Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
16
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Planar Convexity, Infinite Perfect Graphs and Lipschitz Continuity
10:30am|S-101

Infinite continuous graphs emerge naturally in the geometric analysis of closed planar sets which cannot be presented as countable union of convex sets. The classification of such graphs leads in turn to properties of large classes of real functions...

Nov
15
2010

Members’ Seminar

Configuration Spaces of Hard Discs in a Box
2:00pm|S-101

The "hard discs" model of matter has been studied intensely in statistical mechanics and theoretical chemistry for decades. From computer simulations it appears that there is a solid--liquid phase transition once the relative area of the discs is...

Nov
15
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Fractional Perfect Matchings in Hypergraphs
Andrzej Rucinski
11:15am|S-101

A perfect matching in a $k$-uniform hypergraph $H= (V, E)$ on $n$ vertices is a set of $n/k$ disjoint edges of $H$, while a fractional perfect matching in $H$ is a function $w:E \to [0,1]$ such that for each $v \in V$ we have $\sum_{e \ni v}w(e) = 1...

Nov
12
2010

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar

A Rigorous Renormalization Group Study of a p-Adic Quantum Field Theory
Abdelmalek Abdesselam
2:00pm|S-101

This talk will be a progress report on an ongoing research project which is joint work with Ajay Chandra and Gianluca Guadagni and which concerns a p-adic analog of the Brydges-Mitter-Scoppola phi-4 model with fractional Laplacian in 3 dimensions...

Nov
11
2010

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Periods of Special Cycles and Derivatives of L-Series
Shou-Wu Zhang
4:30pm|Fine Hall -- 214

In this talk, I will state some conjectures and examples concerning the central derivatives of automorphic L-series in terms of heights of special cycles on Shimura varieties.

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