Previous Conferences & Workshops

Apr
18
2024

Joint PU/IAS Number Theory

Zeta and Multizeta for Function Fields
Dinesh Thakur
4:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

We will describe emerging understanding of the structures related to the arithmetic of Zeta and Multizeta values for function fields through various results and conjectures.

Apr
18
2024

What is...?

What is Wave Turbulence?
Michal Shavit
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access
Apr
17
2024

Mathematical Conversations

Twisted Torus Embeddings
6:00pm|Birch Garden, Simons Hall

Consider a right angled cylinder. Glue the ends together after twisting many times to form a flat torus $C^1$-isometrically embedded in $R^3$. What can we say about the global geometry of this embedding?

Apr
16
2024

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Parallel Repetition for 3-Player XOR Games
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

In a $3$-$\mathsf{XOR}$ game $\mathcal{G}$, the verifier samples a challenge $(x,y,z)\sim \mu$ where $\mu$ is a probability distribution over $\Sigma\times\Gamma\times\Phi$,  and a map $t\colon \Sigma\times\Gamma\times\Phi\to\mathcal{A}$ for a...

Apr
15
2024

Members' Colloquium

Recent Progress on the Problem of Compact Quotients
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The so-called Problem of Compact Quotients asks for which homogeneous spaces G/H there exists a discrete subgroup Gamma of G such that Gamma\G/H is a compact manifold. We will discuss this problem, and describe recent progress on it arising from...

Apr
15
2024

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Graphs, CSPs and Codes
Madhu Sudan
11:00am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

A sparsification of a structure, with respect to a class of queries, produces a compressed representation of the structure while answering every query in the class approximately correctly. The seminal example of sparsification is "graph...

Apr
12
2024

Truth and Beauty: Bombieri's Mathematical Gardens

G-functions ,Q-points, and Unlikely Intersections
Jonathan Pila
4:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I will describe a problem of unlikely intersections in a product of modular curves, tracing the problem itself and the tools for some results through the work of Enrico.