Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
04
2013

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Positive loops and orderability in contact geometry
Peter Weigel
1:00pm|S-101

Orderability of contact manifolds is related in some non-obvious ways to the topology of a contact manifold \(\Sigma\). We know, for instance, that if \(\Sigma\) admits a 2-subcritical Stein filling, it must be non-orderable. By way of contrast, in...

Oct
03
2013

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Pairs of \(p\)-adic \(L\)-functions for elliptic curves at supersingular primes
4:30pm|Fine 214, Princeton University

Iwasawa Theory for elliptic curves/modular forms has been traditionally in better shape at ordinary primes than at supersingular ones. After sketching the ordinary theory, we will indicate what makes the supersingular case more complicated, and then...

Oct
03
2013

Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices

Disorder-generated multifractals and random matrices: freezing phenomena and extremes
Yan Fyodorov
11:00am|S-101

I will start with discussing the relation between a class of disorder-generated multifractals and logarithmically-correlated random fields and processes. An important example of the latter is provided by the so-called "\(1/f\) noise" which, in...