Previous Conferences & Workshops

This talk will discuss the question: To what extent are the fundamental groups of compact 3-manifolds determined (amongst the fundamental groups of compact 3-manifolds) by their finite quotients. We will discuss work that provides a positive answer...

We will continue Monday's talk on constant-round interactive proofs, going into more details of the full construction and its proof. We will also briefly recap Monday's talk so that it will be beneficial to those who cannot attend on Monday.

The problem of comparing the shapes of different surfaces turns up in different guises in numerous fields. I will discuss a way to put a metric on the space of smooth Riemannian 2-spheres (i.e. shapes) that allows for comparing their geometric...

Interactive proofs have had a dramatic impact on Complexity Theory and Cryptography. In particular, the celebrated IP=PSPACE Theorem [LFKN92,Shamir92] allows an all-powerful but untrusted prover to convince a polynomial-time verifier of the validity...

I will talk about bilipschitz geometry of complex algebraic sets, focusing on the local geometry in dimension 2 (complex surface singularities), where the topological classification has long been understood in terms of 3-manifolds, while the...