Previous Conferences & Workshops

Feb
20
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Isolation of L^2 spectrum and application to Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture
Yifeng Liu
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

In this talk, we will introduce a new technique of isolating the cuspidal part, or more general cuspidal components, from the $L^2$ spectrum on the spectral side of the trace formula. As an application, we prove the global Gan-Gross-Prasad and...

Feb
20
2020

Theoretical Machine Learning Seminar

Geometric deep learning for functional protein design
Michael Bronstein
12:00pm|Dilworth Room

Protein-based drugs are becoming some of the most important drugs of the XXI century. The typical mechanism of action of these drugs is a strong protein-protein interaction (PPI) between surfaces with complementary geometry and chemistry. Over the...

Feb
19
2020

Mathematical Conversations

Regularization effect of gradient flow dynamics
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

I will introduce a math problem from deep learning regarding the regularization effect of gradient flow dynamics for underdetermined problems.

Feb
18
2020

Joint IAS/PNI Seminar on ML and Neuroscience

Compositional generalization in minds and machines
Brenden Lake
4:00pm|Princeton Neurosciences Institute: Room A32

People learn in fast and flexible ways that elude the best artificial neural networks. Once a person learns how to “dax,” they can effortlessly understand how to “dax twice” or “dax vigorously” thanks to their compositional skills. In this talk, we...

Feb
18
2020

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

An invitation to invariant theory
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101

This (mostly expository) talk will be about invariant theory viewed through the lens of computational complexity. Invariant theory is the study of symmetries, captured by group actions, by polynomials that are “invariant.” Invariant theory has had a...

Feb
14
2020

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar

Regularity of the free boundary for the two-phase Bernoulli problem
Guido De Philippis
5:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

I will illustrate a recent result obtained in collaboration with L. Spolaor and B. Velichkov concerning the regularity of the free boundaries in the two phase Bernoulli problems. The new main point is the analysis of the free boundary close to...

Feb
14
2020

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar

Stable shock formation for the compressible Euler equations
Vlad Vicol
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We will discuss a recent result with Tristan Buckmaster (Princeton) and Steve Shkoller (UC Davis) which establishes the finite-time shock formation for the 3d isentropic Euler equations with vorticity. We prove that for an open set of Sobolev-class...

Feb
13
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Moduli spaces of shtukas over function fields
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We present some work in progress, on moduli spaces of Drinfeld shtukas. These spaces are the function field analogous to Shimura varieties. In fact they are more versatile; there are r-legged versions for any r. Tate's conjecture predicts some...

Feb
13
2020

Theoretical Machine Learning Seminar

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: On Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks
Jonathan Frankle
12:00pm|Dilworth Room

We recently proposed the "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis," which conjectures that the dense neural networks we typically train have much smaller subnetworks capable of training in isolation to the same accuracy starting from the original initialization...