Previous Conferences & Workshops

This is the second of two talks in which the speaker will discuss the development of the theory of Toeplitz matrices and determinants in response to questions arising in the analysis of the Ising model of statistical mechanics. The first talk will...

A linear property of Banach spaces is called "local" if it depends on finite number of vectors and is invariant under renorming (i.e., distorting the norm by a finite factor). A famous theorem of Ribe states that local properties are invariant under...

This is the first of two talks in which the speaker will discuss the development of the theory of Toeplitz matrices and determinants in response to questions arising in the analysis of the Ising model of statistical mechanics. The first talk will be...

We study the problem of constructing extractors for independent weak random sources. The probabilistic method shows that such an extractor exists for two sources on n bits with min-entropy k >= 2 log n. On the other hand, explicit constructions are...

Abstract: Associated to an abelian variety A/K is a Galois representation which describes the action of the absolute Galois group of K on the torsion points of A. In this talk, we shall describe how large the image of this representation can be (in...

Abstract: Machine learning is a vibrant field with many rich techniques. However, most approaches in the field are heuristic: we cannot prove good bounds on either their performance or their running time, except in quite limited settings. This talk...