Previous Conferences & Workshops

Dec
15
2023

Joint IAS/Princeton/Montreal/Paris/Tel-Aviv Symplectic Geometry Zoominar

Symplectic Embeddings of Rational Homology Balls into Projective Space
John Etnyre
9:15am|Remote Access

I will discuss how to build small symplectic caps for contact manifolds as a step in building small closed symplectic 4-manifolds. As an application of the construction, I will give explicit handlebody descriptions of symplectic embeddings of...

Dec
14
2023

Joint PU/IAS Number Theory

The Hodge and Tate Conjectures and Weight One Forms
Kartik Prasanna
4:30pm|*Princeton University, Fine 214*

The Tate conjecture predicts that in many instances, Langlands functoriality should be given by algebraic cycle classes. In previous joint work with Ichino, we showed that the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence for cohomological modular forms on GL(2)...

Dec
13
2023

Mathematical Conversations

How to do Intersection Theory?
6:00pm|Birch Garden, Simons Hall

The purpose of this talk is to ask a single question: what is the correct definition of intersection theory on varieties? Join me, as we travel through space and time from the ancient origins of enumerative geometry, through Fulton-MacPherson's work...

Dec
13
2023

Special Year Seminar

Moduli Stacks of $p$-adic Shtukas and Integral Models of Shimura Varieties
2:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The notion of $p$-adic shtukas are introduced by Scholze in his Berkeley lectures on $p$-adic geometry. They are closely related to $p$-divisible groups when their ``legs" are bounded by some minuscule cocharacter. But compared to $p$-divisible...

Dec
11
2023

Joint IAS/Princeton Arithmetic Geometry Seminar

Spin Structures on Number Fields
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 314

In topology, the choice of a spin structure on an oriented surface gives a quadratic refinement of the intersection form on mod 2 homology. There is a similar story about 3-manifolds. I will report on joint work (in progress) with Artane Siad where...

Dec
11
2023

Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Clarke Duality and Pseudoholomorphic Planes
Oliver Edtmair
12:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I'll explain joint work in progress with Abbondandolo and Kang concerning the Clarke dual action functional of convex domains and pseudoholomorphic planes. In dimension 4, I'll explain applications to the knot types of periodic Reeb orbits.

Dec
11
2023

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Online Omniprediction
Sumegha Garg
11:15am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

A recent line of work has shown a surprising connection between multicalibration, a multi-group fairness notion, and omniprediction, a learning paradigm that provides simultaneous loss minimization guarantees for a large family of loss functions...

Dec
08
2023

Analysis and Mathematical Physics

The Influence of Edges in First-Passage Percolation on Z^d
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

We study the probability that a geodesic passes through a prescribed edge in first-passage percolation on Z^d. Benjamini, Kalai and Schramm conjectured that this probability tends to zero as the length of the geodesic tends to infinity, as long as...

Dec
08
2023

Condensed Learning Seminar

Solid Quasi-Coherent Sheaves
Hanlin Cai
2:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 314

We will globalize the notion of solid modules to an arbitrary scheme/discrete adic space.