Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
29
2017

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar

On structure results for intertwining operators
4:00pm

The intertwining wave operators are basic objects in the scattering theory of a Hamiltonian given as the sum of a Laplacian with a potential. These Hamiltonians are the classical Schroedinger operators of quantum mechanics. For the three dimensional...

Mar
29
2017

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar

Applications of twisted technology
Christoph Thiele
1:30pm

Recently we proved with Durcik, Kovac, Skreb variational estimates providing sharp quantitative norm convergence results for bilinear ergodic averages with respect to two commuting transformations. The proof uses so called twisted technology...

Mar
29
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Homological mirror symmetry for the pair of pants
10:45am

Homological mirror symmetry postulates a derived equivalence between the wrapped Fukaya category of an exact symplectic manifold and a category of coherent sheaves or matrix factorizations on a mirror space. This talk will provide an introduction to...

Mar
28
2017

Floer Homology and Khovanov Homology Reading Group

Mirror symmetry for $T^*P^1$ and conjectural models for Khovanov homology
10:45am

Consider $T^*P^1$ as the B-model of a mirror equivalence. It turns out that the A-model mirror depends on choices and I will describe two of these mirrors: one with underlying symplectic manifold the complement of a conic in $T^*S^2$, and the other...

Mar
28
2017

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Applications of monotone constraint satisfaction
10:30am

Recently, a certain "monotone" version of the constraint satisfaction problem has proved an extremely useful tool for attacking problems in circuit, communication, and proof complexity theory. In this talk we discuss this version of the constraint...

Mar
27
2017

Members’ Seminar

Extremal problems in combinatorial geometry
Orit Raz
2:00pm

Combinatorial geometry is a field that studies combinatorial problems that involve some simple geometric objects/notions, such as: lines, points, distances, collinearity. While such problems are often easy to state, some of them are very difficult...

Mar
27
2017

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Applications of monotone constraint satisfaction
11:15am

Recently, a certain "monotone" version of the constraint satisfaction problem has proved an extremely useful tool for attacking problems in circuit, communication, and proof complexity theory. In this talk we discuss this version of the constraint...

Mar
24
2017

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Continuous covers on symplectic manifolds
François Lalonde
10:45am

In this talk, we first introduce the notion of a continuous cover of a manifold parametrised by any compact manifold endowed with a mass 1 volume-form. We prove that any such cover admits a partition of unity where the usual sum is replaced by...