Previous Conferences & Workshops

Topological spaces given by either (1) complements of coordinate planes in Euclidean space or (2) spaces of non-overlapping hard-disks in a fixed disk have several features in common. The main results, in joint work with many people, give...

We develop the droplet scaling theory for the low temperature critical behavior of two-dimensional Ising spin glasses. The models with integer bond energies vs. continuously-distributed bond energies are in the same universality class in a regime of...

It is known that the roots of congruences for a fixed irreducible quadratic polynomial are equidistributed. This statement translates to getting cancellation in the corresponding sum of Weyl's sums. In a recent work by W. Duke, J. Friedlander and H...

To a regular algebraic cuspidal representation of GL(2) over a quadratic imaginary field, whose central character is conjugation invariant, Taylor et al. associated a two dimensional Galois representation which is unramified at l different from p...

Iwasawa developed his theory for class groups in towers of cyclotomic fields partly in analogy with Weil's theory of curves over finite fields. In this talk, we present another such conjectural analogy. It seems intertwined with Leopoldt's...

Erdos conjectured that N points in the plane determine at least c N (log N)^{-1/2} different distances. Building on work of Elekes-Sharir, Nets Katz and I showed that the number of distances is at least c N (log N)^{-1} . (Previous estimates had...

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We prove that the Cauchy problem for the Benjamin-Ono-Burgers equation is uniformly globally well-posed in H^1 for all "\epsilon\in [0,1]". Moreover, we show that for any T>0 the solution converges in C([0,T]:H^1) to that of Benjamin-Ono equation as...

Many remarkable questions about prime numbers have natural analogues in the context of elliptic curves. Among them, Artin's primitive root conjecture, the twin prime conjecture, and the Schinzel hypothesis have inspired a broad family of conjectures...

A ``tournament'' is a digraph obtained from a complete graph by directing its edges, and ``colouring'' a tournament means partitioning its vertex set into acyclic subsets (``acyclic'' means the subdigraph induced on the subset has no directed cycles...