Previous Conferences & Workshops

Sep
21
2010

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

Extended Scaling Relations for Weak-Universal Models
2:30pm|S-101

I will introduce some example of models of Statistical Mechanics that are called 'weak-universal' and I will discuss the role of the extended scaling relations for the critical indexes. Finally I will mention some results and some works in progress...

Sep
21
2010

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

New Computations of the Riemann Zeta Function
2:00pm|S-101

I'll describe joint work (in progress) with Ghaith Hiary on implementing and running Hiary's O(t^1/3) algorithm for computing the zeta function and give some highlights of recent computations.

Sep
21
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Invariance Principles in Theoretical Computer Science
10:30am|S-101

In this talk I will insult your intelligence by showing a non-original proof of the Central Limit Theorem, with not-particularly-good error bounds. However, the proof is very simple and flexible, allowing generalizations to multidimensional and...

Sep
20
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Dependent Random Choice and Approximate Sidorenko's Conjecture
Benny Sudakov
11:15am|S-101

A beautiful conjecture of Erd\H{o}s-Simonovits and Sidorenko states that if $H$ is a bipartite graph, then the random graph with edge density $p$ has in expectation asymptotically the minimum number of copies of $H$ over all graphs of the same order...

Sep
20
2010

Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms

12:00am

 

During the 2010-2011 academic year, Richard Taylor of Harvard University was the School's Distinguished Visiting Professor. He led a program on Galois Representations and Automorphic Forms.

The program embraced all aspects of the conjectural...