Previous Conferences & Workshops

Oct
04
2006

Complex Algebraic Geometry

Minimal Model Program in Dimensions 4 and 5
Valery Alexeev
11:00am|S-101

Main conjectures of (log) MMP are: A) existence of flips, B) termination of flips, and C) finite generation, all of which were settled by 1992 in dim 3 by Mori, Shokurov, Kawamata, Koll\'ar et al. In dim 4, A was done by 2005 due to Shokurov and...

Oct
03
2006

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

A Randomized Polynomial-Time Simplex Algorithm for Linear Programming
Jonathan Kelner
10:30am|S-101

In this talk, I shall present the first randomized polynomial-time simplex algorithm for linear programming. Like the other known polynomial-time algorithms for linear programming, its running time depends polynomially on the number of bits used to...

Oct
02
2006

Members’ Seminar

On the p-Adic Spectra of Some Hecke Operators
Lisa Clay
4:00pm|S-101

I'll first summarize my conjecture about the p-adic slopes of modular forms for GL_2 (both classical and overconvergent). This conjecture is based upon some structures in the geometry of the special fibers of elliptic modular curves at p. In an...