Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
23
2015

Minerva Mini-Course

Classification of Bernoulli shifts
Lewis Bowen
4:30pm|Fine 314, Princeton University

Finite models of infinite groups/actions/manifolds are useful for studying spectral and $L^2$-invariants, constructing random processes and have recently been used to introduce new invariants of group actions useful for proving nonembedding and...

Nov
23
2015

Members’ Seminar

Fun with finite covers of 3-manifolds: connections between topology, geometry, and arithmetic
2:00pm|S-101

Following the revolutionary work of Thurston and Perelman, the topology of 3-manifolds is deeply intertwined with their geometry. In particular, hyperbolic geometry, the non-Euclidean geometry of constant negative curvature, plays a central role. In...

Nov
23
2015

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Advances on Ramsey numbers
Jacob Fox
11:15am|S-101

Ramsey theory refers to a large body of deep results in mathematics whose underlying philosophy is captured succinctly by the statement that "Every very large system contains a large well-organized subsystem." Ramsey numbers capture how very large...

Nov
20
2015

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Low-area Floer theory and non-displaceability
Dmitry Tonkonog
2:30pm|Fine 322, Princeton University

I will introduce a "low-area" version of Floer cohomology of a non-monotone Lagrangian submanifold and prove that a continuous family of Lagrangian tori in $\mathbb CP^2$, whose Floer cohomology in the usual sense vanishes, is Hamiltonian non...

Nov
20
2015

Minerva Mini-Course

When does injectivity imply surjectivity?
Lewis Bowen
1:30pm|Fine 110, Princeton University

Finite models of infinite groups/actions/manifolds are useful for studying spectral and $L^2$-invariants, constructing random processes and have recently been used to introduce new invariants of group actions useful for proving nonembedding and...

Nov
19
2015

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Geometric deformations of orthogonal and symplectic Galois representations
Jeremy Booher
4:30pm|S-101

For a representation of the absolute Galois group of the rationals over a finite field of characteristic $p$, we would like to know if there exists a lift to characteristic zero with nice properties. In particular, we would like it to be geometric...

Nov
18
2015

Mathematical Conversations

An introduction to chromatic homotopy theory
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

Chromatic homotopy theory is the philosophy that homotopical phenomena should be understood via the periodicities they exhibit. Equivalently, it's the viewpoint that every prime number p hides an infinite hierarchy of "chromatic primes" of...

Nov
17
2015

Geometric Structures on 3-manifolds

The complex geometry of Teichmüller spaces and bounded symmetric domains II
Stergios Antonakoudis
4:00pm|S-101

From a complex analytic perspective, Teichmüller spaces and symmetric spaces can be realised as contractible bounded domains, which have several features in common but also exhibit many differences. In this talk we will study isometric maps between...