Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
07
2022

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

The Minimum Formula Size Problem is (ETH) Hard
Rahul Ilango
11:15am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Understanding the complexity of the Minimum Circuit Size Problem (MCSP) is a longstanding mystery in theoretical computer science. Despite being a natural problem about circuits (given a Boolean function's truth table, determine the size of the...

Mar
04
2022

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

Invariant submanifolds for conformal dynamics
Marie-Claude Arnaud
9:15am|Remote Access

In a work with Jacques Fejoz, we consider the conformal dynamics on a symplectic manifold , i.e. for which the symplectic form is transformed colinearly to itself. In the non-symplectic case, we study the problem of isotropy and uniqueness of...

Mar
03
2022

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

A density conjecture about unit fractions
Thomas Bloom
4:30pm|Remote Access - see Zoom link below

In 2001 Croot resolved an old conjecture of Erdos and Graham, proving that in any finite colouring of the positive integers there is a (non-trivial) monochromatic solution to 1/n_1+...+1/n_k = 1 with all n_i distinct. A natural generalisation, also...

Mar
03
2022

Topics in Analysis

H$^{1/2-}$ solutions of the 3D Euler equations - Part 2: Low frequency error terms and the secondary iteration
Vikram Giri
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access
Mar
02
2022

Mathematical Conversations

Crooked geometry: Crystallography in the geometry of (2+1)-special relativity
6:00pm|Birch Garden, Simons Hall

Bieberbach's 1912 theory of Euclidean crystallographic groups provides a satisfying qualitative classification of flat Riemannian manifolds. In 1977 Milnor asked whether a similar picture could extend to flat affine manifolds, that is, when the...

Mar
02
2022

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Bounds on Maass spectra from holomorphic forms
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

I will discuss new constraints on the spectra of Maass forms on compact hyperbolic 2-orbifolds. The constraints arise from integrals of products of four functions in discrete series representations realized in $L^2(\Gamma\backslash G)$, where $...

Mar
02
2022

Topics in Geometry

Quantitative Heegaard Floer cohomology and the Calabi invariant [CGHMSS] Part IV: Existence of the spectral invariant
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access
Mar
02
2022

Arithmetic Groups

Effective equidistribution of some one-parameter unipotent flows with polynomial rates I & II
11:00am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

A landmark result of Ratner states that if $G$ is a Lie group, $\Gamma$ a lattice in $G$ and if $u_t$ is a one-parameter $Ad$-unipotent subgroup of $G$, then for any $x \in G/\Gamma$ the orbit $u_t.x$ is equidistributed in a periodic orbit of some...

Mar
01
2022

Seminar in Analysis and Geometry

Weak solutions to MHD equations
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

The talk will be devoted to explain how to construct weak solutions to 3D Ideal MHD equations obtained by convex integration (in the non smooth regime). We will show the existence of bounded weak solutions dissipating energy and cross helicity but...