Previous Conferences & Workshops

May
25
2010

2010 Women and Mathematics

The p-adic tree and the smooth mod p representation of GL(2,Qp)
Rachel Ollivier
9:15am|Simonyi Hall 101

Advanced Course Lecture

May
24
2010

Geometry and Materials Seminar

Conic Sections, Lorentz Covariance, and Smectic Liquid Crystals
Randy Kamien
3:30pm|S-101

Focal conic domains are typically the "smoking gun" by which smectic liquid crystalline phases are identified. The geometry of the equally-spaced smectic layers is highly generic but, at the same time, difficult to work with. We have developed an...

May
24
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Subsampling Mathematical Relaxations and Average-case Complexity
Boaz Barak
11:15am|S-101

We consider the following two questions: 1) Is the MAX-CUT problem hard on random geometric graphs of the type considered by Feige and Schechtman (2002)? 2) Is the value of a mathematical relaxation such as semi- definite programming (SDP) for a...