Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
30
2022

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Large Genus Asymptotics in Flat Surfaces and Hyperbolic Geodesics
Amol Aggarwal
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

In this talk we will describe the behaviors of flat surfaces and geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces, as their genera tend to infinity. We first discuss enumerative results that count the number of such surfaces or geodesics (which can be viewed as...

Mar
30
2022

DeepMind Workshop

The Signature and Natural Slope of Hyperbolic Knots
Marc Lackenby
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Marc Lackenby, University of Oxford

The Signature and Natural Slope of Hyperbolic Knots

Andras Juhasz has explained in his talk how machine learning was used to discover a previously unknown relationship between invariants in knot theory. This...

Mar
30
2022

Arithmetic Groups

Growth of Bianchi modular forms
Weibo Fu
11:00am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In this talk, I will establish a sharp bound on the growth of cuspidal Bianchi modular forms. By the Eichler-Shimura isomorphism, we actually give a sharp bound of the second cohomology of a hyperbolic three manifold (Bianchi manifold) with local...

Mar
29
2022

DeepMind Workshop

AlphaZero and Matrix Multiplication
Alhussein Fawzi
4:00pm|Simonyi 101

Alhussein Fawzi, EPFL

AlphaZero and Matrix Multiplication

Mar
29
2022

DeepMind Workshop

What is Machine Learning Good For?
Alex Davies
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Alex Davies, University of Cambridge

What is Machine Learning Good For?

Machine learning has seen remarkable success in many areas in the past decade, but this inevitably leads to hype that obscures what it can and cannot do. In this talk we will...

Mar
29
2022

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

The absorption method, and an application to an old Ramsey problem
Matija Bucic
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

The absorption method is a very simple yet surprisingly powerful idea coming from extremal combinatorics which allows one to convert asymptotic results into exact ones. It has produced a remarkable number of success stories in recent years with...

Mar
28
2022

DeepMind Workshop

Combinatorial Invariance: a Case Study of Pure Math / Machine Learning Interaction
Geordie Williamson
4:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Geordie Williamson, University of Sydney

Combinatorial Invariance: a Case Study of Pure Math / Machine  Learning Interaction

The combinatorial invariance conjecture is a fascinating conjecture in Representation Theory. Basically it says that...

Mar
28
2022

DeepMind Workshop

Knot Theory and Machine Learning
Andras Juhasz
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Knot Theory and Machine Learning

Andras Juhasz, University of Oxford

The signature of a knot K in the 3-sphere is a classical  invariant that gives a lower bound on the genera of compact oriented surfaces in the 4-ball with boundary K. We say...