Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
18
2019

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

An Application of the Universality Theorem for Tverberg Partitions
Imre Barany
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101

We show that, as a consequence of a remarkable new result of Attila P\'or on universal Tverberg partitions, any large-enough set $P$ of points in $\Re^d$ has a $(d+2)$-sized subset whose Radon point has half-space depth at least $c_d \cdot |P|$...

Mar
15
2019

Analysis Seminar

Localization and delocalization for interacting 1D quasiperiodic particles.
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We consider a system of two interacting one-dimensional quasiperiodic particles as an operator on $\ell^2(\mathbb Z^2)$. The fact that particle frequencies are identical, implies a new effect compared to generic 2D potentials: the presence of large...

Mar
14
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Local aspects of Venkatesh's thesis.
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

The thesis of Akshay Venkatesh obtains a Beyond Endoscopy'' proof of stable functorial transfer from tori to ${\rm SL}(2)$, by means of the Kuznetsov formula. In this talk, I will show that there is a local statement that underlies this work; namely...

Mar
14
2019

Analysis Seminar

Gradient Gibbs models and homogenization
Scott Armstrong
1:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

I will discuss some new results for gradient field models with uniformly convex potentials. A connection between the scaling limit of the field and elliptic homogenization was introduced more than twenty years ago by Naddaf and Spencer. In joint...

Mar
13
2019

Mathematical Conversations

Wiggling and wrinkling
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

The idea of corrugation goes back to Whitney, who proved that homotopy classes of immersed curves in the plane are classified by their rotation number. Generalizing this result, Smale and Hirsch proved that the space of immersions of a manifold X...