Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
05
2015

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Is optimization computationally equivalent to online learning?
Elad Hazan
11:15am|West Bldg. Lect. Hall

Vapnik's fundamental theorem of statistical learning establishes a computational equivalence between optimization (empirical risk minimization) and learning in the statistical setting. Is the same true for learning in games? We give a precise answer...

Oct
05
2015

Workshop on Geometric Structures on 3-Manifolds

8:00am

This workshop was part of the topical program "Geometric Structures on 3-Manifolds" which took place during the 2015-2016 academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study. The goal of the October workshop was to explore the classification of...

Oct
02
2015

Joint IAS/Princeton/Columbia Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Non-trivial Hamiltonian fibrations via K-theory quantization
3:30pm|S-101

We produce examples of non-trivial Hamiltonian fibrations that are not detected by previous methods (the characteristic classes of Reznikov for example), and improve theorems of Reznikov and Spacil on cohomology-surjectivity to the level of...

Oct
02
2015

Joint IAS/Princeton/Columbia Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Lagrangian cobordism: what we know and what is it good for
2:00pm|S-101

I will describe how the notion of Lagrangian cobordism, introduced by Arnold in 1980, offers a systematic perspective on the study of Lagrangian topology. There are three aspects that will be emphasized: the relations with the triangulated structure...