Previous Conferences & Workshops

Dec
08
2020

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

High Dimensional Expanders and Ramanujan Complexes
10:30am|Remote Access - see Zoom link below

Expander graphs in general, and Ramanujan graphs in particular, have played an important role in computer science and pure mathematics in the last four decades. In recent years the area of high dimensional expanders (i.e. simplical complexes with...

Dec
07
2020

Analysis Seminar

Stability of discontinuous solutions for inviscid compressible flows
Alexis Vasseur
4:30pm|Remote Access

We will discuss recent developments of the theory of a-contraction with shifts to study the stability of discontinuous solutions of systems of equations modeling inviscid compressible flows, like the compressible Euler equation.

Dec
07
2020

Members’ Seminar

NP-hard problems naturally arising in knot theory
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Low-dimensional topology and geometry have many problems with an easy formulation, but a hard solution. Despite our intuitive feeling that these problems are "hard", lower or upper bounds on algorithmic complexity are known only for some of them...

Dec
07
2020

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Extractor-based Approach to Proving Memory-Sample Lower Bounds for Learning
Sumegha Garg
11:15am|Remote Access - see Zoom link below

A recent line of work has focused on the following question: Can one prove strong unconditional lower bounds on the number of samples needed for learning under memory constraints? We study an extractor-based approach to proving such bounds for a...

Dec
04
2020

Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems

Raytracing and raymarching simulations of non-euclidean geometries
Henry Segerman
2:00pm|Remote Access Only

I'll talk about two related projects, with two different groups, both aiming to see three-dimensional manifolds "from the inside". That is, we generate images assuming that light travels along geodesics in the geometry of the manifold. The first...

Dec
04
2020

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

The singular Weinstein conjecture and the Contact/Beltrami mirror
Eva Miranda
9:15am|Remote Access

In this talk, I will address the (singular) Weinstein conjecture about the existence of (singular) periodic orbits of Reeb vector fields on compact manifolds endowed with singular contact forms. Our motivating examples come from Celestial mechanics...

Dec
03
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

A unitary analogy of Friedberg-Jacquet and Guo-Jacquet periods and central values of standard L functions on GL(2n)
4:30pm|Remote Access

Let $G$ be a reductive group over a number field $F$ and $H$ a subgroup. Automorphic periods study the integrals of cuspidal automorphic forms on $G$ over $H(F)\backslash H(A_F)$. They are often related to special values of certain L functions. One...