Previous Conferences & Workshops

Feb
26
2007

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Hardness Amplification for Errorless Heuristics
11:15am|S-101

We say a problem is tractable on average if it can be solved on a "good" fraction of instances by an efficient algorithm. To make this definition precise, we need to make two choices: First, what is a "good" fraction of instances - is it 1%, 51%, 99...

Feb
22
2007

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

On the Computation of p-adic Height Pairings on Jacobians of hyperelliptic Curves
4:30pm|S-101

p-adic height pairings are analogues of the real height pairings that show up for example in the Birch-Swinnerton Dyer conjectures on special values of L-functions of Abelian varieties. The p-adic pairings show up when one tries to formulate p-adic...

Feb
22
2007

Motivic Cohomology

Arithmetic Cohomology and Special Values of Zeta-Functions (after Geisser)
11:00am|S-101

Geisser gives conjectured formulas for special values of zeta-functions of varieties over finite fields in terms of Euler characteristics of arithmetic cohomology (an improved version of Weil-etale cohomology). He then proves these formulas under...

Feb
21
2007

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Full Regularity for the Dissipative Quasi-Geostrophic Equations
2:00pm|S-101

We will present some recent developments in the quasi-geostrophic equations. We show that local solutions to critical and super-critical dissipative quasi-geostrophic equations have higher regularity, although one gets lower derivative in the...

Feb
20
2007

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Algebraic Property Testing - Part II
10:30am|S-101

A Property P of functions is said to be locally testable if there exists a probabilistic algorithm that makes few (constant) queries for the value of f and accepts those satisfying P while rejecting functions that are far from any function...

Feb
19
2007

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Unbalanced Expanders and Randomness Extractors from Parvaresh-Vardy Codes
11:15am|S-101

We give an improved explicit construction of highly unbalanced bipartite expander graphs with expansion arbitrarily close to the degree (which is polylogarithmic in the number of vertices). Both the degree and the number of right-hand vertices are...