Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
05
2009

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

A "Relative" Langlands Program and Periods of Automorhic Forms
4:30pm|Fine Hall -- 214

Motivated by the relative trace formula of Jacquet and experience on period integrals of automorphic forms, we take the first steps towards formulating a "relative" Langlands program, i.e. a set of conjectures on H-distinguished representations of a...

Mar
04
2009

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Controlled Concentration and Long time Behavior of the Critical Mass Keller-Segel Equation.
Eric Carlen
11:15am|S-101

The Keller-Segal equation exhibits a competition between diffusion and effects leading to concentration, and depending on whether the total mass is above or below a critical value, one or the other wins. We examine the long time behavior for...

Mar
03
2009

Geometric PDE Seminar

Asymptotics for Solutions to the $\sigma_k$-Yamabe Equation near Isolated Singularity
3:30pm|S-101

This talk is based on joint work with YanYan Li and Eduardo Teixeira. Some geometric problems in conformal geometry lead naturally to the study of singular solutions to certain PDEs that describe "canonical" conformal metrics. A good example is the...

Mar
03
2009

Geometric PDE Seminar

The Minimal-Mass Blow-Up Solutions of the Mass-Critical gKdV
Shuaglin Shao
2:00pm|S-101

Conditional on the scattering conjecture of the mass-critical nonlinear Schrodinger equation in spatial dimension one, we show that there exists a blow-up solution to the mass-critical generalized Korteweg de Vries equation (gKdV) with the minimal...

Mar
02
2009

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Finding Sparse Cuts Locally Using Evolving Sets
Yuval Peres
11:15am|S-101

A local graph partitioning algorithm finds a set of vertices with small conductance (i.e. a sparse cut) by adaptively exploring part of a large graph $G$, starting from a specified vertex. For the algorithm to be local, its complexity must be...