Previous Conferences & Workshops

I will survey what is known about the rationality of algebraic varieties, including recent progress and open questions. There will be a surprising connection to whiskey.

The workshop was by invitation-only.

Can the dramatic recent progress in machine learning lead to conceptual advances in the social sciences and humanities? Although we have access to social and cultural datasets of unprecedented scale, quality...

I’ll discuss the Noisy Quadratic Model, the toy problem of minimizing a convex quadratic function with noisy gradient observations. While the NQM is simple enough to have closed-form dynamics for a variety of optimizers, it gives a surprising amount...

We will discuss some of the basic principles and results in the study of Boolean-valued functions over the discrete hypercube using discrete Fourier analysis. In particular, we will talk about basic concepts, the hypercontractive inequality and the...

This talk will begin with a discussion of the string topology category of a manifold M; this was shown by Cohen and Ganatra to be equivalent as a Calabi-Yau category to the wrapped Fukaya category of T*M. In joint work with Ralph Cohen, we...

In this talk I will discuss the Sunflower Lemma and similar lemmas that prove (in various contexts) that a set/distribution can be partitioned into a structured part and a "random-looking" part. I will introduce communication complexity as a key...