Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
25
2013

Members’ Seminar

Rigidity of Actions on CAT(0) Cube Complexes
2:00pm|S-101

We illustrate how bounded cohomology with coefficients can be used to prove rigidity theorems for groups acting on non-positively curved spaces, among which CAT(0) cube complexes.

Mar
25
2013

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

New Locally Decodable Codes from Lifting
Madhu Sudan
11:15am|S-101

Locally decodable codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes that allow for highly-efficient recovery of "pieces" of information even after arbitrary corruption of a codeword. Locally testable codes (LTCs) are those that allow for highly-efficient...

Mar
20
2013

Mathematical Conversations

A Trip to the Moon
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

Chaos Theory has been applied to find low energy spacecraft trajectories beginning with the successful Japanese lunar mission Hiten in 1991. The orbit design of this mission was based on the empirical concept of a `weak stability boundary’, due to...