Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
19
2011

Symplectic Dynamics Seminar

Riemannian Exponential Map on the Group of Volume-Preserving Diffeomorphisms
4:00pm|S-101

In 1966 V. Arnold showed how solutions of the Euler equations of hydrodynamics can be viewed as geodesics in the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms. This provided a motivation to study the geometry of this group equipped with the $L^2$...

Oct
18
2011

Joint IAS/Princeton University Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Universal Relation Between Exponents in First-Passage Percolation
Sourav Chatterjee
4:30pm|S-101

It has been conjectured in numerous physics papers that in ordinary first-passage percolation on integer lattices, the fluctuation exponent \chi and the wandering exponent \xi are related through the universal relation \chi=2\xi -1, irrespective of...

Oct
18
2011

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Rigidity of 3-Colorings of the d-Dimensional Discrete Torus
Ohad Feldheim
10:30am|S-101

We prove that a uniformly chosen proper coloring of Z_{2n}^d with 3 colors has a very rigid structure when the dimension d is sufficiently high. The coloring takes one color on almost all of either the even or the odd sub-lattice. In particular, one...

Oct
17
2011

Members’ Seminar

How to Construct Topological Invariants via Decompositions and the Symplectic Category
2:00pm|S-101

A Lagrangian correspondence is a Lagrangian submanifold in the product of two symplectic manifolds. This generalizes the notion of a symplectomorphism and was introduced by Weinstein in an attempt to build a symplectic category. In joint work with...

Oct
17
2011

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

On the Number of Hamilton Cycles in Psdueo-Random Graphs
11:15am|S-101

A pseudo-random graph is a graph G resembling a typical random graph of the same edge density. Pseudo-random graphs are expected naturally to share many properties of their random counterparts. In particular, many of their enumerative properties...

Oct
14
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

Entropy zero symplectic diffeomorphisms of S2
John Franks
11:30am|Wolfensohn Hall
This talk will discuss joint work with Michael Handel concerning the dynamic structure of symplectic diffeomorphisms of the two-sphere. The intended application is the study of groups of "fully supported" diffeomorphisms (e.g. analytic) and the...
Oct
14
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

New contact Anosov flows via Foulon surgery
Boris Hasselblatt
10:15am|Wolfensohn Hall
Geodesic flows of Riemannian or Finsler manifolds have been the only known contact Anosov flows. We show that even in dimension 3 the world of contact Anosov flow is vastly larger via a surgery construction near a transverse Legendrian knot that...
Oct
14
2011

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics

Generic existence of an elliptic closed geodesic in the 2-sphere
Gonzalo Contreras
9:00am|Wolfensohn Hall

We prove that there is an open and dense set in the C2 topology of riemannian metrics on the 2-sphere whose geodesic flow has an elliptic closed geodesic.

This result recovers, in a generic sense, a theorem by H. Poincaré 1904 and proves a conjecture...

Oct
13
2011

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

On Real Zeros of Holomorphic Hecke Cusp Forms and Sieving Short Intervals
Kaisa Matomäki
4:30pm|S-101

A. Ghosh and P. Sarnak have recently initiated the study of so-called real zeros of holomorphic Hecke cusp forms, that is zeros on certain geodesic segments on which the cusp form (or a multiple of it) takes real values. In the talk I'll first...