Previous Conferences & Workshops

Apr
10
2018

Emerging Topics Working Group

A General Shadowing result for normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds and its application to Arnold diffusion
Tere Seara
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: In this talk we present a general shadowing result for normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds. The result does not use the existence of invariant objects like tori inside the manifold and works in very general settings. We apply this...

Apr
10
2018

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Explicit Binary Tree Codes with Polylogarithmic Size Alphabet
10:30am|West Building Lecture Hall

In this talk, we consider the problem of explicitly constructing a binary tree code with constant distance and constant alphabet size. We present an explicit binary tree code with constant distance and alphabet size polylog(n), where n is the depth...

Apr
09
2018

Working Group on Diophantine Analysis

Steenrod operations and Tate's Conjecture on the Brauer group of a surface
4:45pm|Fine Hall 1201, Princeton University

There is a canonical pairing on the Brauer group of a surface over a finite field, which is the analogue of the Cassels-Tate pairing on the Tate-Shafarevich group of a Jacobian variety. An old conjecture of Tate predicts that this pairing is...

Apr
09
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Fukaya categories of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces
4:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Consider a Calabi-Yau manifold which arises as a member of a Lefschetz pencil of anticanonical hypersurfaces in a Fano variety. The Fukaya categories of such manifolds have particularly nice properties. I will review this (partly still conjectural)...

Apr
09
2018

Emerging Topics Working Group

Symplectic geometry of hyperbolic cylinders and their homoclinic intersections
Jean-Pierre Marco
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: We first examine the existence, uniqueness, regularity, twist and symplectic properties of compact invariant cylinders with boundary, located near simple or double resonances in perturbations of action-angle systems on the annulus $A^3$...

Apr
09
2018

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Large deviations in random graphs
Eyal Lubetzky
11:00am|West Building Lecture Hall

What is the probability that the number of triangles in the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph with edge density $p$, is at least twice its mean? What is the typical structure of the graph conditioned on this rare event? For instance, when $p=o(1)$...

Apr
09
2018

Emerging Topics Working Group

Arnold diffusion for `complete' families of perturbations with two or three independent harmonics
Amadeu Delshams
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101

Abstract: We prove that for any non-trivial perturbation depending on any two independent harmonics of a pendulum and a rotor there is global instability. The proof is based on the geometrical method and relies on the concrete computation of several...