Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
11
2019

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Near log-convexity of measured heat in (discrete) time and consequences
Mert Sağlam
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101

We answer a 1982 conjecture of Erd&‌#337;s and Simonovits about the growth of number of $k$-walks in a graph, which incidentally was studied earlier by Blakley and Dixon in 1966. We prove this conjecture in a more general setup than the earlier...

Mar
07
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Special cycles on orthogonal Shimura varieties
Eugenia Rosu
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

Extending on the work of Kudla-Millson and Yuan-Zhang-Zhang, together with Yott we are constructing special divisors for a specific GSpin Shimura variety. We further construct a generating series that has as coefficients the cohomology classes...

Mar
07
2019

Workshop on Geometric Functionals: Analysis and Applications

$L^2$ curvature for surfaces in Riemannian manifolds
Ernst Kuwert
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: For surfaces immersed into a compact Riemannian manifold, we consider the curvature functional given by the $L^2$ integral of the second fundamental form. We discuss an an area bound in terms of that functional, with application to the...

Mar
07
2019

Workshop on Geometric Functionals: Analysis and Applications

One-cycle sweepout estimates of essential surfaces in closed Riemannian manifolds
Stéphane Sabourau
11:30am|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: We present new-curvature one-cycle sweepout estimates in Riemannian geometry, both on surfaces and in higher dimension. More precisely, we derive upper bounds on the length of one-parameter families of one-cycles sweeping out essential...

Mar
07
2019

Workshop on Geometric Functionals: Analysis and Applications

Compactness and finiteness theorems (almost) without curvature
Gerard Besson
10:00am|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract : It is a joint work with G. Courtois, S. Gallot and A.Sambusetti. We prove a compactness theorem for metric spaces with anupper bound on the entropy and other conditions that will be discussed.Several finiteness results will be drawn. It...

Mar
06
2019

Mathematical Conversations

From Celestial Mechanics to the Arnold Conjectures
Umberto Hryniewicz
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

The study of the planar-circular-restricted 3-body problem led to Poincaré's "last geometric theorem", nowadays known as the Poincaré-Birkhoff theorem. It is a fixed point theorem for certain area-preserving annulus homeomorphisms. Birkhoff's proof...