Previous Conferences & Workshops

The blue phases are remarkable mesophases appearing in highly chiral liquid crystals; they exhibit three-dimensional crystalline orientational order whilst remaining fully fluid. I will survey the development of our understanding of these materials...

In his seminal work, Valiant defined algebraic analogs for the classes P and NP, which are known today as VP and VNP. He also showed that the permanent is VNP-complete (that is, the permanent is in VNP and any problem in VNP is reducible to it). We...

Constraint Satisfaction Problems appear everywhere. The study of their quantum analogues (in which the constraints no longer commute), has become a lively area of study, and various recent results provide interesting insights into quantum physics...

In this talk we discuss certain interrelations between symplectic and convex geometry. No previous knowledge is assumed.

In this short talk I will formulate a functorial desingularization theorem for qe schemes of characteristic zero and explain why this result implies desingularization in other categories including formal schemes and analytic spaces. If time permits...