Previous Conferences & Workshops

We will discuss the geometry of equilibrium surfaces for anisotropic surface energies. In particular, the shape of solutions of free boundary problems will be discussed when the total energy includes wetting energy and anisotropic line tension...

The motivating open question for this talk is to find for a given prime p all local Z_p-algebras which can occur as the deformation ring of some linear representation over F_p of some finite group G. We will show for every p that not all of them are...

In classical or quantum systems with time scales widely separated by a small slowness parameter, the fast system is driven by the slow and reacts back on it. The asymptotics of the driven fast motion has been much studied, but understanding the...

We will briefly review the construction of the quantum sigma model with target a Torus adapting the work of Kapustin and Orlov (hep-th/0010293v2) to the Hamiltonian setup. This allows us to set up mirror-symmetry for tori entirely within the vertex...

In this talk I shall sketch a proof of the following result: on a closed configuration space M, the Euler-Lagrange system associated to any time-periodic Tonelli Lagrangian function L : R/Z x TM --> R admits infinitely many periodic solutions. More...

A locally decodable code (LDC) is an error correcting code that allows for probabilistic decoding of a single message bit by reading a corrupted encoding in a small number of locations. Until recently, the only LDC constructions known where based on...

Perfectly dry foams coarsen by the diffusion of gas between bubbles according to laws proved by von Neumann in 2d and by MacPherson and Srolovitz in 3d. The remarkable feature in 2d is that a bubble grows or shrinks at a rate that does not depend on...

*It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest. Each participant in a competitive economy is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no...