Previous Conferences & Workshops

I will talk about two types of random processes -- the classical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model of spin glasses and its diluted version. One of the main goals in these models is to find a formula for the maximum of the process, or the free...

The Martians built an amazingly fast computer and they run it to answer the great question of life, the universe and everything. They claim that the answer is 42. Will they be able to convince us that this is the right answer, assuming that we do...

The Grothendieck ring of varieties over \(k\) is defined to be the free abelian group generated by varieties over \(k\), modulo the relation \([X] = [Y] + [X \backslash Y]\) for all \(X\) and closed subvarieties \(Y\). Multiplication is induced by...

In this talk we will present two structural results concerning low degree polynomials over \(GF(2)\). The first states that for any degree d polynomial \(f\) in \(n\) variables over \(GF(2)\), there exists a subspace of \(GF(2)^n\) with dimension \(...

Embedded contact homology is an invariant of a contact three-manifold, which is recently shown to be isomorphic to Heegaard Floer homology and Seiberg-Witten Floer homology. However, ECH chain complex depends on the contact form on the manifold and...

We will introduce a refinement of the `GPY sieve method' for studying small gaps between primes. This refinement will allow us to show that \(\liminf_n(p_{n+m}-p_n) \infty\) for any integer \(m\), and so there are infinitely many bounded length...

I will discuss some results, some older and some newer, on the general idea that in many birationally-Fano cases, generators of the Fukaya category seem to arise from transitions in the minimal model program. A specific result from a couple of years...