Previous Conferences & Workshops

Feb
28
2005

Special Seminar

Undirected Graph Connectivity in Log-Space (SL=L)
4:00pm|S-101

We present a deterministic algorithm for graph connectivity that uses the minimal amount of memory possible, up to a constant factor. Specifically, the algorithm's memory is comparable to that needed to store only a single node of the graph (i.e...

Feb
22
2005

Members’ Seminar

A New Characterization of Sobolev Spaces
3:00pm|S-101

This talk is motivated by some recent work of Bourgain- rezis-Mironescu. A few years ago, they introduced an elementary way of defining the Sobolev spaces $W^{1,p}$ without making any use of derivatives. I will present their definition and some...

Feb
22
2005

Complex Geometry Seminar

Volume Minimization and Comparison for Isotropic Surfaces
Ed Goldstein
2:30pm|Fine Hall 110

We'll start by exhibiting volume-minimizing properties for certain isotropic submanifolds in complex projective spaces via integral geometry. This will lead us to a problem of finding the infimum of areas for isotropic surfaces with a given boundary...

Feb
22
2005

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Quadratic Forms on Graphs
Konstantin Makarychev
10:30am|S-101

We introduce a new graph parameter, called the rothendieck constant of a graph. This parameter is a generalization of the classical Grothendieck constant; and it is equal to an integrality gap of a certain SDP problem, which has various algorithmic...