Previous Conferences & Workshops

May
10
2016

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

On the Hilbert Property and the fundamental group of algebraic varieties
4:30pm|Fine 214, Princeton University

This concerns recent work with P. Corvaja in which we relate the Hilbert Property for an algebraic variety (a kind of axiom linked with Hilbert Irreducibility, relevant e.g. for the Inverse Galois Problem) with the fundamental group of the variety...

May
06
2016

Celebrating Emmy Noether

Emmy Noether: breathtaking mathematics
4:15pm|S-101

By the mid 1920s, Emmy Noether had made fundamental contributions to commutative algebra and to the theory of invariants. Her crowning achievement from this period was "Noether's Theorem," establishing deep connections between conserved quantities...

May
06
2016

Celebrating Emmy Noether

Symmetry and conservation laws: Noether's contribution to physics
2:30pm|S-101

A single result of Noether's is widely credited in physics papers as fundamental to the modern way of approaching physics. Two basic ideas are those of symmetry on the one side and the notion of quantities such as energy preserved under flows on the...