Previous Conferences & Workshops

Apr
21
2025

Joint IAS/PU Analysis Seminar

New and Old Observations About Morrey's Quasi-Convexity
Vladimir Sverak
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Let $M(n,m)$ denote the real $m\times n$ matrices. A continuous function $f\colon M(n,m)\to \R$ is called {\it Morrey quasi-convex} if  $$\int_{\R^n}(f(A+\nabla\vf(x))-f(A))\,dx\ge 0$$ for each smooth, compactly supported $\vf\colon\R^n\to\R^m$ and...

Apr
21
2025

Joint IAS/PU Arithmetic Geometry

The singular support of constructible sheaves
3:35pm|*Princeton University, Fine Hall 224*

The notion of singular support has its origin in the theory of partial differential equations, and was introduced to the world of constructible sheaves by M. Kashiwara and P. Schapira in the 1970s. It is a basic invariant (like the support), and...

Apr
21
2025

Joint IAS/PU Analysis Seminar

Non-Uniqueness and Flexibility in Two-Dimensional Euler Equations
Elia Bruè
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

In 1962, Yudovich established the well-posedness of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations for solutions with bounded vorticity. However, uniqueness within the broader class of solutions with L^p vorticity remains a key unresolved...

Apr
21
2025

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Language Generation in the Limit
Jon Kleinberg
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Although current large language models are complex, the most basic specifications of the underlying language generation problem itself are simple to state: given a finite set of training samples from an unknown language, produce valid new strings...

Apr
18
2025

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

Equivariant Cohomology and the (Symplectic) Diffeotype of Complexity-One Four-Manifolds
Tara Holm
9:15am|Remote Access

In this talk, we will explore the relationship between the geometry and topology of a complexity-one four-manifold and the combinatorial data that encode it. We will use a generators-and-relations description for the even part of the equivariant...

Apr
17
2025

Joint PU/IAS Number Theory

Recent Progress on Gauss Sums and Primes
Alex Dunn
3:30pm|*Princeton University, Fine 214*

Large sieve inequalities are a fundamental tool used to investigate prime numbers and exponential sums. In this lecture I will explain my work that resolves a 1978 conjecture of S. Patterson (conditional on the Generalized Riemann hypothesis)...

Apr
17
2025

What is...?

What is Tensor Isomorphism?
1:00pm|Simonyi Classroom (S-114)

Two graphs are isomorphic if they are the same up relabelling the vertices. Two matrices are equivalent if they are the same up to elementary row and column operations. Tensor isomorphism generalises these basic notions in graph theory and linear...

Apr
17
2025

Special Year Seminar II

Surprising Representations in Cohomology of Configurations in Graphs
Nir Gadish
10:00am|Simonyi 101

Configuration spaces of points in graphs are nonsmooth analogs of braid arrangements, appearing in robotics applications and in theory of moduli spaces of tropical curves. While their cohomology is extremely difficult to understand, and depends on...

Apr
16
2025

Mathematical Conversations

Visual Aspects of Gaussian Periods
6:00pm|Simons Hall Dilworth Room

Gaussian periods are certain sums of roots of unity.  Gauss introduced them in his work on straight edge and compass constructions of regular polygons.  Since then, Gaussian periods have played important roles in number theory and beyond.  It turns...