Previous Conferences & Workshops

Harmonic bundles are flat bundles equipped with a pluri-harmonic metric. They are very useful in the study of flat bundles on complex projective manifolds. Indeed, according to the fundamental theorem of Corlette, any semisimple flat bundle on a...

I will discuss a connection between monodromy groups of variations of Hodge structure and the global behavior of the associated period map. The large-scale information in the period map is contained in the Lyapunov exponents, which are invariants...

In the lectures I will formulate a conjecture asserting that there is a hidden action of certain motivic cohomology groups on the cohomology of arithmetic groups. One can construct this action, tensored with $\mathbb C$, using differential forms...

A theme that cuts across many domains of computer science and mathematics is to find simple representations of complex mathematical objects such as graphs, functions, or distributions on data. These representations need to capture how the object...

Let $H = G/K$ be a symmetric space and $X = \Gamma \backslash H$ its locally symmetric quotient. An important problem is to understand the cohomology of the space $X$ (or, more or less equivalent, cohomology of the group $\Gamma$). The idea is that...

I will motivate the consideration of a special class of odd dimensional sphere bundles over symplectic manifolds. These bundles give a novel topological perspective for symplectic geometry. In particular, the symplectic A-infinity algebra recently...

Decomposition theorem for perverse sheaves on algebraic varieties, proved by Beilinson-Bernstein-Deligne-Gabber, is one of the most important and useful theorems in the contemporary mathematics. By the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, we may regard...

With the continuing successes of deep learning, it becomes increasingly important to better understand the phenomena exhibited by these models, ideally through a combination of systematic experiments and theory. In this talk I discuss some of our...