Video Lectures

Sampling from high-dimensional, multimodal distributions is a computationally challenging and fundamental task.  This talk will focus on a family of random instances of such problems described by random quadratic potentials on the hypercube known as...

Weinstein domains and their symplectic invariants have been extensively studied over the last 30 years. Little is known about non-Weinstein Liouville domains, whose first instance is due to McDuff. I will describe two key examples of such domains in...

I will motivate the study of coproducts and describe a new coproduct structure on the symplectic cohomology of Liouville manifolds. Time permitting, I will indicate how to compute it in an example to show that it's not trivial. This is based on my...

I will discuss how the Deligne-Mumford compactification of curves arises from the uncompactified moduli spaces of curves as a result of some algebraic operations related to (pr)operadic structures on the moduli spaces. I will describe how a...

If a set of integers is syndetic (finitely many translates cover the integers), must it contain two integers whose ratio is a square?  No one knows.  In the broader context of the disjointness between additive and multiplicative configurations and...

A powerful technique developed and extended in the past decade in communication complexity is the so-called "lifting theorems."  The idea is to translate the hardness results from "easier" models, e.g., query complexity, polynomial degrees, to the...

AGN feedback is now widely considered to be one of the main drivers in regulating the growth of massive galaxies. In my talk I will describe several efforts in our group to understand the power, reach and impact of AGN feedback processes. We find...

Symmetries of Quantum Field Theories (QFTs), whose fusion does not satisfy a group multiplication law, are generally referred to as non-invertible. I will discuss their connection to generalized gauging and higher fusion categories, providing by...

In this talk, we show a strong XOR lemma for bounded-round two-player randomized communication.  For a function f:X×Y→{0,1}, the n-fold XOR function f^⊕n:X^n×Y^n→{0,1} maps n input pairs (x_1,...,x_n), (y_1,...,y_n) to the XOR of the n output bits f...

Motivated by holographic duality and the Ryu-Takyanagi formula, we ask the question, “What quantum problem are Einstein’s equations solving?” Answering this question amounts to dissecting or “deconstructing” AdS/CFT to identify the quantum...