Previous Conferences & Workshops

Dec
19
2017

Locally Symmetric Spaces Seminar

Transfer operators between relative trace formulas in rank one II
1:45pm|S-101

I will introduce a new paradigm for comparing relative trace formulas, in order to prove instances of (relative) functoriality and relations between periods of automorphic forms.More precisely, for a spherical variety $X=H\backslash G$ of rank one...

Dec
14
2017

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Ordinary primes in Hilbert modular varieties
4:30pm|Fine 214, Princeton University

The modular Jacobians decompose, up to isogeny, into the abelian varieties $X_f$ cut out by cuspforms $f$ of weight 2, and a conjecture attributed to Serre posits that $X_f$ has infinitely many ordinary primes. Similarly for the André motives in the...

Dec
13
2017

Mathematical Conversations

Real zeros of random polynomials in several variables
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

The topology of the zero set and nesting properties of a random homogeneous real polynomial of large degree has a universal behavior depending only on the dimension. We discuss this and an apparent relation to super-critical percolation in...

Dec
12
2017

Locally Symmetric Spaces Seminar

Transfer operators between relative trace formulas in rank one
1:45pm|S-101

I will introduce a new paradigm for comparing relative trace formulas, in order to prove instances of (relative) functoriality and relations between periods of automorphic forms.More precisely, for a spherical variety $X=H\backslash G$ of rank one...

Dec
12
2017

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

A PSPACE construction of a hitting set for the closure of small algebraic circuits
Amir Shpilka
10:30am|S-101

We study the complexity of constructing a hitting set for the class of polynomials that can be infinitesimally approximated by polynomials that are computed by polynomial sized algebraic circuits, over the real or complex numbers. Specifically, we...

Dec
12
2017

Locally Symmetric Spaces Seminar

Derived deformation rings for group representations
Søren Galatius
10:00am|Physics Library, Bloomberg Hall 201

It is well known that an irreducible representation of a group $G$ over a field $k$ admits a universal deformation to a representation over a complete Noetherian local ring, provided that it is absolutely irreducible, i.e. remains irreducible after...

Dec
11
2017

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Recent developments in knot contact homology
Lenny Ng
4:00pm|S-101

Knot contact homology is a knot invariant derived from counting holomorphic curves with boundary on the Legendrian conormal to a knot. I will discuss some new developments around the subject, including an enhancement that completely determines the...

Dec
11
2017

Members’ Seminar

Rigidity and recurrence in symplectic dynamics
2:00pm|S-101

Symplectic Geometry and its dynamics originated from classical mechanics as the geometry of physical phase space, in particular from celestial mechanics, and one of the most driving questions is up to today that of stability for such systems. One of...