Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
26
2010

Special Mathematical Physics Seminar

A Stationary Phase Method for a Class of Nonlinear Equations
Yen Do
4:30pm|S-101

In this talk I will describe a real-variable method to extract long-time asymptotics for solutions of many nonlinear equations (including the Schrodinger and mKdV equations). The method has many resemblances to the classical stationary phase method...

Oct
26
2010

Special Seminar

Nodal Lines of Random Waves
M. Sodin
3:15pm|S-101

In the talk, I will describe recent attempts to understand the mysterious and beautiful geometry of nodal lines of random spherical harmonics and of random plane waves. If time permits, I will also discuss asymptotic statistical topology of other...

Oct
26
2010

Geometry and Cell Complexes Seminar

Toric Arrangements
2:00pm|S-101

The cd-index is a noncommutative polynomial which compactly encodes the flag vector data of a polytope, and more generally, of a regular cell complex. Ehrenborg and Readdy discovered the cd-index has an inherent coalgebraic structure which...

Oct
25
2010

Members’ Seminar

Values of L-Functions and Modular Forms
Chris Skinner
2:00pm|S-101

This will be an introduction to special value formulas for L-functions and especially the uses of modular forms in establishing some of them -- beginning with the values of the Riemann zeta function at negative integers and hopefully arriving at...

Oct
22
2010

Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar

Global Stringy Orbifold Cohomology, K-Theory and de Rham theory with Possible Applications to Landau-Ginzburg Theory
Ralph Kaufmann
4:00pm|S-101
Oct
22
2010

Geometry and Cell Complexes Seminar

Spectral Geometry of Random Graphs
Igor Riven
2:00pm|S-101

we will describe various models of sparse and planar graphs and the associated distributions of eigenvalues (and eigenvalue spacings) which come up. The talk will be light on theorems, and heavy on experimental data.

Oct
21
2010

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Expanding the Scope of Hilbert Irreducibility
Chris Hall
4:30pm|Fine Hall -- 214

If K is the rational function field K=Q(t), then a polynomial f in K[x] can be regarded as a one-parameter family of polynomials. If f is irreducible, then a basic form of Hilbert's irreducibility theorem states that there are infinitely many...

Oct
21
2010

Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms Seminar

Non-abelian Lubin-Tate Theory Modulo $\ell$
2:15pm|S-101

Let p and l be two distinct prime numbers, and fix a positive integer d . I will explain how the F_l-cohomology complex of the Lubin-Tate tower of height d of a p-adic field K realizes mod l versions of both the semi-simple Langlands correspondence...