Previous Conferences & Workshops

The Goncharov reading group is an informal seminar which will read the paper "Volumes of hyperbolic manifolds and mixed Tate motives" and related materials. We will meet on Wednesdays at 10 am in Simonyi 114.

I will explain joint work with Kannan Soundararajan, where we find an "L-function analogue" of the Brun-Hooley sieve. Essentially, our method allows us to work analytically with long truncated Euler products inside the critical strip. As a...

The P != NP conjecture doesn't tell us what runtime is needed to solve NP-hard problems like 3-SAT and Hamiltonian Path. While some clever algorithms are known, they all require exponential time, and some researchers suspect that this is unavoidable...

It is well known that a finitely generated torsion abelian group A is finite, and thus carries no `rational' information. However, if the torsion group A is not finitely generated, then there exist meaningful ways to extract rational information out...

There has been substantial progress on algorithmic versions and generalizations of the Lovasz Local Lemma recently, with some of the main ideas getting simplified as well. I will survey some of the main ideas of Moser & Tardos, Pegden, and David...

Let A be an affine variety inside a complex N dimensional vector space which either has an isolated singularity at the origin or is smooth at the origin. The intersection of A with a very small sphere turns out to be a contact manifold called the...

I will outline a way to extend the construction of Viterbo's transfer map in symplectic homology to nonexact embeddings of one Liouville domain into another. The approach is motivated by SFT, but at least parts of it can be implemented independently...

In his first letter to G. H. Hardy, Ramanujan hinted at a theory of continued fractions. He offered shocking evaluations which Hardy described as: "These formulas defeated me completely...they could only be written down by a mathematician of the...