Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
23
2020

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

New isoperimetric inequalities for convex bodies
11:15am|Remote Access Only - see link below

What can we say on a convex body from seeing its projections? In the 80s, Lutwak introduced a collection of measurements that capture this question. He called them the affine quermassintegrals. They are affine invariant analogues of the classical...

Nov
20
2020

Virtual Workshop on Recent Developments in Geometric Representation Theory

Perverse sheaves on configuration spaces, Hopf algebras and parabolic induction
6:30pm|Wolfensohn Hall and Remote Access

The problem of classification of perverse sheaves on the quotient $h/W$ for a semisimple Lie algebra $g$ has an explicit answer which turns out to be related to the algebraic properties of induction and restriction operations for parabolic...

Nov
20
2020

Virtual Workshop on Recent Developments in Geometric Representation Theory

Curved Hecke categories
Shotaro Makusumi
5:00pm|Wolfensohn Hall and Remote Access

The Hecke algebra admits an involution which preserves the standard basis and exchanges the canonical basis with its dual. This involution is categorified by "monoidal Koszul duality" for Hecke categories, studied in positive characteristic in my...

Nov
20
2020

Virtual Workshop on Recent Developments in Geometric Representation Theory

Macdonald polynomials and decomposition numbers for finite unitary groups
Olivier Dudas
2:00pm|Wolfensohn Hall and Remote Access

(work in progress with R. Rouquier) I will present a computational (yet conjectural) method to determine some decomposition matrices for finite groups of Lie type. These matrices encode how ordinary representations decompose when they are reduced to...

Nov
20
2020

Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems

Topological methods for characterizing the relationship between polymer entanglement and viscoelasticity
Eleni Panagiotou
2:00pm|Remote Access Only

Polymers are macromolecules that cannot cross each other without breaking their bonds. This leads to polymer chain entanglement which determines bulk viscoelastic responses of the material. Understanding the relation between entanglement and...

Nov
20
2020

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

Persistence and Triangulation in Lagrangian Topology
Paul Biran
9:15am|Remote Access

Triangulated categories play an important role in symplectic topology. The aim of this talk is to explain how to combine triangulated structures with persistence module theory in a geometrically meaningful way. The guiding principle comes from the...

Nov
19
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Ramanujan Conjecture and the Density Hypothesis
4:30pm|Remote Access

The Generalized Ramanujan Conjecture (GRC) for GL(n) is a central open problem in modern number theory. Its resolution is known to yield several important applications. For instance, the Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture for GL(2), proven by Deligne...

Nov
19
2020

Virtual Workshop on Recent Developments in Geometric Representation Theory

Generalized affine Grassmannian slices, truncated shifted Yangians, and Hamiltonian reduction
Joel Kamnitzer
2:30pm|Wolfensohn Hall and Remote Access

Given a representation of a reductive group, Braverman-Finkelberg-Nakajima defined a Poisson variety called the Coulomb branch, using a convolution algebra construction. This variety comes with a natural deformation quantization, called a Coulomb...