Previous Conferences & Workshops

A locally decodable code (LDC) is an error correcting code that allows for probabilistic decoding of a single message bit by reading a corrupted encoding in a small number of locations. Until recently, the only LDC constructions known where based on...

Perfectly dry foams coarsen by the diffusion of gas between bubbles according to laws proved by von Neumann in 2d and by MacPherson and Srolovitz in 3d. The remarkable feature in 2d is that a bubble grows or shrinks at a rate that does not depend on...

*It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest. Each participant in a competitive economy is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no...

To an abelian variety over a number field one can associate an abelian variety to each prime ideal p of good reduction by reducing the variety modulo p . The geometry of these reductions need not resemble the geometry of the original abelian variety...

Mathematics has contributed immensely to the development of secure cryptosystems and protocols. Yet our networks are terribly insecure, and we are constantly threatened with the prospect of imminent doom. Furthermore, even though such warnings have...

This is an exposition of work on Artin's Conjecture on the zeros of p-adic forms.A variety of lines of attack are described ,going back to 1945.However there is particular emphasis on recent developments concerning quartic forms on the one hand ,and...

We will explain how to construct a symplectic Lefschetz fibration with explicit regular fiber and vanishing spheres which models a complexified Morse function on a cotangent bundle. We will sketch at the end how this leads to a definition of...

Intensive study throughout the last three decades has yielded a rigorous understanding of the spectral-gap of the Glauber dynamics for the Ising model on $Z^2$ everywhere except at criticality. While the critical behavior of the Ising model has long...