Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
14
2019

Analysis Seminar

On the (in)stability of the identity map in optimal transportation
5:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

In the optimal transport problem, it is well-known that the geometry of the target domain plays a crucial role in the regularity of the optimal transport. In the quadratic cost case, for instance, Caffarelli showed that having a convex target domain...

Oct
14
2019

Symplectic Dynamics/Geometry Seminar

Inscribing Rectangles in Jordan Loops
Rich Schwartz
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

I'll show a graphical user interface I wrote which explores the problem of inscribing rectangles in Jordan loops. The motivation behind this is the notorious Square Peg Conjecture of Toeplitz, from 1911.I did not manage to solve this problem, but I...

Oct
14
2019

Members’ Seminar

Finding structure in high dimensional data, methods and fundamental limitations
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

A fundamental task in (unsupervised) analysis of data is to detect and estimate interesting "structure" hidden in it. In low dimensions, this task has been explored for over 100 years with dozens of developed methods. In this talk I'll focus on...

Oct
14
2019

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Choiceless Polynomial Time
Ben Rossman
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101

The choiceless computation model of Blass, Gurevich and Shelah (1999, 2002) is an algorithmic framework for computing isomorphism-invariant properties of unordered structures. Machines in this model have the power of parallel execution, but lack the...

Oct
11
2019

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar

Nodal domains of equivariant eigenfunctions on Kaluza-Klein $3$-folds.
5:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

In this talk, I'm going to explain my recent work with Steve Zelditch, where we prove that, when $M$ is a principle $S^1$-bundle equipped with a generic Kaluza-Klein metric, the nodal counting of eigenfunctions is typically $2$, independent of the...

Oct
11
2019

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar

On a universal limit conjecture for the nodal count statistics of quantum graphs
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We consider Laplace eigenfunctions of a metric graph satisfying Neumann-Kirchhoff conditions on every vertex. The nodal count of a given eigenfunction is the number of points at which it vanishes. The nodal count of the n-th eigenfunction was shown...

Oct
11
2019

Special Dynamics Seminar

On Radon measures invariant under horospherical flows on geometrically infinite manifolds.
Or Landesberg
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We consider a locally finite (Radon) measure on SO(d,1)/Gamma invariant under a horospherical subgroup of SO(d,1) where Gamma is a discrete, but not necessarily geometrically finite, subgroup. We show that whenever the measure does not observe any...

Oct
10
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Extremal cases of Rapoport-Zink spaces
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

This talk is about qualitative properties of the underlying scheme of Rapoport-Zink formal moduli spaces of p-divisible groups, resp. Shtukas. We single out those cases when the dimension of this underlying scheme is zero, resp. those where the...