Previous Conferences & Workshops

I will report on joint work with Nick Sheridan concerning structural aspects of mirror symmetry for Calabi-Yau manifolds. We show (i) that Kontsevich's homological mirror symmetry (HMS) conjecture is a consequence of a fragment of the same...

Let \(k\) be an algebraically closed field and let \(c:C\rightarrow X\times X\) be a correspondence. Let \(\ell \) be a prime invertible in \(k\) and let \(K\in D^b_c(X, \overline {\mathbb Q}_\ell )\) be a complex. An action of \(c\) on \(K\) is by...

We will state a number of problems with completely different origins, and reformulate them in terms of questions about what happens when you multiply integer matrices. (In fancy words, these are called the "Affine Sieve" or a "Local-Global Principle...

This is not a mathematics talk but it is a talk for mathematicians. Too often, we think of historical mathematicians as only names assigned to theorems. With vignettes and anecdotes, I'll convince you they were also human beings and that, as the...

In cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a microscope generates a top view of a sample of randomly-oriented copies of a molecule. The cryo-EM problem is to use the resulting set of noisy 2D projection images taken at unknown directions to reconstruct...

In this talk we will present an overview of the hypermatrix generalization of matrix algebra proposed by Mesner and Bhattacharya in 1990. We will discuss a spectral theorem for hypermatrices deduced from this algebra as well as connections with...