Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
30
2012

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

A Reverse Isoperimetric Inequality for J-Holomorphic curves
11:00am|Fine Hall 401

I'll discuss a bound on the length of the boundary of a J-holomorphic curve with Lagrangian boundary conditions by a constant times its area. The constant depends on the symplectic form, the almost complex structure, the Lagrangian boundary...

Nov
29
2012

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Sato-Tate Distributions in Genus 2
Andrew Sutherland
4:30pm|S-101

For an abelian surface A over a number field k, we study the limiting distribution of the normalized Euler factors of the L-function of A. Under the generalized Sato-Tate conjecture, this is equal to the distribution of characteristic polynomials of...

Nov
27
2012

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Computational Complexity in Mechanism Design
10:30am|S-101

Some important mechanisms considered in game theory require solving optimization problems that are computationally hard. Solving these problems approximately may not help, as it may change the players’ rational behavior in the original mechanisms...