Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
14
2024

Joint IAS/PU Arithmetic Geometry

On the converse to Eisenstein's last theorem
3:35pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Eisenstein proved, in 1852, that if a function f(z) is algebraic, then its Taylor expansion at a point has coefficients lying in some finitely-generated Z-algebra. I will explain ongoing joint work with Josh Lam which studies the extent to which the...

Oct
14
2024

Members' Colloquium

Reading Alan Turing
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I will discuss some well-known and less-known papers of Turing, exemplify the scope of deep, prescient ideas he put forth, and mention follow-up work on these by the Theoretical CS community.

 

No special background will be assumed.

Oct
14
2024

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Analytic Insights into the Zig-Zag Product and Its Friends: Part I
Gil Cohen
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The well-known Zig-Zag product and related graph operators, like derandomized squaring, are fundamentally combinatorial in nature. Classical bounds on their behavior often rely on a mix of combinatorics and linear algebra. However, these traditional...

Oct
11
2024

Joint IAS/Princeton/Montreal/Paris/Tel-Aviv Symplectic Geometry Zoominar

Floer Homology with DG Coefficients. Applications to Cotangent Bundles
Alexandru Oancea
9:15am|Remote Access

Given a path-connected topological space X, a differential graded (DG) local system (or derived local system) is a module over the DGA of chains on the based loop space of X. I will explain how to define in the symplectically aspherical case...

Oct
10
2024

Joint PU/IAS Number Theory

Second Moment of the GL_3 Standard L-function on the Critical Line
Matthew Young
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The second and fourth moments of the Riemann zeta function have been known for about a century, but the sixth moment remains elusive.  

The sixth moment of zeta can be thought of as the second moment of a GL_3 Eisenstein series, and it is natural to...

Oct
09
2024

Special Year Seminar I

Combinatorial Inequalities and Combinatorial Interpretations: Part III
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

In the third talk, I will concentrate on inequalities for linear extensionsof finite posets.  I will start with several inequalities which do have a combinatorial proof.  I will then turn to Stanley's inequality and outline the proof why its defect...

Oct
08
2024

Joint IAS/PU Groups and Dynamics Seminar

Non-escape of Mass for Arithmetic Quantum Limits on Hyperbolic 4-Manifolds
Alexandre de Faveri
4:30pm|Simonyi 101

The Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity (AQUE) conjecture predicts that the $L^2$ mass of Hecke-Maass cusp forms on an arithmetic hyperbolic manifold becomes equidistributed as the Laplace eigenvalue grows. If the underlying manifold is non-compact...

Oct
08
2024

Analysis and Mathematical Physics

Higher Dimensional Fourier Quasicrystals from Lee-Yang Varieties
Pavel Kurasov
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Fourier Quasicrystals (FQ) are defined as crystalline measures $$ \mu = \sum_{\lambda \in \Lambda} a_\lambda \delta_\lambda, \quad \hat{\mu} = \sum_{s \in S} b_s \delta_s, $$ so that not only $ \mu $ (and hence $ \hat{\mu} $) are tempered...