Previous Conferences & Workshops

Feb
25
2025

Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Symplectic Cohomology Construction Via C*-actions
Filip Zivanovic
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In a series of papers with Alexander Ritter, we construct a symplectic cohomology for open non-convex symplectic manifolds that admit pseudo-holomorphic C*-actions. Out of this construction, we get a filtration on ordinary cohomology of these...

Feb
25
2025

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Independent Sets in Random Cayley Graphs
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Cayley graphs provide interesting bridges between graph theory, additive combinatorics and group theory. Fixing an ambient finite group, random Cayley graphs are constructed by choosing a generating set at random. These graphs reflect interesting...

Feb
24
2025

Joint IAS/PU Arithmetic Geometry

Higher coherent cohomology in weight one
Si-Ying Lee
3:35pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I will talk about a proof of local-global compatibility at p for higher coherent cohomology mod p in weight one for Hilbert modular varieties at an unramified prime, assuming we are not in middle degree. I will discuss some key ingredients to the...

Feb
24
2025

Members' Colloquium

Inequalities For Trees and Matroids
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In their 1971 study of telephone switching circuitry, Graham and Pollak designed a novel addressing scheme that was better suited for the faster communication required by computers. They introduced the distance matrix of a graph, and used its...

Feb
24
2025

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Finding Regular Subgraphs
Richard Montgomery
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Finding regular subgraphs can be useful. Many results assume a graph is regular or are easier to prove when they are. In 1975, Erdős and Sauer asked for an estimate, for any constant r, on the maximum number of edges an n-vertex graph can have...

Feb
21
2025

IAS/Princeton/Montreal/Paris/Tel-Aviv Symplectic Geometry Zoominar

Contact Non-Squeezing in Various Closed Prequantizations
Pierre-Alexandre Arlove
9:15am|Remote Access

I will describe and argue the existence of contact non-squeezing phenomena in contact lens spaces and in strongly orderable prequantizations.
The proof is based on the construction of contact capacities coming from spectral selectors defined on the...

Feb
20
2025

Joint PU/IAS Number Theory

Hilbert's 10th Problem Over Rings of Integers
Ari Shnidman
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

We show that for every quadratic extension of number fields K/F, there exists an abelian variety A/F of positive rank whose rank does not grow upon base change to K. By work of Shlapentokh, this implies that Hilbert's tenth problem over the ring of...

Feb
20
2025

Special Year Seminar II

Operadic Structures in Matroid Theory
10:00am|Simonyi 101

I will start by a gentle introduction to operadic structures by drawing a parallel with classical associative structures. Then we will see how those structures can be applied to matroid theory via three examples: Chow rings, Orlik--Solomon algebras...

Feb
19
2025

Mathematical Conversations

Cohomology Theories and Formal Groups
6:00pm|Simons Hall Dilworth Room

In the 1960's, Quillen found a remarkable relationship between a certain class of cohomology theories and the theory of formal groups. This discovery has had a profound impact on algebraic topology. In this talk, I'll give a brief exposition of...