Seminars Sorted by Series
What is...?
What is Tensor Isomorphism?
1:00pm|Simonyi Classroom (S-114)
Two graphs are isomorphic if they are the same up relabelling
the vertices. Two matrices are equivalent if they are the same up
to elementary row and column operations. Tensor isomorphism
generalises these basic notions in graph theory and linear...
What is... the Chirotropical Grassmannian?
Dario Antolini
1:00pm|Simonyi Classroom (S-114)
The tropical Grassmannian Trop G(2,n) and its positive part are
combinatorial objects revealing fascinating connections between
tropical geometry and particle physics. In particular, they play a
relevant role in the CHY integral formulation of...
Petra Schwer
1:00pm|Simonyi Classroom (S-114)
What is a p-adic zeta function?
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access
In the 1850s, Kummer discovered some striking congruences mod
powers of a prime number p between values of the Riemann zeta
function at negative odd integers. This was part of his
attempt to understand structural aspects of certain
algebraic...
Alex Lubotzky
11:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access
Property (T) was defined by Kazhdan in the 1960s, who used
it to prove two conjectures of Selberg on lattices in high-rank Lie
groups. Shortly after that, Margulis used it to construct
expander graphs.
Property $\tau$ is a baby version of property (T...
What are... Entropy Methods in Combinatorics?
12:45pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access
The Shannon entropy of a discrete random variable quantifies the
number of bits of information conveyed by sampling that variable.
Although originally introduced in the context of information
theory, techniques relying on Shannon entropy have been...
What is... a Non Local Game?
12:45pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access
In the 1930s, Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen devised the "EPR
paradox", which shed light on a peculiar phenomenon in the
mathematical modeling of quantum mechanics: Very far apart
particles can exhibit correlated behaviour, which seemed to suggest
a...
What is... Harmonic Functions on Groups?
12:45pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access
12:45pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access
Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory
There will be no meeting of the group this week.
2:30pm|West Bldg. Lecture Hall
An Introduction to motives
We review the construction of the triangulated categories of
motives over a base scheme (following the method of Morel and
Voevodsky). We then explain quickly the construction of various
operations between these categories as well as some...