Previous Conferences & Workshops

Feb
28
2014

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Implicit atlases and virtual fundamental cycles
1:30pm|Fine 322, Princeton University

An implicit atlas on a (moduli) space consists of certain auxiliary (moduli) spaces satisfying a precise set of axioms. We will summarize the construction of implicit atlases on moduli spaces of \(J\)-holomorphic curves, under the assumption of a...

Feb
28
2014

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Many-body Anderson localization
David Huse
11:00am|S-101

I will review some aspects of many-body Anderson localization. Many-body localized systems have a type of integrable Hamiltonian, with an extensive set of operators that are localized in real-space that each commute with the Hamiltonian. The...

Feb
27
2014

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Sigel units and Euler systems
Antonio Lei
4:30pm|Fine 214, Princeton University

An Euler system is a family of cohomology classes that satisfy some compatibility condition under the corestriction map. Kato constructed an Euler system for a modular form over the cyclotomic extensions of \(\mathbb{Q}\). I will explain a recent...

Feb
27
2014

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

From High Dimensional Data to Big Data
Han Liu
2:00pm|S-101

We introduce a new family of robust semiparametric methods for analyzing large, complex, and noisy datasets. Our method is based on the transelliptical distribution family which assumes that the variables follow an elliptical distribution after a...

Feb
27
2014

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Quantum Hall Phases, plasma analogy and incompressibility estimates
Jakob Yngvason
11:00am|S-101

When a 2D many-particle system with a repulsive interaction is subject to a sufficiently strong magnetic field, that can also be produced by rapid rotation, strongly correlated many-body states in the lowest Landau level LLL may emerge. In the talk...

Feb
26
2014

Mathematical Conversations

Non-associative division algebras and projective geometry
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

Projective planes satisfying certain symmetry conditions correspond to non-associative division algebras, by the work of Hilbert, Dickson, Albert, Wedderburn and Veblen. Knuth began the attempt to classify them over finite fields, and very few...

Feb
26
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

An introduction to algebraic K-theory
Daniel Grayson
10:00am|S-114

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.

Feb
25
2014

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Almost Global Solutions for Incompressible Elasticity in 2D
3:00pm|S-101

The systems of elasticity in 2D are wave-type equations with two different propagation speeds at a linear level. Due to the incompressibility, the system is nonlocal and is not Lorentz invariant, but it is inherently linear degenerate. We talk about...