Previous Conferences & Workshops

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a method for a user to interact with t non-colluding servers and read some entry of a database of size n without revealing to the servers anything about which entry of the database was read. After a long line...

How many algebraic integers of bounded height have a minimal polynomial with a given Galois group? One approach to this problem is via Malle's conjecture. In this talk we will discuss an alternative approach using a construction with the Galois...

A real plane algebraic curve C is called expressive if its defining polynomial has the smallest number of critical points allowed by the topology of the set of real points of C. We give a necessary and sufficient criterion for expressivity (subject...

We present a combinatorial approach to the Deligne-Mumford-Knudsen compactification of the moduli space of n distinct points on the projective line $P^1$. The idea is to choose a totally symmetric embedding of the orbits of generic points into a...

The theory of quantum cohomology was developed in the early 1990s by physicists working in the field of superstring theory.

Mathematicians then discovered applications to enumerative geometry, counting the number of rational curves of a given degree...

I’ll describe a circle of ideas that links Schubert polynomials with representation theory, via some configuration spaces studied by Magyar (and which include Schubert’s famous space of complete triangles). Most of the geometric connections were...

We show that various classical theorems of linear incidence geometry, such as the theorems of Pappus, Desargues, Möbius, and so on, can be interpreted as special cases of a general result that involves a tiling of a closed oriented surface by...

The Boone-Higman conjecture (1973) predicts that a finitely generated group has solvable word problem if and only if it embeds in a finitely presented simple group. The "if" direction is true and easy, but the "only if" direction has been open for...

Parallels between elliptic and parabolic theory of partial differential equations have long been explored. In particular, since elliptic theory can be seen as a steady-state version of parabolic theory, if a parabolic estimate holds, then by...