Previous Conferences & Workshops

We analyze volume-preserving actions of product groups on Riemannian manifolds. Under a natural spectral irreducibility assumption, we prove the following dichotomy: Either the action is measurably isometric, in which case there are at most two...

I will survey a number of settings withing theoretical computer sceince in which certain computations are abstracted by "black boxes", namely devices for which we can observe the input-output behavior, but not the actual "guts" of the computation. I...

A fake projective space is a smooth complex projective algebraic variety which is uniformized by the unit ball in $\mathbb C^n$ and whose Betti numbers are the same as that of $\mathbb P^n_{\mathbb{C}}$. The first example of a fake projective plane...

In this talk, we will sketch the theory of simultaneous optimization for concave profit functions, and point out connections to fairness. More precisely, suppose we would like to simultaneously approximate all symmetric utility functions over a...

In this lecture, I will describe some results from the thesis of Jarad Schofer, (Maryland, 2005), which provide a generalization of the Gross-Zagier factorization of singular moduli or arbitrary Borcherds forms. After a review of the construction of...

We introduce a new algorithm and a new analysis technique that is applicable to a variety of online optimization scenarios, including regret minimization for Lipschitz regret functions, universal portfolio management, online convex optimization and...

Expository talk on work in progress. M.Chas and D.Sullivan introduced a product on the homology of the free loop spaace of a compact, oriented manifold M that has also been studied by R.L.Cohen, V.Godin, J.D.S.Jones, J.Klein, and others. If M is...

We discuss the problem of deriving Fourier's law of heat transport in a Hamiltonian system of coupled anharmonic oscillators subject to boundary noise and derive it in a closure approximation of the stationary state of the system.