Previous Conferences & Workshops

We will survey results (partly joint with Kleiner, and with Kleiner and Naor) on possibly fractal metric spaces which in a suitable sense have many rectifiable curves. We will try to cover: differentiable structure, a bi-Lipschitz nonembedding...

In this talk I will recall the statement of the Friedlander conjecture on the cohomology of a reductive group G and give a short recollection on known results. I will present a new approach which relies on the study of the A^1 homotopy type of the...

The uniformity norms are defined in different contexts in order to distinguish the ``typical'' random functions, from the functions that contain certain structures. A typical random function has small uniformity norms, while a function with a non...

The theory of quantum homology, which originally arose from physics, is currently generating a great deal of interest, due in part to its striking predictions regarding enumerative algebraic geometry. In this talk we will introduce the quantum...

How many edges of the n-dimensional Boolean hypercube can be sliced by a degree-d polynomial surface? This question can be equivalently stated as "What is the maximum average sensitivity of any degree-d polynomial threshold function?" In 1994...

We introduce the term `superconcentration' to describe the phenomenon when a function of a Gaussian random field exhibits a far stronger concentration than predicted by classical concentration of measure. We show that when superconcentration happens...

An interesting new class of modular forms has emerged in the last several years that generalize Ramanujan's mock theta functions. The generalization is based on an observation of of Zwegers who showed that mock theta functions occur as holomorphic...

Is there a common explanation for 2SAT being solvable polynomial time, and Max2SAT being approximable to a 0.91 factor? More generally, it is natural to wonder what characterizes the complexity of exact constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) like...