Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
21
2011

Joint IAS/Princeton University Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Hodge Structures in Symplectic Geometry
4:30pm|S-101

I will explain how essential information about the structure of symplectic manifolds is captured by algebraic data, and specifically by the non-commutative (mixed) Hodge structure on the cohomology of the Fukaya category. I will discuss how mirror...

Oct
21
2011

Analysis Seminar

On the Instability for 2D Fluids
3:00pm|S-101

For 2D Euler equation, we prove a double exponential lower bound on the vorticity gradient. We will also discus some further results on the singularity formation for other models.

Oct
20
2011

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Hodge Correlators, Hodge Symmetries, and Rankin-Selberg Integrals
4:30pm|Fine Hall -- 214

Rankin-Selberg integrals, among many other things they do, are the only way to prove that special values $L(f,n)$ of L-functions of weight $k$ modular forms on $GL_2(\mathbb Q)$, $n \geq k$, are periods. They pave the road to Beilinson’s motivic $...

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...