Previous Conferences & Workshops

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...

Nov
12
2012

Members’ Seminar

Proof of a 35 Year Old Conjecture for the Entropy of SU(2) Coherent States, and its Generalization.
Elliot Lieb
2:00pm|S-101

35 years ago Wehrl defined a classical entropy of a quantum density matrix using Gaussian (Schr\"odinger, Bargmann, ...) coherent states. This entropy, unlike other classical approximations, has the virtue of being positive. He conjectured that the...

Nov
09
2012

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

An Arithmetic Refinement of Homological Mirror Symmetry for the 2-Torus
Yanki Lekili
4:30pm|S-101

We establish a derived equivalence of the Fukaya category of the 2-torus, relative to a basepoint, with the category of perfect complexes on the Tate curve over Z[q]. It specializes to an equivalence, over Z, of the Fukaya category of the punctured...