Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
11
2010

Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms Seminar

Algebraic Cycles on Picarad Moduli Spaces of Abelian Varieties
2:15pm|S-101

Picard moduli spaces parametrize principally polarized abelian varieties with complex multiplication by the ring of integers in an imaginary-quadratic field. The loci where the abelian varieties split off an elliptic curve in a controlled way are...

Nov
10
2010

Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms Seminar

On the Realization of Some Degenerate Automorphic Forms on Certain Griffiths-Schmid Varieties
2:15pm|S-101

Some automorphic forms, despite the fact they are algebraic, do not have any interpretation as cohomology classes on a Shimura variety: therefore nothing is known at present on their expected arithmetic properties. I shall explain how such forms...

Nov
09
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

An Elementary Proof of the Restricted Invertibility Theorem
10:30am|S-101

We give an elementary proof of a generalization of Bourgain and Tzafriri's Restricted Invertibility Theorem, which says roughly that any matrix with columns of unit length and bounded operator norm has a large coordinate subspace on which it is well...

Nov
08
2010

Members’ Seminar

Beauty and Truth in Mathematics; a Tribute to Albert Einstein and Hermann Weyl
Sir Michael Atiyah
2:30pm|S-101
Nov
08
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

The Graph Removal Lemma
Jacob Fox
11:15am|S-101

Let H be a fixed graph with h vertices. The graph removal lemma states that every graph on n vertices with o(n^h) copies of H can be made H-free by removing o(n^2) edges. We give a new proof which avoids Szemeredi's regularity lemma and gives a...

Nov
05
2010

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar

Ground States of the 2D Edwards-Anderson Spin Glass
Michael Damron
2:00pm|S-101

I will discuss the problem of determining the number of infinite-volume ground states in the Edwards-Anderson (nearest neighbor) spin glass model on Z^D for D \geq 2. There are no complete results for this problem even in D=2. I will focus on this...

Nov
04
2010

Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms Seminar

A Satake Isomorphism mod.p
2:15pm|S-101

Let F be a locally compact non-Archimedean field, p its residue characteristic and G a connected reductive algebraic group over F . The classical Satake isomorphism describes the Hecke algebra (over the field of complex numbers) of double classes in...