Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
20
2010

Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms Seminar

Splitting of Iwasawa Modules and Leopoldt Conjecture
Jean-Pierre Wintenberger
2:15pm|S-101

Let p be an odd prime number and let F be a totally real field. Let F_cyc be the cyclotomic extension of F generated by the roots of unity of order a power of p . From the maximal abelian extension of F_cyc which is unramified (resp. unramified...

Oct
19
2010

Geometry and Cell Complexes Seminar

Invariants of Graphs, Their Associated Clique Complexes and Right-Angled Coxeter Groups
2:00pm|S-101

Associated to any simplicial graph there is a right-angled Coxeter group. Invariants of the Coxeter group such as its growth series or its weighted L^2 Betti numbers can be computed from the graph's clique complex (i.e., its flag complex).

Oct
19
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Rank Bounds for Design Matrices with Applications to Combinatorial Geometry and Locally Correctable Codes
10:30am|S-101

A (q,k,t)-design matrix is an m x n matrix whose pattern of zeros/non-zeros satisfies the following design-like condition: each row has at most q non-zeros, each column has at least k non-zeros and the supports of every two columns intersect in at...

Oct
18
2010

Members’ Seminar

Metaphors in Systolic Geometry
2:00pm|S-101

The systolic inequality says that if we take any metric on an n-dimensional torus with volume 1, then we can find a non-contractible curve in the torus with length at most C(n). A remarkable feature of the inequality is how general it is: it holds...

Oct
18
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

A Unified Framework for Testing Linear-Invariant Properties
Arnab Bhattacharyya
11:15am|S-101

In a sequence of recent papers, Sudan and coauthors have investigated the relation between testability of properties of Boolean functions and the invariance of the properties with respect to transformations of the domain. Linear-invariance is...

Oct
14
2010

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Even Galois Representations and the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture
Frank Calegari
4:30pm|S-101

Fontaine and Mazur have a remarkable conjecture that predicts which (p-adic) Galois representations arise from geometry. In the special case of two dimensional representations with distinct Hodge-Tate weights, they further conjecture that these...

Oct
14
2010

Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms Seminar

The Fundamental Curve of p-Adic Hodge Theory
2:15pm|S-101

Let $\overline K$ be an algebraic closure of a $p$-adic field $K$. We construct a separated noetherian regular scheme $X$ (nonalgebraic) equipped with an action of $G_K=\mathrm{Gal}(\overline{K}/K)$. We have $H^0(X, O_X) = Q_p$ and $H_1(X, O_X) = 0$...