Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
07
2012

Symplectic Dynamics Seminar

Arnold Diffusion via Normally Hyperbolic Invariant Cylinders and Mather Variational Method, Part I
2:00pm|West Bldg. Lecture Hall

In 1964 Arnold constructed an example of instabilities for nearly integrable systems and conjectured that generically this phenomenon takes place. There has been big progress attacking this conjecture in the past decade. Jointly with Ke Zhang we...

Mar
06
2012

Analysis Seminar

Various Approaches to Semiclassical Quantum Dynamics
George A. Hagedorn
2:00pm|S-101

I shall describe several techniques for finding approximate solutions to the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in the semiclassical limit. The first of these involves expansions in "semiclassical wave packets" that are also sometimes called...

Mar
06
2012

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Applications of FT-Mollification
10:30am|S-101

In FT-mollification, one smooths a function while maintaining good quantitative control on high-order derivatives. I will describe this approach and show how it can be used to show that bounded independence fools polynomial threshold functions over...

Mar
05
2012

Members’ Seminar

Local Correction of Codes and Euclidean Incidence Geometry
2:00pm|S-101

A classical theorem in Euclidean geometry asserts that if a set of points has the property that every line through two of them contains a third point, then they must all be on the same line. We prove several approximate versions of this theorem (and...

Mar
05
2012

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

The Complexity of Distributions
11:15am|S-101

Complexity theory, with some notable exceptions, typically studies the complexity of computing a function h(x) of a *given* input x. We advocate the study of the complexity of generating -- or sampling -- the output distribution h(x) for random x...