Previous Conferences & Workshops

Feb
03
2021

Mathematical Conversations

How hard is it to tell two knots apart?
5:30pm|Remote Access

Many problems in classical topology can be formulated as decision problems, with yes/no answer and an algorithm as a solution. While such problems often appear to be intuitively hard, we still know little about lower bounds on their algorithmic...

Feb
03
2021

Geometric and Modular Representation Theory Seminar

The K-ring of Steinberg varieties
3:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

In the upcoming series of talks we discuss some equivalences by Bezrukavnikov between categories of coherent sheaves on Steinberg varieties and of perverse sheaves on the affine flag variety. In this talk I discuss the decategorified isomorphism...

Feb
03
2021

Stability and Testability

Permutation stability of Grigorchuk groups
Tianyi Zheng
11:00am|Remote Access
A recent result of Becker, Lubotzky and Thom characterizes, for amenable groups, permutation stability in terms of co-soficity of invariant random subgroups (IRS). We will explain that for a class of amenable groups acting on rooted trees, including...
Feb
02
2021

SL2 Seminar

User's guide to computing with tilting modules
3:00pm|Remote Access

A basic technique in algebra, when describing a difficult-to-approach category like Tilt, is to choose a projective generator and study its endomorphism ring. The modern twist on this technique is to choose the projective generator with great...

Feb
02
2021

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Log-concave polynomials in theory and applications - Part 2
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access - see Zoom link below

A polynomial with nonnegative coefficients is strongly log-concave if it and all of its derivatives are log-concave as functions on the positive orthant. This rich class of polynomials includes many interesting examples, such as homogeneous real...

Feb
01
2021

Analysis Seminar

Index theorems for nodal count and a lateral variation principle
Gregory Berkolaiko
4:30pm|Remote Access

Our study is motivated by earlier results about nodal count of Laplacian eigenfunctions on manifolds and graphs that share the same flavor: a normalized nodal count is equal to the Morse index of a certain energy functional at the critical point...

Feb
01
2021

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Graph Density Inequalities, Sums of Squares and Tropicalization
Annie Raymond
11:15am|Remote Access - see Zoom link below

Establishing inequalities among graph densities is a central pursuit in extremal graph theory. One way to certify the nonnegativity of a graph density expression is to write it as a sum of squares or as a rational sum of squares. In this talk, we...

Jan
29
2021

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

Three 20 minute research talks
Alexandre Jannaud, Tim Large and Oliver Edtmair
9:15am|Remote Access

Alexandre Jannaud (Sorbonne),Dehn-Seidel twist, $C^0$ symplectic geometry and barcodes
Abstract: In this talk I will present my work initiating the study of the $C^0$ symplectic mapping class group, i.e. the group of isotopy classes of symplectic...