Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
23
2010

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Special Gamma, Zeta, Multizeta Values and Anderson t-Motives
4:30pm|Fine Hall -- 322

We will describe how the "special value theory" in function field arithmetic is an interesting mixture of very strong theorems determining all algebraic relations in some cases, emerging partial conjectural pictures in some cases, and quite wild...

Nov
23
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Counting Pattern Avoiding Permutations Via Integral Operators
10:30am|S-101

A permutation pi=(pi_{1},...,pi_{n}) is consecutive 123-avoiding if there is no sequence of the form pi_i pi_{i+1} pi_{i+2}. More generally, for S a collection of permutations on m+1 elements, this definition extends to define consecutive S...

Nov
22
2010

Members’ Seminar

Modularity of Galois Representations
2:00pm|S-101

In this expository talk, I will outline a plausible story of how the study of congruences between modular forms of Serre and Swinnerton-Dyer, which was inspired by Ramanujan's celebrated congruences for his tau-function, led to the formulation of...

Nov
22
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Combinatorial Theorems in Random Sets
David Conlon
11:15am|S-101

The famous theorem of Szemerédi says that for any natural number k and any a > 0 there exists n such that if N >= n then any subset A of the set [N] ={1,2,...,N} of size |A| >= a N contains an arithmetic progression of length k. We consider the...

Nov
19
2010

Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar

Implied Existence for 3-D Reeb Dynamics
Al Momin
4:00pm|S-101

Using a version of cylindrical contact homology on the complement of some Reeb orbits in a 3-dimensional contact manifold we will deduce that the existence of closed Reeb orbits with certain topological/dynamical properties implies the existence of...

Nov
19
2010

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar

Perturbation Theory for Band Matrices
2:00pm|S-101

Band matrices are a class of random operators with rows and columns indexed by elements of the d-dimensional lattice, and random entries H(u, v) which are small when the distance between u and v on the lattice is larger than W. We shall discuss the...

Nov
18
2010

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Endoscopic Transfer of Depth-Zero Suprcuspidal L-Packets
4:30pm|S-101

In a recent paper, DeBacker and Reeder have constructed a piece of the local Langlands correspondence for pure inner forms of unramified p-adic groups and have shown that the corresponding L-packets are stable. In this talk we are going to discuss...

Nov
18
2010

Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms Seminar

Potential Automorphy for Compatible Systems of l-Adic Galois Representations
David Geraghty
2:15pm|S-101

I will describe a joint work with Barnet-Lamb, Gee and Taylor where we establish a potential automorphy result for compatible systems of Galois representations over totally real and CM fields. This is deduced from a potential automorphy result for...

Nov
17
2010

Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms Seminar

A New Approach to the Local Langlands Correspondence for GL_n Over p-Adic Fields
Peter Scholze
2:15pm|S-101

We give a new local characterization of the Local Langlands Correspondence, using deformation spaces of p-divisible groups, and show its existence by a comparison with the cohomology of some Shimura varieties. This reproves results of Harris-Taylor...