Previous Conferences & Workshops

The (derived) Fukaya category is a symplectic invariant developed out of work of Gromov, Floer, Fukaya, Kontsevich and Seidel that encodes the rigidity properties of Lagrangian intersections. The purpose of the talk is to discuss the construction of...

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Schedule: https://sites.google.com/site/thingroups/schedule

What is the distribution of the number of triangles in the random graph $G(n, 1/2)$? It was known for a long time that this distribution obeys a central limit theorem: from the point of view of large intervals (~ standard-deviation length), the...

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Schubert's Wandererfantasie is one of the most monumental and revolutionary piano pieces ever composed. I will highlight some of the structural novelties that were adapted later by Liszt, Wagner, Franck and others, and I will play the piece.

Markoff numbers give rise to extremely low-lying reciprocal geodesics on the modular surface, but it is unknown whether infinitely many of these are fundamental, that is, the corresponding binary quadratic form has fundamental discriminant. In joint...