Previous Conferences & Workshops

Dec
18
2012

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

The SOS (aka Lassere/Positivestellensatz/Sum-of-Squares) System
(1) Raghu Meka and (2) Avi Wigderson
10:30am|S-101

We will give an overview of this system, which has been at the center of recent algorithmic and proof complexity developments. We will give the definitions of the system (as a proof system for polynomial inequalities, and as an SDP-based algorithm)...

Dec
14
2012

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Arnold Conjecture for Clifford Symplectic Pencils
4:30pm|Fine Hall 322

A symplectic pencil is a linear family of symplectic forms, i.e., a linear space of two-forms, each of which, except of course the zero form, is symplectic. Symplectic pencils arise, for instance, from representations of Clifford algebras and can be...

Dec
13
2012

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Local Global Principles for Galois Cohomology
4:30pm|S-101

We consider Galois cohomology groups over function fields F of curves that are defined over a complete discretely valued field. Motivated by work of Kato and others for n=3, we show that local-global principles hold for H^n(F, Z/mZ(n-1)) for all n>1...