Previous Conferences & Workshops

Apr
19
2018

Theoretical Machine Learning Seminar

Online Improper Learning with an Approximation Oracle
Zhiyuan Li
12:15pm|White-Levy Room

We revisit the question of reducing online learning to approximate optimization of the offline problem. In this setting, we give two algorithms with near-optimal performance in the full information setting: they guarantee optimal regret and require...

Apr
17
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

A New Northcott Property for Faltings Height
Lucia Mocz
4:45pm|Simonyi Hall 101

The Faltings height is a useful invariant for addressing questions in arithmetic geometry. In his celebrated proof of the Mordell and Shafarevich conjectures, Faltings shows the Faltings height satisfies a certain Northcott property, which allows...

Apr
17
2018

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

A simple proof of a reverse Minkowski inequality
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101

We consider the following question: how many points with bounded norm can a "non-degenerate" lattice have. Here, by a "non-degenerate" lattice, we mean an n-dimensional lattice with no surprisingly dense lower-dimensional sublattices.

Dadush and...

Apr
16
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

The wrapped Fukaya category of a Weinstein manifold is generated by the Lagrangian cocore discs
Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell
4:00pm|Fine Hall 322, Princeton University

In a joint work with B. Chantraine, P. Ghiggini, and R. Golovko we decompose any object in the wrapped Fukaya category as a twisted complex built from the cocores of the critical (i.e. half-dimensional) handles in a Weinstein handle decomposition...

Apr
16
2018

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Sums of Squares Over k-Subset Hypercubes
Annie Raymond
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101

Polynomial optimization over hypercubes has important applications in combinatorial optimization. We develop a symmetry-reduction method that finds sums of squares certificates for non-negative symmetric polynomials over k-subset hypercubes that...

Apr
12
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

S-operators via the categorical trace
Xinwen Zhu
4:30pm|Fine Hall 214, Princeton University

S-operators were originally introduced by V. Lafforgue as certain operators acting on the cohomology of moduli of Shtukas. I will discuss their analogues and generalizations in the Shimura variety setting. They induce Hecke equivariant maps between...

Apr
12
2018

Emerging Topics Working Group

The way weak KAM pseudographs of symplectic twist maps fill the annulus
Marie-Claude Arnaud
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: Consider a completely integrable symplectic twist map of the two dimensional annulus: then the invariant curves make a partition of the annulus and they are vertically ordered by their rotation number. Here we raise a similar question in...

Apr
12
2018

Theoretical Machine Learning Seminar

Stability and Generalization in Adaptive Data Analysis
Vitaly Feldman
12:15pm|White-Levy Room

Datasets are often used multiple times with each successive analysis depending on the outcomes of previous analyses on the same dataset. Standard techniques for ensuring generalization and statistical validity do not account for this adaptive...