Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
01
2018

Symplectic Dynamics Working Group

Generic dynamics: A phenomenon/mechanism correspondence
Enrique Pujals
1:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Through geometrical models, perturbation techniques and sometimes analytical approaches, it has been possible to establish a dictionary between "a taxonomy of generic dynamical phenomenons" and a list of "simple mechanisms or dynamical...

Oct
31
2018

Informal Group Action Seminar

The difference between Lagrange and Markov after Hausdorff
Carlos Matheus Santos
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

The classical Lagrange and Markov spectra encode the features of certain Diophantine approximations problems. The first systematic study of these spectra was done by Markov in 1880. Since then, these objects attracted the attention of several...

Oct
30
2018

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

Recent progress on Overdetermined Elliptic Problems
Jose Espinar
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

In this talk we will survey recent progress on the Beresticky-Caffarelli-Nirenberg Conjecture in Space Forms; that is, let $\Omega$ be an open connected domain of a complete connected Riemannian manifold ($M,g$) and consider the OEP given by
\begin...

Oct
30
2018

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar

Analysis of some Conformally Invariant Problems
Paul Laurain
1:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Preliminary I will expose a technique developed with T. Rivi\`{e}re to prove energy identities (weak compactness) for sequences of solutions of any conformally invariant problem of second order in dimension 2, see [1]. Then after introducing some...

Oct
30
2018

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

On the NP-hardness of 2-to-2 Games
Dor Minzer
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101

The Unique-Games Conjecture is a central open problem in the field of PCP’s (Probabilistically Checkable Proofs) and hardness of approximation, implying tight inapproximability results for wide class of optimization problems.

We will discuss PCPs...

Oct
29
2018

Symplectic Dynamics/Geometry Seminar

A simplicial construction of G-equivariant Floer homology
Kristen Hendricks
3:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 224

For G a Lie group acting on a symplectic manifold and preserving a pair of Lagrangians, we use techniques from infinity category theory to construct a G-equivariant Floer homology of L0 and L1 without equivariant transversality. We give a sample...

Oct
29
2018

Members’ Seminar

On measures invariant under the diagonal group --- a new approach
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

A key challenge in homogeneous dynamics is understanding the action of higher rank diagonal groups on homogenous spaces. While actions of rank one diagonal groups have a lot of flexibility, a phenomena used already by Artin to engineer orbits of...

Oct
29
2018

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

2-universality of random graphs.
Gal Kronenberg
11:15am|Simonyi Hall 101

For a family of graphs F, a graph G is F-universal if G contains every graph in F as a (not necessarily induced) subgraph. A natural candidate to serve as universal graph G is the random graph G(n,p). In this case, we want to find an optimal p for...