Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
14
2013

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

An Analogue of the Ichino-Ikeda Conjecture for Whittaker Coefficients of the Metaplectic Group
Erez Lapid
4:30pm|S-101

A few years ago Ichino-Ikeda formulated a quantitative version of the Gross-Prasad conjecture, modeled after the classical work of Waldspurger. This is a powerful local-to-global principle which is very suitable for analytic and arithmetic...

Mar
14
2013

Marston Morse Lectures

The Codimension Barrier in Incidence Geometry
2:00pm|S-101

Incidence geometry is a part of combinatorics that studies the intersection patterns of geometric objects. For example, suppose that we have a set of L lines in the plane. A point is called r-rich if it lies in r different lines from the set. For a...

Mar
13
2013

Marston Morse Lectures

What is Special About Polynomials? (Perspectives from Coding theory and Differential Geometry)
2:00pm|S-101

Polynomials are a special class of functions. They are useful in many branches of mathematics, often in problems which don't mention polynomials. We discuss two examples: polynomials in error-correcting codes and polynomials in geometric...

Mar
12
2013

Marston Morse Lectures

Unexpected Applications of Polynomials in Combinatorics
2:00pm|S-101

In 2007, Zeev Dvir shocked experts by giving a one-page proof of the finite field Kakeya problem. The new idea in the proof was to introduce high degree polynomials into a problem about points and lines. This idea has led to progress on several...

Mar
12
2013

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Sensitivity Versus Block Sensitivity, I
10:30am|S-101

There are two important measures of the complexity of a boolean function: the sensitivity and block sensitivity. Whether or not they are polynomial related remains a major open question. In this talk I will survey some known results on this...