Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
04
2025

Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Ahlfors Currents and Symplectic Non-Hyperbolicity
Spencer Cattalani
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Complex lines are a class of pseudoholomorphic curves which generalize rational curves. Applications of complex lines to symplectic geometry have been proposed, but they remain poorly understood. In this talk, I will describe a framework for...

Nov
04
2025

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

No Exponential Quantum Speedup for SIS^inf Anymore
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Given linear equations over a finite field and under infinity norm, the Short-Integer-Solution (SIS^inf) problem asks to find a solution where each entry is a small number.

In 2021, Chen, Liu, and Zhandry presented an efficient quantum algorithm for...

Nov
03
2025

Joint IAS/PU Arithmetic Geometry

Refined THH Over ku and Habiro Cohomology
Ferdinand Wagner
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

By an observation of Efimov and Scholze, Efimov's theorem on the rigidity of localizing motives allows one to construct refinements of topological Hochschild homology and its variants. In this talk, I'll explain how this refinement works, sketch an...

Nov
03
2025

Members' Colloquium

A Dogged Pursuit for Satisfaction
1:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The SAT (Boolean Satisfiability) problem asks whether a given logical formula on $n$ Boolean variables has an assignment of true/false values to its variables that makes the formula true.  The P vs NP question is equivalent to asking whether SAT has...

Nov
03
2025

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

New Approach to Matrix Perturbation: Beyond the Worst-Case Analysis
Van H. Vu
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Matrix-perturbation bounds quantify how the spectral characteristics of a baseline matrix A change under additive noise E. Classical results, including Weyl’s inequality for eigenvalues and the Davis–Kahan theorem for eigenvectors and eigenspaces...

Oct
31
2025

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

Three 20 Minute Research Talks
Baptiste Serraille, Spencer Cattalani and Giovanni Ambrosioni
9:15am|Remote Access

Baptiste Serraille (ETH Zürich)On a Linear Combination of Link Spectral Invariants on the Sphere:

Link spectral invariants and their homogenizations have been defined by Cristofaro-Gardiner et.al. In joint work with Ibrahim Trifa, we define a linear...

Oct
30
2025

Joint PU/IAS Number Theory

The Intersection of Modular Correspondences Continued and a General Conjecture
Qiao He
3:30pm|Fine 110, Princeton University

In this talk, we continue to discuss the intersection of modular correspondences but on the self-product of two Shimura curves. This is partially motivated by a classical work of Kudla-Rapoport for the single Shimura curve case and by the self...

Oct
30
2025

Special Year Research Seminar

Effective Computations for Weakly Special Loci
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

In this talk, I will discuss some effective computations for variations of integral Hodge structures.

Several years ago, with Ren and Javanpeykar-Kühne, I conjectured (in the Shimura setting) that a variation has only finitely many "non-factor"...

Oct
29
2025

Special Year Learning Seminar

Intro to Hodge Theory
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

A Hodge structure is a certain linear algebraic datum.  Importantly, the cohomology groups of any smooth projective algebraic variety come equipped with Hodge structures which encode the integrals of algebraic differential forms over topological...

Oct
29
2025

Special Seminar

Character Rigidity and Ergodic Actions of Non-uniform Higher Rank Lattices
Alon Dogon
10:30am|Simonyi 101

The theory of rigidity for lattices in higher rank semisimple Lie groups is a powerful and exciting subject, combining methods from algebra, number theory, geometry and dynamics. One of the most celebrated results is Margulis' normal subgroup...