Previous Conferences & Workshops

Apr
02
2014

Goncharov Reading Group

Back to the paper!
Inna Zakharevich and Christopher Brav
10:00am|West Bldg. Lect. Hall

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.

Apr
01
2014

Special Number Theory Seminar

Statistical behavior of eigenforms on quaternion algebras
Paul Nelson
3:30pm|Fine 1201, Princeton University

I will discuss an approach to studying the limiting behavior of automorphic forms on quaternion algebras that succeeds admirably when the levels involved are large squares, and describe some new technical problems that arise in trying to relax this...

Apr
01
2014

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Byzantine Agreement in Expected Polynomial Time
10:30am|West Bldg. Lect. Hall

Byzantine agreement is a fundamental problem of distributed computing which involves coordination of players when a constant fraction are controlled by a malicious adversary. Each player starts with a bit, and the goal is for all good players to...