Video Lectures

Symplectic homology is a very useful tool in symplectic topology, but it can be hard to compute explicitly. We will describe a procedure for computing symplectic homology using counts of pseudo-holomorphic spheres. These counts can sometimes be...

The last decades have seen great advances in our understanding of the history of our universe. I will summarize our current knowledge, describe some of the puzzles that still remain and speculate about future developments in cosmology. Matias...

Tropical geometry gives a new approach to understanding old questions about algebraic curves and their moduli spaces, synthesizing techniques that range from Berkovich spaces to elementary combinatorics. I will discuss an outline of this method...

The Torelli map associates to a genus g curve its Jacobian - a $g$-dimensional principally polarized abelian variety. It turns out, by the works of Mumford and Namikawa in the 1970s (resp. Alexeev and Brunyate in 2010s), that the Torelli map extends...

Given a $k$-dimensional linear subspace, consider the problem of approximating it (with respect to the spectral norm) in terms of another subspace spanned by the indicators of a $k$-partition of the coordinates. This is known as the spectral...

The data of a compact Lie group $G$ and a degree 4 cohomology class on its classifying space leads to invariants in low-dimensional topology as well as important representations of the infinite dimensional group of loops in $G$. Previous work with...

We introduce an abstract model of computation corresponding to an experiment in which identical, non-interacting bosons are sent through a non-adaptive linear circuit before being measured. We show that despite the very limited nature of the model...

We compute the mod 2 homology of the space of paths in $\mathbb CP^n$ with endpoints in $\mathbb RP^n$, and its algebra structure with respect to the Pontryagin-Chas-Sullivan product. Our method combines Morse theory with geometry. Joint work with...

The formal degree conjecture relates the formal degree of an irreducible square-integrable representation of a reductive group over a local field to the special value of the adjoint gamma-factor of its L-parameter. We prove the formal degree...