Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
01
2024

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

A New Approach to Strong Convergence
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

It was conjectured by Alon in the 1980s that random d-regular graphs have the largest possible spectral gap (up to negligible error) among all d-regular graphs. This conjecture was proved by Friedman in 2004 in major tour de force. In recent years...

Sep
30
2024

Joint IAS/PU Arithmetic Geometry

Perfectoidness via Sen Theory and Applications to Shimura Varieties
3:35pm|*Princeton University, Fine Hall 224*

Sen's theorem on the ramification of a p-adic analytic Galois extension of p-adic local fields shows that its perfectoidness is equivalent to the non-vanishing of its arithmetic Sen operator. By developing p-adic Hodge theory for general valuation...

Sep
30
2024

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Sorting Using Partial Information
Robert Tarjan
11:00am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

We consider the problem of sorting a set of items having an unknown total order by doing binary comparisons of the items, given the outcomes of some pre-existing comparisons. We present a simple new algorithm with a running time of O(m + n + log T)...