Previous Conferences & Workshops

Dec
05
2011

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Towards Coding for Maximum Errors in Interactive Communication
11:15am|S-101

We show that it is possible to encode any communication protocol between two parties so that the protocol succeeds even if a (1/4-epsilon) fraction of all symbols transmitted by the parties are corrupted adversarially, at a cost of increasing the...

Dec
02
2011

Geometry Seminar

On Seifert Fibered 4-Manifolds
1:30pm|S-101

Seifert fibered 4-manifolds are the 4-dimensional analog of Seifert 3-manifolds in that these are the 4-manifolds which admit a fixed-point free smooth circle action. In this talk I'll first review what is known and then present some recent results...

Dec
01
2011

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

A Second MainTerm for Counting Cubic Fields, and Biases in Arithmetic Progressions
Takashi Taniguchi
4:30pm|S-101

We prove the existence of second main term of order X^{5/6} for the function counting cubic fields. This confirms a conjecture of Datskovsky-Wright and Roberts. We also prove a variety of generalizations, including to arithmetic progressions, where...

Nov
29
2011

Joint IAS/Princeton University Mathematical Physics Seminar

Macdonald Processes and Some Applications in Probability and Integrable Systems
Ivan Corwin
4:30pm|S-101

Macdonald processes are probability measures on sequences of partitions de?ned in terms of nonnegative specializations of the Macdonald symmetric functions and two parameters q, t ? [0,1). Utilizing the Macdonald difference operators we prove...