Previous Conferences & Workshops

Apr
03
2012

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Better Pseudorandom Generators from Milder Pseudorandom Restrictions
Parikshit Gopalan
10:30am|S-101

We present an iterative approach to constructing pseudorandom generators, based on the repeated application of mild pseudorandom restrictions. We use this template to construct pseudorandom generators for combinatorial rectangles and read-once CNFs...

Apr
02
2012

Members’ Seminar

The Heisenberg Algebra in Symplectic Algebraic Geometry
Anthony Licata
2:00pm|S-101

Part of geometric representation theory involves constructing representations of algebras on the cohomology of algebraic varieties. A great example of such a construction is the work of Nakajima and Grojnowski, who independently constructed an...

Apr
02
2012

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Rational Proofs
Pablo Azar
11:15am|S-101

We study a new type of proof system, where an unbounded prover and a polynomial time verifier interact, on inputs a string $x$ and a function $f$, so that the Verifier may learn $f(x)$. The novelty of our setting is that there no longer are ``good"...

Mar
30
2012

Special Number Theory Seminar

Cup Products in Automorphic Cohomology
Matthew Kerr
4:00pm|S-101

In three very interesting and suggestive papers, H. Carayol introduced new aspects of complex geometry and Hodge theory into the study of non-classical automorphic representations -- in particular, those involving the totally degenerate limits of...