Previous Conferences & Workshops

This talk recalls how Gromov's classic non-squeezing theorem from symplectic geometry was first conjectured, based on a connection between eigenvalue problems from PDE and the uncertainty principle from elementary quantum mechanics.

One of the key scientific contributions of the 20th century, Claude Shannon’s “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” created the field of...

The talk is about the dynamics of a tracer particle coupled strongly to a dense non-interacting electron gas in two dimensions. I will present a recent result that shows that for high densities the tracer particle moves freely for very long times.

I will recall the construction of the space of states in a gauged topological A-model. Conjecturally, this gives the quantum cohomology of Fano symplectic quotients: in the toric case, this is Batyrev’s presentation of quantum cohomology of toric...

I'll explain the main result on my paper with Kentaro 1308.2438 [hep-th], which recovers (and generalizes) Iritani's central charge expression, that can be found, for example, in 0903.1463[math.AG]. For this physics derivation I'll have to introduce...

Seeded and seedless non-malleable extractors are non-trivial generalizations of the more commonly studied seeded and seedless extractors. The original motivation for constructing such non-malleable extractors are from applications to cryptography...

For certain applications of linear algebra, it is useful to understand the distribution of the largest eigenvalue of a finite sum of discrete random matrices. One of the useful tools in this area is the "Matrix Chernoff" bound which gives tight...