Joint IAS/PU Number Theory

Symplectic Geometry and Quantum Noise

Leonid Polterovich

We discuss a quantum counterpart, in the sense of the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization, of certain constraints on Poisson brackets coming from "hard" symplectic geometry. It turns out that they can be interpreted in terms of the quantum noise of...

For GL(2) over Q_p, the p-adic Langlands correspondence is available in its full glory, and has had astounding applications to Fontaine-Mazur, for instance. In higher rank, not much is known. Breuil and Schneider put forward a conjecture, which...

I will report on some recent work on multiple zeta values. I will sketch the definition of motivic multiple zeta values, which can be viewed as a prototype of a Galois theory for certain transcendental numbers, and then explain how they were used...

Hypergeometric Motives

Fernando Villegas

The families of motives of the title arise from classical one-variable hypergeometric functions. This talk will focus on the calculation of their corresponding L-functions both in theory and in practice. These L-functions provide a fairly wide...