Previous Conferences & Workshops

May
17
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

A new $p$-adic Maass-Shimura operator and supersingular Rankin-Selberg $p$-adic $L$-functions
Daniel Kriz
4:30pm|Fine Hall 214, Princeton University

We introduce a new $p$-adic Maass-Shimura operator acting on a space of "generalized $p$-adic modular forms" (extending Katz's notion of $p$-adic modular forms) defined on the $p$-adic (preperfectoid) universal cover of Shimura curves. Using this...

May
15
2018

Special Mathematics Physics Seminar

An Introduction to Liouville Theory
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Liouville Conformal Field Theory (LCFT) is an essential building block of Polyakov’s formulation of non critical string theory. Moreover, scaling limits of statistical mechanics models on random lattices (planar maps) are believed to be described by...

May
11
2018

Special Probability Seminar

Percolation of sign clusters for the Gaussian free field II
Pierre-Francois Rodriguez
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We consider level sets of the Gaussian free field on the d-dimensional lattice, for d>2, above a given real-valued height h. This defines a percolation model with strong, algebraically decaying correlations. We prove a conjecture of Lebowitz...

May
10
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Goldfeld's conjecture and congruences between Heegner points
4:30pm|Fine Hall 214, Princeton University

Given an elliptic curve $E$ over $\mathbb{Q}$, a celebrated conjecture of Goldfeld asserts that a positive proportion of its quadratic twists should have analytic rank 0 (resp. 1). We show this conjecture holds whenever $E$ has a rational 3-isogeny...

May
10
2018

Special Probability Seminar

Percolation of sign clusters for the Gaussian free field I
Pierre-Francois Rodriguez
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We consider level sets of the Gaussian free field on the $d$-dimensional lattice, for $d>2$, above a given real-valued height $h$. This defines a percolation model with strong, algebraically decaying correlations. We prove a conjecture of Lebowitz...

May
08
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Towards counting rational points on genus $g$ curves
4:30pm|Fine Hall 214, Princeton University

We start by showing that for any 1-parameter family of genus $g>2$ curves, the number of rational points is bounded by $g$, degree of the field, and the Mordell-Weil rank. Apart from the classical Faltings-Vojta-Bombieri method, the new input is a...