Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
06
2021

Arithmetic Groups

First order rigidity of high-rank arithmetic groups
11:00am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The family of high-rank arithmetic groups is a class of groups playing an important role in various areas of mathematics.

It includes $\mathrm{SL}(n,\mathbb Z)$, for $n > 2$ , $\mathrm{SL}(n, \mathbb Z[1/p])$ for $n > 1$, their finite index...

Oct
05
2021

Hermann Weyl Lectures

Blow up for the energy super critical defocusing NLS
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access - see Zoom link below

The defocusing Non Linear Schrödinger equation $iu_{t} = \Delta {u-u}|u|^{p-1}$ is a classical model of mathematical physics. For energy subcritical non linearities, Ginibre and Velo proved in the ’80s that all solutions are global in time and...

Oct
05
2021

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Recent progress in query complexity I & II
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

The query model is one of the most basic computational models.  In contrast to the Turing machine model, fundamental questions regarding the power of randomness and quantum computing are relatively well-understood.  For example, it is well-known...

Oct
04
2021

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

On stabilized symplectic embeddings and higher symplectic capacities
4:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101
This is a progress report on the speaker's program to study higher dimensional symplectic embeddings by constructing and computing new symplectic capacities. Among other things, we will explain (1) a proof (in preparation) of D. McDuff's stabilized...
Oct
04
2021

Hermann Weyl Lectures

Type I, Type II and front singularities
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access - see Zoom link below

In the last forty years, the study of singularity formation has mostly concerned model problems and focusing non linearities. In this second lecture, we will try to give a unified overview on the known mechanisms of singularity formation, with in...

Oct
04
2021

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Verifying The Unseen: Interactive Proofs for Label-Invariant Distribution Properties
11:15am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Given i.i.d. samples drawn from an unknown distribution over a large domain [N], approximating several basic quantities, such as the distribution's support size and its Shannon Entropy, requires at least roughly (N / \log N) samples [Valiant and...

Oct
01
2021

Hermann Weyl Lectures

On singularity formation for energy super critical problems
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access - see Zoom link below

The 4th Clay Millenium problem has a very simple formulation: may viscous incompressible fluids form a singularity in finite time? The answer is no in dimension two as proved by Leray in 1932, but the three dimensional problem is out of reach. More...