Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
02
2016

Homological Mirror Symmetry Seminar

Riemann-Hilbert correspondence revisited
10:45am|West Building Lecture Hall

Conventional Riemann-Hilbert correspondence relates the category of holonomic $D$-modules (de Rham side) with the category of constructible sheaves (Betti side). I am going to reconsider this relationship from the point of view of deformation...

Nov
01
2016

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Lagrangian Whitney sphere links
Ivan Smith
1:30pm|West Building Lecture Hall

Let $n > 1$. Given two maps of an $n$-dimensional sphere into Euclidean $2n$-space with disjoint images, there is a $\mathbb Z/2$ valued linking number given by the homotopy class of the corresponding Gauss map. We prove, under some restrictions on...

Nov
01
2016

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Settling the complexity of computing approximate two-player Nash equilibria
Aviad Rubinstein
10:30am|West Building Lecture Hall

We prove that there exists a constant $\epsilon > 0$ such that, assuming the Exponential Time Hypothesis for PPAD, computing an $\epsilon$-approximate Nash equilibrium in a two-player ($n \times n$) game requires quasi-polynomial time, $n^{\log^{1-o...

Oct
31
2016

Members’ Seminar

Reciprocity laws for torsion classes
1:15pm

The law of quadratic reciprocity and the celebrated connection between modular forms and elliptic curves over $\mathbb Q$ are both examples of reciprocity laws. Constructing new reciprocity laws is one of the goals of the Langlands program, which is...