Previous Conferences & Workshops

There are significant gaps between legal and technical thinking around data privacy. Technical standards such as k-anonymity and differential privacy are described using mathematical language whereas legal standards are not rigorous from a...

Consider a (possibly time-dependent) vector field $v$ on the Euclidean space. The classical Cauchy-Lipschitz (also named Picard-Lindel\"of) Theorem states that, if the vector field $v$ is Lipschitz in space, for every initial datum $x$ there is a...

Compatible almost-complex structures on symplectic manifolds correspond to optimal quantizations. I will discuss this statement (joint with Louis Ioos and David Kazhdan), as well as some other geometric facets of uncertainty principles in quantum...

In the absence of a vaccine, isolation is about the only available means to control an epidemic. I would like to share with everyone some things I learned from a project I worked on a few years ago studying the consequences of delays and...

The Kudla-Rapoport conjecture predicts a precise identity between the arithmetic intersection number of special cycles on unitary Rapoport-Zink spaces and the derivative of local representation densities of hermitian forms. It is a key local...

Meta-learning (or learning to learn) studies how to use machine learning to design machine learning methods themselves. We consider an optimization-based formulation of meta-learning that learns to design an optimization algorithm automatically...

A continuing mystery in understanding the empirical success of deep neural networks has been in their ability to achieve zero training error and yet generalize well, even when the training data is noisy and there are many more parameters than data...

In the talk, I will explain the algorithm (and its analysis) for testing whether a number is a prime, invented by Agrawal, Kayal, and Saxena.

Hilbert’s 23rd Problem is the last in his famous list of problems and is of a different character than the others. The description is several pages, and basically says that the calculus of variations is a subject which needs development. We will...

I'll be presenting some joint work with Ian Mertz scheduled to appear at STOC 2020. The study of the Tree Evaluation Problem (TEP), introduced by S. Cook et al. (TOCT 2012), is a promising approach to separating L from P. Given a label in [k] at...