Previous Conferences & Workshops

By studying the variation of motivic path torsors associated to a variety, we show how certain nondensity assertions in Diophantine geometry can be translated to problems concerning K-groups. Then we use some vanishing theorems to obtain concrete...

We discuss some properties of a version of the one-dimensional totally asymmetric zero-range process in which a particle hops to the nearest neighbor site with rate proportional to \(1-q^n\), with \(n\) being the number of particles at the site. The...

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...