Previous Conferences & Workshops

Sponsored by the Minerva Research Foundation

Abstract: Projection theory asks how the size of a set in $R^n$—often measured by Hausdorff...

We use Teichmüller theory to construct a new geometric model for the classifying space of the mapping class group of a three-dimensional handlebody. Two consequences are obtained: (i) Chan-Galatius-Payne have shown that the homology of Kontsevich's...

Sponsored by the Minerva Research Foundation

Abstract: Projection theory asks how the size of a set in $R^n$—often measured by Hausdorff...

Note: This talk will involve quantum computing, cryptography, and representation theory, but no background in any of these will be necessary to understand it. I'll introduce everything from the basics.

Aaronson, Atia, and Susskind (2020) established...

Jacobi's theta function $\Theta(q) := 1 + 2q + 2q^4 + 2q^9 + \cdots $, and more generally the theta functions associated to positive-definite quadratic forms, have the property that they are modular forms of half-integral weight. The usual proof of...

The Pila–Zannier strategy has proved to be a particularly fruitful approach: first applied to reprove the Manin–Mumford conjecture, it was later exploited decisively in proofs of the André–Oort conjecture. Crucially relying on a recent counting...

Rank 1 transformations are a long studied, flexible class of measure preserving transformations. King proved a variety of deep results about rank 1 rank transformations including: A) A rank 1 transformation’s centralizer is the weak closure of its...