Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
24
2010

Analytic and Geometric Number Theory Mini-Course

Artin's Conjecture on Zeros of p-Adic Forms
R. Heath-Brown
2:00pm|S-101

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...

Mar
22
2010

Members’ Seminar

Explicit Automorphic Forms for the Rational Function Field, and Their Galois Representations
2:00pm|S-101

In this talk, we will give explicit examples of Langlands correspondence for reductive groups over the rational function field $F=k(t)$ . Fixing appropriate local ramifications, it is sometimes possible to write down explicit Hecke-eigenforms using...

Mar
22
2010

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Product Rules in Semidefinite Programming
Rajat Mittal
11:15am|S-101

Semidefinite programming bounds are widely used in combinatorial optimization, quantum computing and complexity theory. The first semidefinite programming bound to gain fame is the so-called theta number developed by Lov\'asz to compute the Shannon...

Mar
18
2010

Joint Biology/Mathematics Seminar

Images of Life: Exploring Plant Development with Visual Models and Simulations
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
4:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Recent imaging techniques for acquiring and processing microscopic data, combined with computational models and simulations, are leading to a mechanistic understanding of the development of patterns and forms in plants. This presentation will focus...