Previous Conferences & Workshops

May
13
2008

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

A Dirac-Type Theorem for 3-Uniform Hypergraphs
10:30am|West Bldg. Lecture Hall

A 3-uniform hypergraph is hamiltonian if for some cyclic ordering of its vertex set, every 3 consecutive vertices form an edge. In 1952 Dirac proved that if the minimum degree in an n-vertex graph is at least n/2 then the graph is hamiltonian. We...

May
12
2008

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Artin Map, Cyclotomic Function Fields, and Folded List-Decodable Codes
11:15am|West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Recently, algebraic codes which achieve the optimal trade-off between rate and (list) error-correction radius were constructed by a careful "folding" of the Reed-Solomon code. The "low-degree'' nature of this folding operation was crucial to the...

May
08
2008

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

The Divisor Matrix, Dirichlet Series and SL(2,Z)
P. Sin
4:30pm|S-101

The divisor matrix is indexed by the natural numbers with (i,j) entry equal to one if i divides j and 0 otherwise. The convolution of a Dirichlet series with the Riemann zeta function corresponds to multiplication of the sequence of coefficients by...

May
07
2008

Algebro-Geometric Derived Categories and Applications

Representations of Rational Cherednik Algebras and Miracles of Science
10:30am|S-101

I will report on a work in progress joint with Andrei Okounkov. We extend the methods developed in an earlier work with Mirkovic and Rumynin on modular representations of semi-simple Lie algebras to representation of symplectic reflection algebras...