Previous Conferences & Workshops

Jan
17
2017

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

The polynomial method: more results and open questions
Jordan Ellenberg
11:35am|S-101

This will be a bit of a "grab bag" talk where I discuss some results and open questions in combinatorial geometry which are either approachable by the polynomial method or which I hope are approachable by the polynomial method! I will talk about...

Jan
17
2017

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

The polynomial method and the cap set problem
Jordan Ellenberg
10:30am|S-101

The "cap set problem" asks for the size of the largest subset $S$ of the vector space $\mathbb F_3^n$ containing no three elements summing to 0. Progress on this problem was slow for many years, until the spring of 2016, when a very short argument...

Jan
16
2017

Members’ Seminar

No seminar today: MLK Jr. Day
No seminar today: MLK Jr. Day
2:00pm|S-101
Dec
16
2016

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Numerical invariants from bounding chains
10:45am|S-101

I'll begin with a leisurely introduction to Fukaya A-infinity algebras and their bounding chains. Then I'll explain how to use bounding chains to define open Gromov-Witten invariants. The bounding chain invariants can be computed using an open...

Dec
14
2016

Homological Mirror Symmetry (Mini-Course)

Numerical invariants from bounding chains
10:45am|S-101

I'll begin with a leisurely introduction to Fukaya A-infinity algebras and their bounding chains. Then I'll explain how to use bounding chains to define open Gromov-Witten invariants. The bounding chain invariants can be computed using an open...