Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
28
2014

Topology of Algebraic Varieties

Singular moduli spaces and Nakajima quiver varieties
2:00pm|S-101

The aim of this talk is to study a class of singularities of moduli spaces of sheaves on K3 surfaces by means of Nakajima quiver varieties. The singularities in question arise from the choice of a non generic polarization, with respect to which we...

Oct
28
2014

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Exponential separation of information and communication
10:30am|S-101

In profoundly influential works, Shannon and Huffman show that if Alice wants to send a message \(X\) to Bob, it's sufficient for her to send roughly \(H(X)\) bits (in expectation), where \(H\) denotes Shannon's entropy function. In other words, the...

Oct
27
2014

Members’ Seminar

Apery, irrationality proofs and dinner parties
2:00pm|S-101

After introducing an elementary criterion for a real number to be irrational, I will discuss Apery's famous result proving the irrationality of \(\zeta(3)\). Then I will give an overview of subsequent results in this field, and finally propose a...

Oct
27
2014

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Discretization and quantitative differentiation
11:15am|S-101

Geometric questions for discrete objects (e.g. isoperimetry, integrality gaps, embeddings) are often easier to understand by first considering an appropriate continuous analogue, using additional structure that is available in the continuous setting...

Oct
24
2014

Joint IAS/Princeton/Columbia Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Symplectic embeddings from concave toric domains into convex ones
Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner
11:00am|S-101

Embedded contact homology gives a sequence of obstructions to four-dimensional symplectic embeddings, called ECH capacities. These obstructions are known to be sharp in several interesting cases, for example for symplectic embeddings of one...

Oct
23
2014

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

An algebro-geometric theory of vector-valued modular forms of half-integral weight
Luca Candelori
4:30pm|S-101

We give a geometric theory of vector-valued modular forms attached to Weil representations of rank 1 lattices. More specifically, we construct vector bundles over the moduli stack of elliptic curves, whose sections over the complex numbers...