Previous Conferences & Workshops

This talk is an introduction to the work of Witten on physical approaches to knots, especially based on hep-th 1101.3216. Classical approaches to the Jones polynomial are based on various combinatorial constructions which have the downside of not...

Invariant theory deals with properties of symmetries - actions of groups on sets of objects.It has been slower to join its sibling mathematical theories in the computer science party, but we now see it more and more in studies of computational...

Over the past two decades, information theory has reemerged within computational complexity theory as a mathematical tool for obtaining unconditional lower bounds in a number of models, including streaming algorithms, data structures, and...

The problem of constructing error-resilient interactive protocols was introduced in the seminal works of Schulman (FOCS 1992, STOC 1993). These works show how to convert any two-party interactive protocol into one that is resilient to constant...

In the two talks, aimed at a broad mathematical audience, I'll explain my conjecture, joint with Gross, Hacking, and Siebert, which says, informally, that if you live on a Calabi Yau, your world comes with an intrinsic global positioning system...

The "moduli space" for principally polarized complex $n$ dimensional Abelian varieties with real structure (that is, anti-holomorphic involution) may be identified with a certain locally symmetric space for the group $\mathrm{GL}(n)$ over the real...

I will describe joint work-in-progress with Sheel Ganatra and Vivek Shende. We introduce a class of Liouville manifolds with boundary, called Liouville sectors, in which Floer theory is well behaved (a condition on the characteristic foliation of...

We will describe a new construction of filtration on categories. Applications to classical questions in geometry and group theory will be discussed.