Previous Conferences & Workshops

I'll give an introduction to some of the new relations between geometry and physics that have arisen in recent years by considering compactifications of "The 6-dimensional (2,0) theory" -- with ties to (and among) instanton counting, Hitchin moduli...

In Voevodsky’s experience, the work of a mathematician is 5% creative insight and 95% self-verification. Moreover, the more original the insight, the more one has to pay for it later in self-verification work. The Univalent Foundationsa project...

We consider the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with initial conditions and/or jump rates such that shocks are generated. If the initial condition is deterministic, then the shock at time t will have a width of order \(t^{1/3}\). We...

Edge reinforced random walk (ERRW) and vertex reinforced jump processes are history dependent stochastic process, where the particle tends to come back more often on sites it has already visited in the past. For a particular scheme of reinforcement...

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.

Hirota relations in their various incarnations play an important role in both classical and quantum integrable systems, from matrix integrals and PDE's to one-dimensional quantum spin chains and two dimensional quantum field theories (QFT). The...

Let \(N \geq 3\). In this talk, I will sketch a proof that the ring generated by Eisenstein series of weight \(1\) on the principal congruence subgroup \(\Gamma(N)\) contains all modular forms in weights \(2\) and above. This means that the only...

The goal of computationally sound symbolic security is to create formal systems of cryptography which have a sound interpretation with respect to complexity-based notions of security. While there has been much progress in the development of such...

We revisit the question, originally posed by Yao (1982), of whether encryption security may be characterized using computational information. Yao provided an affirmative answer, using a compression-based notion of computational information to give a...

More than twenty years ago, Witten proposed a remarkable conjecture connecting the geometry of moduli space of curve or Gromov-Witten theory of point to KdV integrable hierarchies (solved by Kontsevich). Since then, Witten's conjecture opened up a...