Previous Conferences & Workshops

Sep
20
2016

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Algebraic geometric codes and their applications
10:30am|S-101

In 1975 Goppa suggested a general method for constructing error correcting codes based on algebraic geometry. In a long line of research such codes were constructed, constituting as a precious example of a construction that beats the probabilistic...

Sep
20
2016

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Lagrangian cell complexes and Markov numbers
Jonny Evans
10:30am|West Building Lecture Hall

Joint work with Ivan Smith. Let p be a positive integer. Take the quotient of a 2-disc by the equivalence relation which identifies two boundary points if the boundary arc connecting them subtends an angle which is an integer multiple of ($2 \pi / p...

Sep
15
2016

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Modular forms and optimization in Euclidean space
Maryna Viazovska
4:30pm|Fine 214, Princeton University

In this talk we will show how modular forms can be applied to energy minimization problems in Euclidean space. Namely, we will explain Cohn-Elkies linear programming method and present explicit constructions of corresponding certificate functions...

Sep
01
2016

Homological Mirror Symmetry

12:00am
Image by Ailsa Keating, used with permission The subject of the program in context

HMS started with Kontsevich's 1994 ICM address. By now, it is a mature area of mathematics in its own right, but still one that can be approached from many...