Previous Conferences & Workshops

May
01
2008

Special Seminar

Equivariant Cohomology of Laumon's Quasiflags Spaces and the Quantum Calogero-Moser Hamiltonian
Andrei Negut
2:00pm|S-101

We will introduce certain operators A(m) on the equivariant cohomology ring of the Laumon quasiflags spaces M_d . The character of A(m) will be equal to the generating function Z(m) of the integrals of the Chern polynomial of the tangent bundle of...

Apr
29
2008

Algebro-Geometric Derived Categories and Applications

Categorification of quantum groups and Floer theory
Hao Zheng
2:00pm|S-101

This talk is concerned with categorification of quantum Kac-Moody algebras and their integrable representations. First, I show how to fulfill the task by using sheaf theory. Then I will argue that the constructions could be well understood and...

Apr
29
2008

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Optimal Monotone Encodings
Rani Hod
10:30am|S-101

Moran, Naor and Segev have asked what is the minimal r = r(n, k) for which there exists an (n,k)-monotone encoding of length r , i.e., a monotone injective function from subsets of size up to k of {1, 2,...,n} to r bits. Monotone encodings are...

Apr
28
2008

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Security Under Key-Dependent Inputs
Shai Halevi
11:15am|S-101

In this work we re-visit the question of building cryptographic primitives that remain secure even when queried on inputs that depend on the secret key. This was investigated by Black, Rogaway, and Shrimpton in the context of randomized encryption...

Apr
23
2008

Analysis Seminar

A Hardy Field Extension of Szemeredi's Theorem
2:00pm|S-101

In 1975 Szemeredi proved that every subset of the integers with positive density contains arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. Bergelson and Leibman showed in 1996 that the common difference of the arithmetic progression can be a square, a cube...