphism groups. In 1997 Fukaya and Ono proposed a new method in symplectic geometry...