Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
19
2012

Members’ Seminar

Univalent Foundations
2:00pm|S-101

This talk is intended for a general audience. The recent discovery of an interpretation of constructive type theory into abstract homotopy theory has led to a new approach to foundations with both intrinsic geometric content and a computational...

Nov
16
2012

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Abstract Analogues of Flux as Symplectic Invariants
4:30pm|S-101

This talk is part of a circle of ideas that one could call ``categorical dynamics''. We look at how objects of the Fukaya category move under deformations prescribed by fixing an odd degree quantum cohomology class. This is an analogue of moving...

Nov
15
2012

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Galois Representations for Regular Algebraic Cuspidal Automorphic Forms
4:30pm|S-101

To any essentially self-dual, regular algebraic (ie cohomological) automorphic representation of GL(n) over a CM field one knows how to associate a compatible system of l-adic representations. These l-adic representations occur (perhaps slightly...

Nov
14
2012

Mathematical Conversations

The Prisoner's Dilemma
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

The game of Prisoner's Dilemma is the simplest non-trivial game for two players. It has been studied by game-theory experts for fifty years. So it came as a big surprise this year when Bill Press discovered a new set of strategies which allow one...

Nov
13
2012

Analysis Seminar

A Non-Commutative Analog of the 2-Wasserstein Metric for which the Fermionic Fokker-Planck Equation is Gradient Flow for the Entropy
Eric Carlen
3:15pm|S-101

The Fermionic Fokker-Planck equation is a quantum-mechanical analog of the classical Fokker-Planck equation with which it has much in common, such as the same optimal hypercontractivity properties. In this paper we construct a Riemannian metric on...