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2012 Women and Mathematics


Date:Monday, May 14
Topic:http://www.ias.edu/wam/2012/schedule
Time/Room:12:00pm - 6:00pm

Date:Tuesday, May 15
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Wednesday, May 16
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Thursday, May 17
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Friday, May 18
Time/Room:9:00am - 10:00am

Date:Saturday, May 19
Time/Room:9:30am - 3:30pm

Date:Monday, May 21
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Tuesday, May 22
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Wednesday, May 23
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Thursday, May 24
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Friday, May 25
Time/Room:9:30am - 12:30pm

 

Analysis Seminar


Date:Friday, October 21, 2011
Topic:On the Instability for 2D Fluids
Speaker:Serguei Denissov, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Topic:On the Rigidity of Black Holes
Speaker:Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 3:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Topic:The Defocusing Cubic Nonlinear Wave Equation in the Energy-Supercritical Regime
Speaker:Aynur Bulut, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 10, 2011
Topic:Around the Davenport-Heilbronn Function
Speaker:Enrico Bombieri, Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 17, 2011
Topic:Tangent Cones to Calibrated Currents
Speaker:Constante Bellettini, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Topic:The Energy-Critical Defocusing NLS in Periodic Settings
Speaker:Alexandru Ionescu, Princeton University
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 3:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Topic:On the Ergodic Properties of Square-Free Numbers
Speaker:Francesco Cellarosi, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 3:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Topic:Two-Point Problem for the Ideal Incompressible Fluid
Note: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Speaker:Alexander Shnirelman, Concordia University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 3:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 14
Topic:On Zaremba's Conjecture on Continued Fractions
Speaker:Jean Bourgain, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 3:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 21
Topic:Reducibility for the Quasi-Periodic Liner Schrodinger and Wave Equations
Speaker:Lars Hakan Eliasson, University of Paris VI; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 3:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 28
Topic:A Centre-Stable Manifold for the Energy-Critical Wave Equation in $R^3$ in the Symmetric Setting
Speaker:Marius Beceanu, Rutgers, The State Unviersity of New Jersey
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, March 2
Topic:Global Existence of Surface Waves
Speaker:Jalal Shatah, Courant Institute, NYU
Time/Room: 3:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 6
Topic:Various Approaches to Semiclassical Quantum Dynamics
Speaker:George A. Hagedorn, Virginia Tech
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 20
Topic:Nodal Lines of Maass Forms and Critical Percolation
Speaker:Peter Sarnak, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 27
Topic:Formation of Singularities in Fluid Interfaces
Speaker:Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 17
Topic:Sub-Weyl Subconvexity and Short p-Adic Exponential Sums
Speaker:Djordje Milicevic
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

 

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I


Date:Monday, February 13
Topic:High-Confidence Predictions under Adversarial Uncertainty
Speaker:Andrew Drucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

 

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I


Date:Monday, September 26, 2011
Topic:Nonnegative k-Sums, Fractional Covers, and Probability of Small Deviations
Speaker:Benny Sudakov, University of California, Los Angeles
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 3, 2011
Topic:Mechanism Design With Set-Theoretic Beliefs
Speaker:Jing Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 10, 2011
Topic:A Little Advice Can Be Very Helpful
Speaker:Arkadev Chattopadhyay, University of Toronto
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 17, 2011
Topic:On the Number of Hamilton Cycles in Psdueo-Random Graphs
Speaker:Michael Krivelevich, Tel Aviv University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 24, 2011
Speaker:No Seminar (FOCS 2011 Meeting)
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 31, 2011
Topic:Mantel's Theorem for Random Graphs
Speaker:Jeff Kahn, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 7, 2011
Topic:How Bad is Forming Your Own Opinion
Speaker:Sigal Oren, Cornell University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 14, 2011
Topic:Polynomial Time Algorithms for Multi-Type Branching Processes and Stochastic Context-Free Grammars
Speaker:Mihalis Yannakakis, Columbia University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 21, 2011
Topic:An Isoperimetric Inequality for the Hamming Cube and Integrality Gaps in Bounded-Degree Graphs
Speaker:Siavosh Benabbas, University of Toronto
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 28, 2011
Topic:Entropy-Based Bounds on Dimension Reduction in L_1
Speaker:Oded Regev, CNRS-ENS-Paris and Tel Aviv University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 5, 2011
Topic:Towards Coding for Maximum Errors in Interactive Communication
Speaker:Mark Braverman, Princeton University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 12, 2011
Topic:Monotone Unification Problems
Speaker:Pavel Hrubes, University of Calgary
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, January 23
Topic:An Optimal Lower Bound for File Maintenance
Speaker:Michael Saks, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, January 30
Topic:Nearly Optimal Deterministic Algorithms Via M-Ellipsoids
Speaker:Santosh Vempala, Georgia Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 6
Topic:Graphlets: A Spectral Perspective for Graph Limits
Speaker:Fan Chung, University of California at San Diego
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 20
Topic:Lasserre Hierarchy, Higher Eigenvalues, and Graph Partitioning
Speaker:Venkat Guruswami, Carnegie Mellon University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 27
Topic:An Additive Combinatorics Approach to the Long-Rank Conjecture in Communication Complexity
Speaker:Noga Zewi, Technion
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 5
Topic:The Complexity of Distributions
Speaker:Emanuele Viola, Northeastern University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 12
Topic:Computational Aspects in the Braid Group and Applications to Cryptography
Speaker:Mina Teicher, Bar-Ilan University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Monday, March 19
Topic:Optimal Estimators for Entropy, Support Size, and Related Properties
Speaker:Gregory Valiant, University of California, Berkeley
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 26
Topic:Hardness of Randomized Truthful Mechanisms for Combinatorial Auctions
Speaker:Jan Vondrak, IBM Almaden
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 2
Topic:Rational Proofs
Speaker:Pablo Azar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 16
Topic:Near-Linear Time Approximation Algorithm for Balanced Separator
Speaker:Sushant Sachdeva, Princeton University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 23
Topic:Computational Entropy
Speaker:Salil Vadhan, Harvard University; Visiting Researcher Microsoft Research SVC; Visiting Scholar Stanford University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 30
Topic:Randomized Greedy Algorithms for the Maximum Matching Problem with New Analysis
Speaker:Mario Szegedy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, May 7
Topic:Topology of Norms Defined by Systems of Linear forms
Speaker:Pooya Hatami, University of Chicago
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, May 14
Topic:Are Lattice Based Cryptosystems Secure Enough?
Speaker:Nisheeth Vishnoi, Microsoft Research, Bangalore
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, May 21
Speaker:No seminar today (STOC Conference)
Time/Room:11:15am - 12:15pm

 

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II


Date:Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Topic:Existence of Small Families of t-wise Independent Permutations and t-Designs Via Local Limit Theorems
Speaker:Shachar Lovett, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Topic:Tight Lower Bounds for 2-query LCCs Over Finite fields
Speaker:Shubhangi Saraf, Microsoft Research; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Topic:Limit Theories and Higher Order Fourier Analysis
Speaker:Balazs Szegedy, University of Toronto; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Topic:Limit Theories and Higher Order Fourier Analysis
Note: (Continued from October 4)
Speaker:Balazs Szegedy, University of Toronto; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Topic:Rigidity of 3-Colorings of the d-Dimensional Discrete Torus
Speaker:Ohad Feldheim, Tel Aviv University
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Speaker:No Seminar (FOCS 2011 Meeting)
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Note: http://intractability.princeton.edu/blog/2011/09/princeton-quantum-computing-day/
Speaker:No Seminar (CCI Quantum Computation Workshop)
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Topic:Vertex Sparsification: An Introduction, Connections and Applications
Speaker:Ankur Moitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Topic:Vertex Sparsification: An Introduction, Connections and Applications
Note: (This is a continuation of the November 8, 2011 talk.)
Speaker:Ankur Moitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathemtics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Topic:Shorter Long Code and Applications to Unique Games
Speaker:Raghu Meka, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Topic:Shorter Long Code and Applications to Unique Games
Note: (a continuation of the November 22, 2011 talk)
Speaker:Raghu Meka, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Topic:Can the Continuum Problem be Solved?
Speaker:Menachem Magidor, Hebrew University
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Topic:Time-Space Tradeoffs in Resolution: Superpolynomial Lower Bounds for Superlinear Space
Speaker:Christopher Beck, Princeton University
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, January 24
Topic:A Tutorial on the Likely Worst-Case Complexities of NP-Complete Problems
Speaker:Russell Impagliazzo, University of California, San Diego; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, January 31
Topic:A Survey of Lower Bounds for the Resolution Proof System
Speaker:Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 7
Topic:Randomness Extraction: A Survey
Speaker:David Zuckerman, University of Texas at Austin; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 14
Topic:On the Colored Tverberg Problem
Speaker:Benjamin Matschke, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 21
Topic:Finding Needles in Exponential Haystacks
Speaker:Joel Spencer, Courant Institute, NYU
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 28
Topic:Complexity, Approximability, and Mechanism Design
Speaker:Christos Papadimitriou, University of California at Berkeley
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 6
Topic:Applications of FT-Mollification
Speaker:Jelani Nelson, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 13
Topic:Applications of FT-Mollification II
Note: (This is a continuation of the March 6 talk.)
Speaker:Jelani Nelson, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Tuesday, March 20
Topic:The Quasi-Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa Theorem of Sanders
Speaker:Shachar Lovett, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 27
Topic:Higher-Order Cheeger Inequalities
Speaker:Luca Trevisan, Stanford University
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 3
Topic:Better Pseudorandom Generators from Milder Pseudorandom Restrictions
Speaker:Parikshit Gopalan, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 10
Topic:List-Decoding Multiplicity Codes
Speaker:Swastik Kopparty, Rutgers University
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 17
Topic:Nondeterministic Property Testing
Speaker:Laszlo Lovasz, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 24
Topic:Pseudorandom Generators for Read-Once ACC^0
Speaker:Srikanth Srinivasan, DIMACS
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, May 1
Topic:Lower Bounds for Matching Vector Codes
Speaker:Abhishek Bhowmick, University of Texas at Austin
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, May 8
Topic:Pseudorandomness from Shrinkage
Speaker:Raghu Meka, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, May 15
Topic:From Irreducible Representations to Locally Decodable Codes
Speaker:Klim Efremenko, Tel Aviv University
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Tuesday, May 22
Speaker:No seminar today (STOC Conference)
Time/Room:10:30am - 12:30pm

 

Conference on Graphs and Analysis


Date:Monday, June 4
Time/Room: 10:00am - 5:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Tuesday, June 5
Time/Room: 10:00am - 5:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Wednesday, June 6
Time/Room: 10:00am - 5:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Thursday, June 7
Time/Room: 10:00am - 5:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Friday, June 8
Time/Room: 10:00am - 5:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

 

Geometry Seminar


Date:Friday, September 30, 2011
Topic:Multiplicities and the Equivariant Index
Speaker:Jochen Bruening, Humboldt University
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 28, 2011
Topic:C^0 Limits of Hamiltonian Paths and Spectral Invariants
Speaker:Sobhan Seyfaddini, University of California at Berkeley
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 11, 2011
Topic:Bilinearized Legendrian Contact Homology
Speaker:Frederic Bourgeois, Universite Libre Bruxelles
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 18, 2011
Topic:How to Construct 3- and 4-Manifold Invariants via Pseudoholomorphic Quilts
Speaker:Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 25, 2011
Speaker:There will be no meeting of the seminar this week.
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, December 2, 2011
Topic:On Seifert Fibered 4-Manifolds
Speaker:Weimin Chen, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, March 2
Topic:Stein Structures: Existence and Flexibility
Speaker:Kai Cieliebak, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/S-101

 

Hermann Weyl Lectures


Date:Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Topic:Chow Rings, Decomposition of the Diagonal and the Topology of Families
Note: Lecture 1: Introduction to Chow Groups and Coniveau
Speaker:Claire Voisin, CNRS, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu, Paris
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Topic:Chow Rings, Decomposition of the Diagonal and the Topology of Families
Note: Lecture 2: On the Generalized Bloch and Hodge Conjectures for Complete Intersections
Speaker:Claire Voisin, CNRS, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu, Paris
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 3, 2011
Topic:Chow Rings, Decomposition of the Diagonal and the Topology of Families
Note: Lecture 3: Decomposition of the Small Diagonal and the Topology of Families
Speaker:Claire Voisin, CNRS, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu, Paris
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 4, 2011
Topic:Chow Rings, Decomposition of the Diagonal and the Topology of Families
Note: Lecture 4: Integral Coefficients; Application to Birational Invariants
Speaker:Claire Voisin, CNRS, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu, Paris
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/S-101

 

Introduction to Polyfolds


Date:Thursday, March 8
Topic:Introduction to Polyfolds
Speaker:Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 8
Topic:A Simple Example of an M-Polyfold Relevant to Morse Theory
Speaker:Peter Albers, University of Munster; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

 

Joint IAS-PU Number Theory Seminar


Date:Thursday, October 6, 2011
Topic:Curves With Many Symmetries
Speaker:Noam Elkies, Harvard University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, October 13, 2011
Topic:On Real Zeros of Holomorphic Hecke Cusp Forms and Sieving Short Intervals
Speaker:Kaisa Matomäki, University of Turku, Finland
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, October 20, 2011
Topic:Hodge Correlators, Hodge Symmetries, and Rankin-Selberg Integrals
Speaker:Alexander Goncharov, Yale University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, October 27, 2011
Topic:A New Formulation of the Gross-Zagier Formula
Speaker:Xinyi Yuan, Princeton University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 10, 2011
Topic:Subtle Invariants and Traverso's Conjectures for p-Divisible Groups
Speaker:Adrian Vasiu, Binghamton University; Member, School of Mathemtics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, November 17, 2011
Topic:Arithmetic Inner Product Formula
Speaker:Yifeng Liu, Columbia University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 24, 2011
Topic:
Speaker:There will be no meeting of the seminar this week.
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, December 1, 2011
Topic:A Second MainTerm for Counting Cubic Fields, and Biases in Arithmetic Progressions
Speaker:Takashi Taniguchi, Princeton University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, December 8, 2011
Topic:Weights in a Serre-Type Conjecture for U(3)
Speaker:Florian Herzig, University of Toronto
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, December 15, 2011
Topic:Spectral Factors in Endoscopic Transfer
Speaker:Diana Shelstad, Rutgers, The State Unviersity of New Jersey
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, January 5
Topic:Heights, Discriminants and Conductors
Speaker:Rafael von Kanel, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, January 12
Topic:On How the First Term of an Arithmetic Progression Can Influence the Distribution of an Arithmetic Sequence
Speaker:Daniel Fiorilli, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, January 19
Topic:Poisson Statistics and the Value Distribution of the Epstein Zeta Function
Speaker:Anders Sodergren, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 9
Topic:Sup-norms, Whittaker Periods and Hypergeometric Sums
Speaker:Nicolas Templier, Princeton University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, February 16
Topic:Arithmetic Fake Compact Hermitian Symmetric Spaces
Speaker:Gopal Prasad, University of Michigan
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 23
Topic:Modularity Lifting in Non-Regular Weight
Speaker:David Geraghty, Princeton University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, March 1
Topic:The Tamagawa Number Formula via Chiral Homology
Speaker:Dennis Gaitsgory, Harvard University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 8
Topic:Mod p Points on Shimura Varieties
Speaker:Mark Kisin, Harvard University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, March 15
Topic:Hypergeometric Motives
Speaker:Fernando Villegas, University Texas at Austin
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Thursday, March 29
Topic:Modularity in Weight (1,1,...,1) via Overconvergent Hilbert Modular Forms
Speaker:Payman Kassaei, King's College London
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 5
Topic:Constructible Functions, Inegrability, and Harmonic Analysis on p-Adic Groups
Speaker:Julia Gordon, University of British Columbia
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, April 12
Topic:Local Models of Shimura Varieties
Speaker:Xinwen Zhu, Harvard University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, April 19
Topic:Multiple Zeta Values
Speaker:Francis Brown, CNRS/Institut de Math. de Jussieu, Paris
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 26
Topic:Deligne-Lusztig Theory for Unipotent Groups and the Local Langlands Correspondence
Speaker:Mitya Boyarchenko, University of Michigan
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, May 3
Topic:Eisenstein Series on Exceptional Groups, Graviton Scattering Amplitudes, and the Unitary Dual
Speaker:Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, May 10
Topic:Some Canonical Constructions in Arithmetic Invariant Theory
Speaker:Jack Thorne, Harvard University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214

 

Joint IAS-PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar


Date:Friday, September 30, 2011
Topic:On Singularities With Rational Homology Disk Smoothings
Speaker:Andras Stipsicz, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 7, 2011
Topic:Qualitative Properties of Gromov-Witten Invariants
Speaker:Aleksey Zinger, Stony Brook University; Member, School of Mathemtics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- Room 322

Date:Friday, October 21, 2011
Topic:Hodge Structures in Symplectic Geometry
Speaker:Tony Pantev, University of Pennsylvania
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 28, 2011
Topic:Stochastic Twist Maps and Symplectic Diffusions
Note: (Time Change for This Day Only)
Speaker:Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, University of California at Berkeley
Time/Room: 4:15pm - 5:15pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 4, 2011
Speaker:There will be no meeting of the seminar this week
Time/Room:4:30pm - 5:30pm

Date:Friday, November 11, 2011
Topic:Orientability and Open Gromov-Witten Invariants
Speaker:Penka Georgieva, Princeton University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/West Building Lecture Hall

Date:Friday, November 18, 2011
Topic:Morse Theory and Invariants of (almost) Symplectic Manifolds
Speaker:Tara Holm, Cornell University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- Room 322

Date:Friday, December 2, 2011
Topic:Ramussen's s-Invariant via Instantons and Other Remarks on Khovanov Homology as Seen by Instanton Floer Homology
Speaker:Tom Mrowka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, December 9, 2011
Topic:Bihermitian Metrics and Poisson Deformations
Speaker:Nigel Hitchin, Oxford University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- Room 322

Date:Friday, December 16, 2011
Topic:Bubbles and Onis
Speaker:Urs Frauenfelder, Seoul National University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, January 27
Topic:Symplectic Inverse Spectral Theory in the Semiclassical Regime for Toric Systems . . . and Beyond
Speaker:San Vu Ngoc, University of Rennes, France
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, February 17
Topic:Geodesics for The Weil-Petersson Metric
Speaker:Tudor Ratiu, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Switzerland
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, April 13
Topic:A Mathematical Theory of Quantum Sheaf Cohomology
Speaker:Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

 

Joint Princeton Mathematical Physics Seminar


Date:Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Topic:Absence of Mobility Edge for the Anderson Random Potential on Tree Graphs at Weak Disorder
Speaker:Simone Warzel, Technical University, Munich
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Princeton University, A06 Jadwin Hall

Date:Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Topic:The Universal Relation Between Exponents in First-Passage Percolation
Speaker:Sourav Chatterjee, Courant Institute,NYU
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Topic:Fractal Iso-Contours of Passive Scalar in Smooth Random Flows
Speaker:Marija Vucelja, Courant Institute, NYU
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/A-06 Jadwin Hall, PU

Date:Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Topic:Characteristic Polynomials of the Hermitian Wigner and Sample Covariance Matrices
Speaker:Tatyana Shcherbina, Institute for Low Temperature Physics, Kharkov
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Topic:A Simplified Proof of the Relation Between Scaling Exponents in First-Passage Percolation
Speaker:Michael Damron, Princeton University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/A-06 Jadwin Hall, PU

Date:Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Topic:QED in Half Space
Speaker:Robert Schrader, Freie Universit\"at Berlin
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Topic:Random Natural Frequencies, Active Dynamics and Coherence Stability in Populations of Coupled Rotators
Speaker:Giambattista Giacomin, Université Paris Diderot
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Topic:Macdonald Processes and Some Applications in Probability and Integrable Systems
Speaker:Ivan Corwin, Microsoft Research & Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

 

Marston Morse Lectures


Date:Monday, March 26
Topic:Dynamics on the Moduli Spaces of Curves, I
Speaker:Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 28
Topic:Dynamics on the Moduli Spaces of Curves, II
Speaker:Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, March 30
Topic:Dynamics on the Moduli Spaces of Curves, III
Speaker:Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

 

Mathematical Conversations


Date:Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Topic:Simple Geodesics on Surfaces
Speaker:Nancy Hingston, The College of New Jersey; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Topic:On the Square Peg Problem
Speaker:Benjamin Matschke, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Speaker:There will be no meeting of the group this week
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Speaker:There will be no meeting of the group this week
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Topic:A Famous Actress, A Bad Boy of Music, and the Development of Spread Spectrum Communications
Speaker:Mark Goresky, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Speaker:There will be no meeting of the group this week.
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Topic:(In)stability of Elliptic Fixed Points
Speaker:Abed Bounemoura, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Speaker:There will be no meeting of the group this week.
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Topic:Circuit Lower Bounds--a Combinatorial Approach to the P vs. NP Question
Speaker:Shachar Lovett, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, January 25
Topic:From Algebraic Geometry to Neural Computations and Back -- A Personal Perspective
Speaker:Mina Teicher, Bar-Ilan University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, February 8
Topic:Euler, Riemann and Chebyshev
Speaker:Daniel Fiorilli, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, February 15
Topic:ADE Dynkin Diagrams in Mathematics
Speaker:Anthony Licata, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, February 22
Topic:Positivity, Causality and Convexity
Speaker:Anna Wienhard, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, March 7
Topic:What is a Polyfold and Why Would One Care?
Speaker:Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, April 4
Topic:Some New Inner Models for Set Theory
Speaker:Juliette Kennedy, Member, School of Historical Studies
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, October 10
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, October 24
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, October 31
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, November 7
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Friday, November 16
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, November 21
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Friday, November 30
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, December 5
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, December 12
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

 

Mathematics Seminar Talks


Date:Wednesday, March 7
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

 

MATHEMATICS SEMINARS


Date:Monday, March 12
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Tuesday, March 13
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Wednesday, March 14
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Thursday, March 15
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Friday, March 16
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

 

Mathematics Seminars


Date:Tuesday, May 15
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Wednesday, May 16
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Thursday, May 17
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Friday, May 18
Time/Room: 10:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Monday, May 21
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Tuesday, May 22
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Wednesday, May 23
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Thursday, May 24
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Friday, May 25
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

 

Members Seminar


Date:Monday, September 26, 2011
Topic:First Steps in Symplectic Dynamics
Note: (Change of Time for This Week Only)
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 3, 2011
Note: (No Meeting This Week in Lieu of Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members)
Time/Room:2:00pm - 3:00pm

Date:Monday, October 10, 2011
Note: (No Meeting This Week in Lieu of Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics)
Time/Room:2:00pm - 3:00pm

Date:Monday, October 17, 2011
Topic:How to Construct Topological Invariants via Decompositions and the Symplectic Category
Speaker:Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 24, 2011
Topic:The Mathematical Challenge of Large Networks
Speaker:László Lovász, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 31, 2011
Speaker:No Seminar Today
Time/Room:2:00pm - 3:00pm

Date:Monday, November 7, 2011
Topic:Strong and Weak Epsilon Nets and Their Applications
Speaker:Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University; Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 14, 2011
Topic:Hilbert's Seventh Problem -- A Kaleidoscope
Speaker:Gisbert Wuestholz, ETH-Zentrum, Zurich; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 21, 2011
Topic:Bordered Floer Homology
Speaker:Peter Ozsvath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 28, 2011
Topic:Loop Products and Dynamics
Speaker:Nancy Hingston, The College of New Jersey; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 5, 2011
Topic:Symplectic Integration Algorithms
Speaker:Scott Tremaine, School of Natural Sciences
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 12, 2011
Topic:Towards Symplectic Algebraic Topology
Speaker:Alexandru Oancea, Universite de Strasbourg; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, January 23
Topic:The Role of Symmetry in Phase Transitions
Speaker:Tom Spencer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, January 30
Topic:Linear Equations in Primes and Nilpotent Groups
Speaker:Tamar Ziegler, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 6
Topic:Toward Enumerative Symplectic Topology
Speaker:Aleksey Zinger, SUNY, Stony Brook; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 13
Topic:Topology vs Combinatorics of Line Arrangements
Speaker:Mina Teicher, Bar-Ilan University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 20
Speaker:No seminar today -- IAS closed for Presidents' Day
Time/Room:2:00pm - 3:00pm

Date:Monday, February 27
Topic:Weakly Commensurable Arithmetic Groups and Isospectral Locally Symmetric Spaces
Speaker:Gopal Prasad, University of Michigan; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 5
Topic:Local Correction of Codes and Euclidean Incidence Geometry
Speaker:Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 12
Speaker:No seminar today in lieu of Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics II
Time/Room:2:00pm - 3:00pm

Date:Monday, March 19
Topic:Polynomial Methods in Learning and Statistics
Speaker:Ankur Moitra, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 2
Topic:The Heisenberg Algebra in Symplectic Algebraic Geometry
Speaker:Anthony Licata, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 9
Topic:Computations of Heegaard Floer Homologies
Speaker:Andras Stipsicz, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

 

Mini-Course on Polyfolds


Date:Wednesday, April 4
Topic:Polyfolds I
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:00am - 11:00am/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 4
Topic:Polyfolds II
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 4
Topic:Polyfolds III
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 4
Topic:Polyfolds IV
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 5
Topic:Polyfolds V
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:00am - 11:00am/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 5
Topic:Polyfolds VI
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 5
Topic:Polyfolds VII
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 5
Topic:Polyfolds VIII
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/S-101

 

Miniworkshop on Kuranishi Structures and Gromov-Witten Moduli Spaces


Date:Tuesday, March 6
Topic:Kuranishi Structures and Gromov-Witten Moduli Spaces, Part I
Speaker:Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:00am - 11:00am/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Tuesday, March 6
Topic:Kuranishi Structures and Gromov-Witten Moduli Spaces, Part II
Speaker:Dusa McDuff, Columbia University
Time/Room: 11:30am - 12:30pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Wednesday, March 7
Topic:Kuranishi Structures and Gromov-Witten Moduli Spaces, Part III
Speaker:Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 9:30am - 10:30am/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Wednesday, March 7
Topic:Kuranishi Structures and Gromov-Witten Moduli Spaces, Part IV
Speaker:Dusa McDuff, Columbia University
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

 

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members


Date:Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Topic:Stability and Instability of Near-Integrable Hamiltonian Systems
Speaker:Abed Bounemoura, IMPA; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 2:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Topic:Pseudo-Holomorphic Curves and Approximations of Zero Entropy Hamiltonian Systems by Periodic Ones
Speaker:Barney Bramham, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:15pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Topic:Concentration Compactness Method for Global Well-Posedness for the Energy-Supercritical Nonlinear Wave Equation
Speaker:Aynur Bulut, The University of Texas at Austin; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Topic:Limit Theorems for Theta Sums and Applications
Speaker:Francesco Cellarosi, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Topic:Legendrian Invariants in Rational Homology Spheres
Speaker:Joan Licata, Stanford University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:15pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Topic:Three Knot-Theoretic Perspectives on Algebra
Speaker:Zsuzsanna Dancso, University of Toronto; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 2:15pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Topic:Residue Classes Containing an Unexpected Number of Primes
Speaker:Daniel Fiorilli, University of Montreal; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:15pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Topic:Categorification in Representation Theory
Speaker:Anthony Licata, Stanford University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Topic:Global Properties of Reeb Dynamics and Pseudo-Holomorphic Curves
Speaker:Umberto Hryniewicz, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Member, School of Mathemtics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Topic:Hofer's Geometry of Hamiltonian Diffeomorphisms on Surfaces
Speaker:Michael Khanevsky, ETH Zurich; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:15pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, September 23, 2011
Topic:Mean Curvature Flow on Three-Dimensional Cell Structures
Speaker:Emanuel Lazar, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 2:15pm/S-101

Date:Friday, September 23, 2011
Topic:Floer Theory, Dynamics and Hyperkahler Geometry
Speaker:Sonja Hohloch, Stanford University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:15pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, September 23, 2011
Topic:Some Algebraic-Combinatoric Problems
Speaker:Shachar Lovett, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Friday, September 23, 2011
Topic:Equivariant Topology and Discrete Geometry
Speaker:Benjamin Matschke, Technical University of Berlin; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:45pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 3, 2011
Topic:Properties of Random Group Elements
Speaker:Chen Meiri, Hebrew University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 2:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 3, 2011
Topic:Limit Theorems in Pseudorandomness
Speaker:Raghu Meka, The University of Texas at Austin; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:15pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 3, 2011
Topic:The (Counter-Intuitive) Geometry of Cut and Flow Polytopes
Speaker:Ankur Moitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 3, 2011
Topic:Symplectic and Spectral Theory of Integrable Systems
Speaker:Alvaro Pelayo, Washington University in St. Louis; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:45pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Topic:Incidence Geometry and Connections to Theoretical Computer Science
Speaker:Shubhangi Saraf, Microsoft Research; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 2:15pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Topic:Lower Bounds on the Lyapunov Exponent of 1D Schrodinger Operators Using Crude Estimates on the Density of States
Speaker:Mira Shamis, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:15pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Topic:Sphere Packings, Poisson Statistics and the Epstein Zeta Function
Speaker:Anders Sodergren, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Topic:Heegaard Floer Homology and Legendrian Knots
Speaker:Vera Vertesi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Topic:The Density of States for Random Band Matrices
Speaker:Alexander Sodin, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:15pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 7, 2011
Topic:Differential Cohomology
Speaker:Andrew Stimpson, Stony Brook University; Member, School of Mathemtics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 2:15pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 7, 2011
Topic:Diophantine Geometry
Speaker:Rafael von Kenel, ETH Zurich; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:15pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 7, 2011
Topic:Radiation Field for Einstein Vacuum Equations
Speaker:Fang Wang, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 3:45pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 7, 2011
Topic:Some Connections Between Homotopy Theory and Logic
Speaker:Michael Warren, Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:45pm - 4:00pm/S-101

 

SOM Cocktail party


Date:Tuesday, October 9
Time/Room:5:30pm - 7:30pm

 

Special Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Lecture


Date:Thursday, February 23
Topic:Zero Knowledge Proofs and Nuclear Disarmament
Speaker:Boaz Barak, Microsoft Research New England
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 23
Topic:Building Expanders in Three Steps
Speaker:Amir Yehudayoff, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 20
Topic:Graph Convergence, Parameter Testing and Group Actions
Speaker:Miklos Abert, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

 

Special Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar Lecture


Date:Monday, April 9
Topic:Random Local Algorithms
Speaker:Endre Csoka, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

 

Special Informal Mathematical Physics Discussion


Date:Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

 

Special Lecture


Date:Friday, March 16
Topic:Ramanujan Graphs and Siran Graphs, Applications to Classical and Quantum Coding Theory
Speaker:Jean-Pierre Tillich, INRIA, France
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/S-101

 

Special Number Theory Seminar


Date:Friday, March 30
Topic:Cup Products in Automorphic Cohomology
Speaker:Matthew Kerr, Washington University in St. Louis
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

 

Symplectic Dynamics Seminar


Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Topic:Problems of Ideal Incompressible Fluids
Speaker:Alexander Shnirelman, Concordia University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Topic:Shadowing and Diffusion in Hamiltonian Systems
Speaker:Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Topic:On the Long-Time Behavior of 2-D Flows
Speaker:Alexander Shnirelman, Concordia University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Topic:Riemannian Exponential Map on the Group of Volume-Preserving Diffeomorphisms
Speaker:Gerard Misiolek, University of Notre Dame; Member, School of Mathemtics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Topic:Braids and Flows
Speaker:Alexander Shnirelman, Concordia University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Topic:Arnold Diffusion by Variational Methods
Speaker:John Mather, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathemaatics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Topic:Arnold Diffusion by Variational Methods, II
Speaker:John Mather, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Topic:Hofer's Geometry of the Space of Diameters
Speaker:Michael Khanevsky, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Topic:Arnold Diffusion by Variational Methods III
Speaker:John Mather, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Topic:Twist Maps
Speaker:John Mather, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Topic:Twist Maps II
Speaker:John Mather, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Topic:Twist Maps III
Note: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Speaker:John Mather, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Topic:Actions of Higher Rank Abelian Groups: Measure Rigitidy, Arithmeticity and Topology
Speaker:Anatole Katok, Pennsylvania State University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Topic:Actions of Higher Rank Abelian Groups: Measure Rigitidy, Arithmeticity and Topology (continued)
Speaker:Anatole Katok, Pennsylvania State University
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, January 25
Topic:On Conjugacy of Convex Billiards
Speaker:Vadim Kaloshin, Pennsylvania State University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, January 25
Topic:Symplectic Structures and Dynamics on Vortex Membranes
Speaker:Boris Khesin, University of Toronto; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 8
Topic:Geometric and Numerical Approaches to KAM Theory
Speaker:Rafael de la Llave, Georgia Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 8
Topic:How Large is the Shadow of a Symplectic Ball?
Speaker:Alberto Abbondandolo, University of Pisa, Italy
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 15
Topic:The Inner Equation for Generalized Standard Maps
Speaker:Pau Martin, Universitat Poliecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 29
Topic:Stein Structures: Existence and Flexibility
Speaker:Kai Cieliebak, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 1
Topic:Stein Structures: Existence and Flexibility
Speaker:Kai Cieliebak, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 7
Topic:Arnold Diffusion via Normally Hyperbolic Invariant Cylinders and Mather Variational Method, Part I
Speaker:Vadim Kaloshin, Pennsylvania State University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Wednesday, March 21
Topic:Arnold Diffusion via Normally Hyperbolic Invariant Cylinders and Mather Variational Method, Part II
Speaker:Ke Zhang, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 28
Topic:Closed Reeb Orbits on the Sphere and Symplectically Degenerate Maxima
Speaker:Viktor Ginzburg, University of California,Santa Cruz
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

 

Working Group on Algebraic Number Theory


Date:Thursday, September 29, 2011
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, October 13, 2011
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 17, 2011
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 24, 2011
Speaker:There will be no meeting of the group this week.
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, December 1, 2011
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, December 15, 2011
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 16
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 23
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, March 1
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 8
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, March 15
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Thursday, March 29
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 5
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, April 12
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, April 19
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 26
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, May 3
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

 

Working Group on Symplectic Dynamics


Date:Friday, November 4, 2011
Topic:To Be Announced
Speaker:John Mather, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 4, 2011
Topic:Aubry Mather Theory From a Topological Viewpoint
Speaker:Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Topic:Persistence of Invariant Submanifolds
Speaker:Abed Bounemoura, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Topic:Morse Theory and n-Categories
Speaker:Sonja Hohloch, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Speaker:There will be no meeting of the group this week.
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Topic:Periodic Bounce Orbits and Some Speculations
Speaker:Peter Albers, Purdue University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Topic:Aubry Mather Theory From a Topological Viewpoint
Speaker:Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, January 18
Topic:Nonregularizability of the Big Bang Singularity Using Blow Up
Speaker:Ed Belbruno, Courant Institute, New York University
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 15
Topic:Topological Hamiltonian Dynamics and Area-Preserving Homeomorphism Group
Speaker:Yong-Geun Oh, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 22
Topic:On Translated Points of Contactomorphisms
Speaker:Sheila Margherita Sandon, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 29
Topic:A Simple Proof of the Conley Conjecture for Hamiltonian Diffeomorphisms C^1-Close to the Identity
Speaker:Marco Mazzucchelli, Pennsylvania State University
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 21
Topic:An Instability Mechanism Along the Mean Motion Resonances in the Restricted Three Body Problem
Speaker:Marcel Guardia, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

 

Workng Group on Arnold Diffusion


Date:Thursday, March 22
Topic:Arnold Diffusion via Normally Hyperbolic Invariant Cylinders and Mather Variational Method, Part III
Speaker:Vadim Kaloshin, Pennsylvania State University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:00am - 10:50am/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 22
Topic:Arnold Diffusion via Normally Hyperbolic Invariant Cylinders and Mather Variational Method, Part IV
Speaker:Ke Zhang, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:00pm/S-101

 

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics


Date:Monday, October 10, 2011
Time/Room: 8:00am - 7:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Time/Room: 8:00am - 7:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Time/Room: 8:00am - 7:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Thursday, October 13, 2011
Time/Room: 8:00am - 7:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Friday, October 14, 2011
Time/Room: 8:00am - 12:30pm/Wolfensohn Hall

 

Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics II


Date:Monday, March 12
Note: http://www.math.ias.edu/wsd2
Time/Room: 10:15am - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 13
Note: http://www.math.ias.edu/wsd2
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 14
Note: http://www.math.ias.edu/wsd2
Time/Room: 9:00am - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 15
Note: http://www.math.ias.edu/wsd2
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, March 16
Note: http://www.math.ias.edu/wsd2
Time/Room: 9:00am - 2:30pm/S-101

 

Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems


Date:Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Topic:Seeing and Sculpting Defects in Liquid Crystals with the Thom Construction
Speaker:Bryan Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/Rutgers University, HillCenter, Room 705

Date:Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Topic:Categorification in Topology and Algebra
Speaker:Radmila Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/Rutgers University, Hill Center, Room 705

Date:Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Topic:Robust Algorithms for Piecewise Constant Vector Field Topology
Speaker:Andrzej Szymczak, Colorado School of Mines
Time/Room: 5:00pm - 6:00pm/Rutgers University, Hill Center, Room 705

Date:Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Topic:Morse Theory and Stochastic Dynamics
Speaker:Jorge Kurchan, ESPCI
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/Univ. of Pennsylvania, David Rittenhouse Lab., A6

Date:Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Topic:The Dynamics of Granular Materials
Speaker:Miro Kramar, Rutgers University
Time/Room: 3:00pm - 4:00pm/Univ. of Pennsylvania, David Rittenhouse Lab., A6

Date:Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Topic:A Topological Representation of Planning with Uncertainty
Speaker:Michael Erdmann, Carnegie Mellon University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Univ. of Pennsylvania, David Rittenhouse Lab., A6

Date:Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Topic:Why Things Don't Fall Down, How Tensegrities Work
Speaker:Robert Connelly, Cornell University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/Princeton Univ., Jadwin Hall, Prin. Center for Theoretical Sciences

Date:Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Topic:Colloidal Crystals on Curved Surfaces: Pleats and Fractionalization
Speaker:William Irvine, University of Chicago
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/Princeton Univ., Jadwin Hall, Prin. Center for Theoretical Sciences

Date:Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Topic:From Sheets to Shapes: Using Topological Defects to Blueprint Curvature
Speaker:Carl Modes, Rockefeller University
Time/Room: 5:00pm - 6:00pm/Princeton Univ., Jadwin Hall, Prin. Center for Theoretical Sciences

Date:Wednesday, February 1
Topic:Probabilisitc Perspective on Topological Data Analysis
Speaker:Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/Rutgers University, Hill Center, Room 705

Date:Wednesday, February 1
Topic:The Taming olf the Screw: or How I Learned to Stop Worryhing and Love Elliptic Functions
Speaker:Elisabetta Matsumoto, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/Rutgers University, Hill Center, Room 705

Date:Wednesday, February 1
Topic:Topological Methods in Discrete Geometry
Speaker:Benjamin Matschke, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study
Time/Room: 5:00pm - 6:00pm/Rutgers University, Hill Center, Room 705

Date:Wednesday, March 7
Topic:The Search for Natural Quasicrystals
Speaker:Paul Steinhardt, Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 7
Topic:Computing Homology Cycles with Certified Geometry
Speaker:Tamal Dey, Ohio State University
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 7
Topic:Lattices, Hecke Operators, and the Well-Rounded Retract
Speaker:Mark McConnell, Center for Communications Research, Princeton University
Time/Room: 5:00pm - 6:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 4
Topic:Structure of the Afferent Terminals in Terminal Ganglian of a Cricket and Persistent Homology
Speaker:Tomas Gedeon, Montana State University
Time/Room: 1:00pm - 2:00pm/David Rittenhouse Lab.(Room A-7), University of Pennsylvania

Date:Wednesday, April 4
Topic:Hodge Decomposition and Online Ranking on Random Graphs
Speaker:Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 3:30pm/David Rittenhouse Lab.(Room A-7), University of Pennsylvania

Date:Wednesday, April 4
Topic:Self-Assembly of Spherical Colloidal Particles at Low N
Speaker:Natalie Arkus, The Rockefeller University
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/David Rittenhouse Lab.(Room A-8), University of Pennsylvania