Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
08
2010

Members’ Seminar

Global Perturbations of Hamiltonian Dynamical System
2:00pm|S-101

In an autonomous Hamiltonian dynamical system the dynamics evolves on an energy hypersurface by preservation of energy. Thus the energy hypersurface is foliated by the flow. This is no longer true if the system is perturbed. It is a challenging...

Mar
08
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks
Michael Kearns
11:15am|S-101

For four years now, we have been conducting "medium-scale" experiments in how human subjects behave in strategic and economic settings mediated by an underlying network structure. We have explored a wide range of networks inspired by generative...

Mar
05
2010

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar

Strongly Correlated Phases in Rapidly Rotating Bose Gases
Robert Seiringer
4:00pm|S-101

We consider a system of trapped spinless bosons interacting with a repulsive potential and subject to rotation. In the limit of rapid rotation and small scattering length, we show that the ground state energy converges to that of a simplified model...

Mar
04
2010

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Geometric Overconvergent Modular Forms
Vincent Pilloni
4:30pm|Fine Hall -- 214

We will give a geometric definition of the notion of overconvergent modular form of any p-adic weight. As a consequence, we re-obtain Coleman's theory of p-adic families of eigenforms and the eigencurve of Coleman and Mazur without using the...

Mar
04
2010

Analytic and Geometric Number Theory Seminar

One Parameter Families of Elliptic Curves with Maximal Galois Representations
A. C. Cojocaru
2:00pm|S-101

Let E be an elliptic curve over Q and let Q(E[n]) be its n-th division field. In 1972, Serre showed that if E is without complex multiplication, then the Galois group of Q(E[n])/Q is as large as possible, that is, GL_2(Z/n Z), for all integers n...

Mar
03
2010

Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems

Topological Robotics, Topological Complexity, and Euclidean Embeddings of Real Projective Spaces
Peter Landweber
5:00pm|S-101

This will be a report on topics related to topological complexity (TC), introduced by Michael Farber in 2003 as a numerical measure of the complexity of robot motion planning problems. TC of real projective space P^n (lines through the origin in...

Mar
03
2010

Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar

Floer Homology and Loop Space Topology II
4:00pm|West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Floer homology generated by periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems is, in general, not a classical homology theory. However, on phase spaces of cotangent bundle type for systems equivalent to the geodesic flow, all known structures in loop space...

Mar
03
2010

Analytic and Geometric Number Theory Mini-Course

The Parameterization of Algebraic Structures and Applications I
2:00pm|West Bldg. Lecture Hall

We describe how various fundamental algebraic structures (involving, for example, number fields, class groups, and algebraic curves) can be parameterized via the orbits of appropriate group representations. By developing techniques to count such...