Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
01
2017

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar

Hyperuniformity in many-particle systems and its generalizations
1:30pm

Hyperuniform many-particle systems have density fluctuations that are anomalously suppressed at long wavelengths compared to the fluctuations in typical disordered point configurations, such as ideal gases, liquids and glasses. All perfect crystals...

Mar
01
2017

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Canonical coordinates for Calabi Yau manifolds I
10:45am

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...

Feb
28
2017

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Structural and computational aspects of Brascamp-Lieb inequalities
10:30am

The celebrated Brascamp-Lieb (BL) inequalities are an important mathematical tool, unifying and generalizing numerous inequalities in analysis, convex geometry and information theory, with many used in computer science. I will survey the well...

Feb
27
2017

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

New insights on the (non)-hardness of circuit minimization and related problems
Eric Allender
11:15am

The Minimum Circuit Size Problem (MCSP) and a related problem (MKTP) that deals with time-bounded Kolmogorov complexity are prominent candidates for NP-intermediate status. We present new results relating the complexity of various approximation...

Feb
24
2017

Marston Morse Lectures

Folding papers and turbulent flows
3:30pm|S-101

In the fifties John Nash astonished the geometers with his celebrated isometric embedding theorems. A folkloristic explanation of his first theorem is that you should be able to put any piece of paper in your pocket without crumpling or folding it...