Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
22
2010

Members’ Seminar

Explicit Automorphic Forms for the Rational Function Field, and Their Galois Representations
2:00pm|S-101

In this talk, we will give explicit examples of Langlands correspondence for reductive groups over the rational function field $F=k(t)$ . Fixing appropriate local ramifications, it is sometimes possible to write down explicit Hecke-eigenforms using...

Mar
22
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Product Rules in Semidefinite Programming
Rajat Mittal
11:15am|S-101

Semidefinite programming bounds are widely used in combinatorial optimization, quantum computing and complexity theory. The first semidefinite programming bound to gain fame is the so-called theta number developed by Lov\'asz to compute the Shannon...

Mar
18
2010

Joint Biology/Mathematics Seminar

Images of Life: Exploring Plant Development with Visual Models and Simulations
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
4:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Recent imaging techniques for acquiring and processing microscopic data, combined with computational models and simulations, are leading to a mechanistic understanding of the development of patterns and forms in plants. This presentation will focus...