Previous Conferences & Workshops

Dec
02
2019

Symplectic Dynamics/Geometry Seminar

Disjoint Lagrangian spheres and cyclic dilations
Yin Li
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

An exact Calabi-Yau structure, originally introduced by Keller, is a special kind of smooth Calabi-Yau structures in the sense of Kontsevich-Vlassopoulos. For a Weinstein manifold, an exact Calabi-Yau structure on the wrapped Fukaya category induces...

Dec
02
2019

Members’ Seminar

Mathematical models of human memory
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Human memory is a multi-staged phenomenon of extreme complexity, which results in highly unpredictable behavior in real-life situations. Psychologists developed classical paradigms for studying memory in the lab, which produce easily quantifiable...

Dec
02
2019

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Rainbow fractional matchings
Ron Holzman
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101

Given a family of m matchings in a graph G (where each matching can be thought of as a color class), a rainbow matching is a choice of edges of distinct colors that forms a matching. How many matchings of size n are needed to guarantee the existence...

Nov
26
2019

Theoretical Machine Learning Seminar

A Fourier Analysis Perspective of Training Dynamics of Deep Neural Networks
11:30am|White-Levy

This talk focuses on a general phenomenon of "Frequency-Principle" that DNNs often fit target functions from low to high frequencies during the training. I will present empirical evidences on real datasets and deep networks of different settings as...

Nov
26
2019

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Constraint Satisfaction Problems and Probabilistic Combinatorics II
Fotios Illiopoulos
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101

The tasks of finding and randomly sampling solutions of constraint satisfaction problems over discrete variable sets arise naturally in a wide variety of areas, among them artificial intelligence, bioinformatics and combinatorics, and further have...

Nov
25
2019

Special Seminar

Topological quantum phases
5:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

I will describe the problem of finding the homotopy type of the space of quantum Hamiltonians in dimension d under certain constraints. The common assumptions are that the interactions have finite range and that the ground state is separated from...

Nov
25
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

On singularity properties of word maps and applications to probabilistic Waring type problems
Itay Glazer
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 314

We discuss some recent results on singularity properties of word maps and Lie algebra word maps on semisimple algebraic groups and semisimple Lie algebras, generalizing a work of Aizenbud-Avni done in the case of the commutator map. These...

Nov
25
2019

Symplectic Dynamics/Geometry Seminar

Homological mirror symmetry for elliptic Hopf surfaces
Abigail Ward and Abigail Ward
3:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 224

We show evidence that homological mirror symmetry is a phenomenon that exists beyond the world of Kähler manifolds by exhibiting HMS-type results for a family of complex surfaces which includes the classical Hopf surface (S^1 x S^3). Each surface S...

Nov
25
2019

Members’ Seminar

Convergence of nearest neighbor classification
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

The "nearest neighbor (NN) classifier" labels a new data instance by taking a majority vote over the k most similar instances seen in the past. With an appropriate setting of k, it is capable of modeling arbitrary decision rules. Traditional...