Previous Conferences & Workshops

Sep
25
2014

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Symplectic fillings and star surgery
Laura Starkston
11:30am|S-101

Although the existence of a symplectic filling is well-understood for many contact 3-manifolds, complete classifications of all symplectic fillings of a particular contact manifold are more rare. Relying on a recognition theorem of McDuff for closed...

Sep
23
2014

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Uniform words are primitive
10:30am|S-101

Let \(G\) be a finite group, and let \(a\), \(b\), \(c\),... be independent random elements of \(G\), chosen at uniform distribution. What is the distribution of the element obtained by a fixed word in the letters \(a\), \(b\), \(c\),..., such as \...