Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
11
2013

Members’ Seminar

Random Matrices, Dimensionality Reduction, and Faster Numerical Linear Algebra Algorithms
2:00pm|S-101

A fundamental theorem in linear algebra is that any real n x d matrix has a singular value decomposition (SVD). Several important numerical linear algebra problems can be solved efficiently once the SVD of an input matrix is computed: e.g. least...

Mar
11
2013

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Intractability in Algorithmic Game Theory
Tim Roughgarden
11:15am|S-101

We discuss three areas of algorithmic game theory that have grappled with intractability. The first is the complexity of computing game-theoretic equilibria, like Nash equilibria. There is an urgent need for new ideas on this topic, to enable...

Mar
08
2013

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Lagrangian Caps in High-Dimensional Symplectic Manifolds
1:30pm|Fine Hall 322

I will present a recent result (joint with Yakov Eliashberg) demonstrating the existence of exact Lagrangian cobordisms with a loose Legendrian in the negative end, in all dimensions greater than 4. In particular, we show that there exists a...

Mar
07
2013

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Goren-Oort Stratification of Hilbert Modular Varieties mod p and Tate Conjecture
Liang Xiao
4:30pm|Fine Hall 214

In this talk, I will report on an on-going joint project with David Helm and Yichao Tian. Let p be a prime unramified in a totally real field F. The Goren-Oort strata are defined by the vanishing locus of the partial Hasse-invariants; it is an...

Mar
06
2013

Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems

The Optimality of the Interleaving Distance on Multidimensional Persistence Modules
5:00pm|S-101

Persistent homology is a central object of study in applied topology. It offers a flexible framework for defining invariants, called barcodes, of point cloud data and of real valued functions. Many of the key results of the last several years in the...