Previous Conferences & Workshops

Feb
12
2026

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory

Kudla's Modularity Conjecture
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Kudla and Millson proved in the 80's that the generating series of special cycles in orthogonal and unitary Shimura varieties are modular forms and a well-established conjecture of Kudla asks about extensions to toroidal compactifications. In this...

Feb
12
2026

Special Year Research Seminar

Log-Noetherian Functions
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

I'll talk about the o-minimal structures R_LN and R_{LN,exp} where one has an effective form of the finiteness property of o-minimality. Unlike the more classical structure of Pfaffian function, R_{LN,exp} contains the period integrals for aribtrary...

Feb
11
2026

Mathematical Conversations

Lost in a Rough Flow
6:00pm|Simons Hall Dilworth Room

A Lipschitz velocity field gives a reassuring picture of particle motion: each starting point traces a single, well-defined trajectory. But many velocity fields arising in geometry, kinetic theory, and fluid dynamics are far rougher, and then the...

Feb
10
2026

Joint IAS/PU Groups and Dynamics Seminar

Homogeneous Structures in Smooth Dynamics
Alex Eskin
4:30pm|Simonyi 101

In recent years it has become possible to import some ideas and methods from homogeneous dynamics to the general smooth dynamics setting. I will discuss some results and open problems in this area.  

Feb
10
2026

Analysis and Mathematical Physics

Linear Stability of Shrinking Ricci Solitons and First Eigenvalue Estimates
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Ricci solitons, introduced by R. Hamilton in the mid-80s, are self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow and natural generalizations of Einstein manifolds. Shrinking Ricci solitons, in particular,  model Type I singularities of the Ricci flow and...

Feb
10
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

A Complexity Lower Bound on Algebra Isomorphisms
Jeongwan Haah
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Two vector spaces of the same finite dimension are related by a linear isomorphism; that’s how the dimension is defined. Similarly, two simple subalgebras over complex numbers that are closed under conjugate transpose are related by a unitary...

Feb
09
2026

Joint IAS/PU Arithmetic Geometry

Hodge Theory and Representations of Real Groups
Dougal Davis
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In a seminal paper from 2011, Wilfried Schmid and Kari Vilonen made a bold proposal that apparently intractable questions in the representation theory of real reductive groups could be resolved with the help of natural Hodge structures coming from...

Feb
09
2026

Members' Colloquium

The P vs. NP Problem
1:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The P vs. NP problem was formulated about 50 years ago, and was chosen to be one of the seven Clay millenium problems 25 years ago. In this period our understanding of the depth, breadth and impact of the problem has changed dramatically. I plan to...

Feb
09
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Upper and Lower Bounds for the Linear Ordering Principle
Ilya Volkovich
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

The Linear Ordering Principle (LOP) is a total search problem that generalizes the task of finding the minimum element of a given order to settings in which the order need not be total. Building on this, Korten and Pitassi (FOCS 2024) introduced the...

Feb
06
2026

Learning Seminar on Geometric Representation Theory

Representation Theoretic Background
Yuta Nakayama
2:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We briefly review combinatorics and algebraic representation of reductive groups: root systems, Weyl groups and (extended) affine Weyl groups, weight spaces, and classification of irreducible representations in terms of highest weights. We define...