Previous Conferences & Workshops

Ostmann’s problem asks if there are sets $A1$ and $A2$ with $|A1|, |A2| > 1$ so that the sumset $A1 + A2$ differs from the set of primes by only finitely many elements. It is believed that no such $A1$ and $A2$ exist, but to date the problem remains...

Ideas from tame geometry have recently begun to find their way into quantum field theory and string theory, suggesting that consistent effective theories and their observables may admit definable descriptions of finite complexity. In this talk I...

It is well-known that the constant e is transcendental, but many proofs of this fact seem opaque with some polynomial appearing to be pulled out of thin air. The goal of this talk is then to elucidate this proof, explain how the proof of $\pi$ being...

Hilbert, motivating his list of 23 problems, mentions the arithmetical formulation of the concept of the continuum in the works of Cauchy, Bolzano and Cantor, and the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry by Gauss, Bolyai and Lobachevsky, as...

In this talk, we will discuss random dynamical systems and group actions on surfaces given by diffeomorphisms. We will mostly focus on the absolutely continuity of stationary measures, the classification of orbit closures, and the exact...

Why is it so hard to prove P != NP, or even to prove super-linear circuit lower bounds? While we often blame a lack of combinatorial ingenuity, the bottleneck might be more fundamental: the logical strength of our mathematical tools.

This series of...

Given a family $g: X \rightarrow S$ of smooth projective algebraic varieties over a number field $K$, one often wants to constrain the points $s$ in $S$ where the fibre $X_s$ acquires "extra" algebraic structure. A basic sort of constraint which is...

Hilbert, motivating his list of 23 problems, mentions the arithmetical formulation of the concept of the continuum in the works of Cauchy, Bolzano and Cantor, and the discovery of non-Euclidean geometry by Gauss, Bolyai and Lobachevsky, as...