Previous Conferences & Workshops

Feb
12
2013

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

High Dimensional Expanders and Ramanujan Complexes
Alex Lubotzky
10:30am|S-101

Expander graphs, in general, and Ramanujan graphs, in particular, have been objects of intensive research in the last four decades. Many application came out, initially to computer science and combinatorics and more recently also to pure mathematics...

Feb
11
2013

Members’ Seminar

Homological Mirror Symmetry
2:00pm|S-101

Mirror symmetry is a deep conjectural relationship between complex and symplectic geometry. It was first noticed by string theorists. Mathematicians became interested in it when string theorists used it to predict counts of curves on the quintic...

Feb
11
2013

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Mathematical Theories of Interaction with Oracles: Active Property Testing and New Models for Learning Boolean Functions
Liu Yang
11:15am|S-101

With the notion of interaction with oracles as a unifying theme of much of my dissertation work, I discuss novel models and results for property testing and computational learning, with the use of Fourier analytic and probabilistic methods. One...

Feb
08
2013

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Toric b-Symplectic and Origami Manifolds
Ana Rita Pires
1:30pm|Fine Hall 322

Origami manifolds and b-symplectic manifolds are examples of manifolds which are symplectic except on a hypersurface Z: in the origami case, the symplectic form vanishes at Z; in the b-case, it explodes to infinity at Z. In this talk we will...

Feb
07
2013

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Relative Artin Motives and the Reductive Borel-Serre Compactification of a Locally Symmetric Variety
4:30pm|Fine Hall 214

Let $X$ be a locally symmetric variety, $\bar{X}$ its Baily-Borel compactification, $\bar{X}^{rbs}$ its reductive Borel-Serre compactification and $p:\bar{X}^{rbs} \to \bar{X}$ the canonical map. We prove that the derived direct image sheaf $Rp_*...