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2012 Women and Mathematics


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

Date:Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Thursday, May 17, 2012
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Friday, May 18, 2012
Time/Room:9:00am - 10:00am

Date:Saturday, May 19, 2012
Time/Room:9:30am - 3:30pm

Date:Monday, May 21, 2012
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Thursday, May 24, 2012
Time/Room:9:30am - 6:30pm

Date:Friday, May 25, 2012
Time/Room:9:30am - 12:30pm

 

2013 Women and Mathematics


Date:Monday, May 13
Topic:
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/Simonyi Hall

Date:Tuesday, May 14
Topic:
Time/Room: 7:00pm - 9:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Monday, May 20
Topic:
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/Simonyi Hall

 

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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Global Existence of Surface Waves
Speaker:Jalal Shatah, Courant Institute, NYU
Time/Room: 3:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 6, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Formation of Singularities in Fluid Interfaces
Speaker:Charles Fefferman, Princeton University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Topic:Sub-Weyl Subconvexity and Short p-Adic Exponential Sums
Speaker:Djordje Milicevic
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Topic:Hole Probability for Entire Functions Represented by Gaussian Taylor Series
Speaker:Alon Nishry, Tel Aviv University
Time/Room: 3:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 19, 2012
Topic:Uniqueness and Nondegeneracy of Ground States for Non-Local Equations
Speaker:Rupert Frank, Princeton University
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Topic:The Strauss Conjecture on Black Holes
Speaker:Mihai Tohaneanu, Johns Hopkins University
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Topic:The Incompressible Euler Equations in Lagrangian Coordinates, with Applications to Analyticity of Fluid Particle Trajectories and to Numerical Simulations
Speaker:Uriel Frisch, Laboratoire Lagrange, Observatoire de a Coe d'Azur, Nice, France
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 9, 2012
Topic:Three Projection Operators in Several Complex Variables
Speaker:Elias Stein, Princeton University
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Topic:A Non-Commutative Analog of the 2-Wasserstein Metric for which the Fermionic Fokker-Planck Equation is Gradient Flow for the Entropy
Speaker:Eric Carlen, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 30, 2012
Topic:Magnetic Vortices, Nielsen-Olesen-Nambu Strings and Theta Functions
Speaker:Israel M. Sigal, University of Toronto
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Friday, December 7, 2012
Topic:Nonlinear Long-Range Resonant Scattering and Kink Dynamics
Speaker:Avy Soffer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, January 15
Topic:Dispersive Estimates for Schroedinger's Equation with a Time-Dependent Potential
Speaker:Marius Beceanu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, January 22
Topic:Hamiltonian Evolution Equations -- Where They Come From, What They Are Good For
Speaker:Juerg Frohlich, ETH Zurich; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, January 22
Topic:Sphere Packing Bounds Via Spherical Codes
Speaker:Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research New England/MIT
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, January 29
Topic:Toeplitz Matrices and Determinants Under the Impetus of the Ising Model
Speaker:Percy Deift, Courant Institute, NYU
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Friday, February 1
Topic:Large Data Dynamics for Nonlinear Dispersive PDEs
Speaker:Wilhelm Schlag, University of Chicago
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 19
Topic:New Approximations of the Total Variation, and Filters in Image Processing
Speaker:Haim Brezis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 19
Topic:Dynamics of Gibbs Measure Evolution for the Radial Nonlinear Schr\"odinger and Wave Equations on the Ball
Speaker:Aynur Bulut, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 26
Topic:Partial Regularity of Solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations in High Dimensions
Speaker:Hongjie Dong, Brown University
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 2
Topic:Resonances for Normally Hyperbolic Trapped Sets
Speaker:Semyon Dyatlov, University of California
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 9
Topic:Calibrations of Degree Two and Regularity Issues
Speaker:Constante Bellettini, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 11
Topic:Hamiltonian Instability Driven by Recurrent Dynamics
Speaker:Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 23
Topic:Conformal Invariants from Nodal Sets
Speaker:Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 23
Topic:On the Existence of Global Solutions of Certain Fluid Models
Speaker:Alexandru Ionescu, Princeton University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, April 26
Topic:New Limiting Theorems for the Mobius Function
Speaker:Yakov Sinai, Princeton University
Time/Room: 3:15pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 30
Topic:A Non-Isotropic Mechanism for the Formation of Trapped Surfaces
Speaker:Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University
Time/Room: 3:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

 

Andre' Joyal's 70th Birthday


Date:Monday, February 25
Topic:A Type System With Two Kinds of Identity Types
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 10:00am - 11:00am/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Monday, February 25
Topic:Connectedness and the Freudenthal Suspension Theorem
Speaker:Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Monday, February 25
Topic:Joyal Theorems for Homotopical Species
Speaker:Joachim Kock, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Monday, February 25
Topic:Rings and Near Rings in 2-Monoidal Categories
Speaker:Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M University
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Monday, February 25
Topic:Braid Extended Power Operations in Topology
Speaker:Terry Bisson, Canisius College
Time/Room: 5:00pm - 6:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

 

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I


Date:Monday, February 13, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:An Additive Combinatorics Approach to the Log-Rank Conjecture in Communication Complexity
Speaker:Noga Zewi, Technion
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 5, 2012
Topic:The Complexity of Distributions
Speaker:Emanuele Viola, Northeastern University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 12, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Rational Proofs
Speaker:Pablo Azar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 16, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Speaker:No seminar today (STOC Conference)
Time/Room:11:15am - 12:15pm

Date:Monday, September 24, 2012
Topic:The Computational Complexity of Geometric Topology Problems
Speaker:Greg Kuperberg, University of California, Davis
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 1, 2012
Topic:Random Vectors, Random Matrices, Permuted Products, Permanents, and Diagrammatic Fun
Speaker:Cris Moore, Santa Fe Institute
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 8, 2012
Topic:Identity Testing of Tensors, Low Rank Recovery and Compressed Sensing
Speaker:Amir Shpilka, Technion
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 15, 2012
Topic:A Multi-Prover Interactive proof for NEXP Sound Against Entangled Provers
Speaker:Tsuyoshi Ito, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 22, 2012
Speaker:No Seminar (FOCS Meeting)
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 29, 2012
Topic:Combinatorial Walrasian Equilibrium
Speaker:Michal Feldman, Hebrew University and Harvard University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 5, 2012
Topic:Query Complexity of Black-Box Search
Speaker:Ben Rossman, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 12, 2012
Speaker:No Seminar (Oberwolfach)
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 19, 2012
Topic:A Complete Dichotomy Rises from the Capture of Vanishing Signatures
Speaker:Jin-Yi Cai, University of Wisconsin
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 26, 2012
Topic:Polynomial Identity Testing of Read-Once Oblivious Algebraic Branching Progress
Speaker:Michael Forbes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 3, 2012
Topic:Information Complexity and Exact Communication Bounds
Speaker:Mark Braverman, Princeton University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 10, 2012
Topic:Matching: A New Proof for an Ancient Algorithm
Speaker:Vijay Vazirani, Georgia Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 17, 2012
Speaker:No Seminar
Time/Room:11:15am - 12:15pm

Date:Monday, January 14
Topic:On Bilinear Complexity
Speaker:Pavel Hrubes, University of Washington
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, January 21
Topic:Clique Number of Random Geometric Graphs in High Dimension
Speaker:Sebastien Bubeck, Princeton University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, January 28
Topic:New Independent Source Extractors with Exponential Improvement
Speaker:Xin Li, University of Washington
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 4
Topic:Influences, Traces, Tribes, and Perhaps Also Thresholds
Speaker:Gil Kalai, Hebrew University; Yale University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 11
Topic:Mathematical Theories of Interaction with Oracles: Active Property Testing and New Models for Learning Boolean Functions
Speaker:Liu Yang, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 18
Topic:Connectedness, Sperner's Lemma and Combinatorial Problems
Speaker:Penny Haxell, University of Waterloo
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 25
Topic:Polar Codes and Randomness Extraction for Structured Sources
Speaker:Emmanuel Abbe, Princeton University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 4
Topic:Quasirandom Hypergraphs
Speaker:Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 11
Topic:Intractability in Algorithmic Game Theory
Speaker:Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 18
Topic:Constant Rate PCPs for Circuit-SAT with Sublinear Query Complexity
Speaker:Eli Ben-Sasson, Technion; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 25
Topic:New Locally Decodable Codes from Lifting
Speaker:Madhu Sudan, Microsoft Research
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 1
Topic:Device Independence: A New Paradigm for Randomness Manipulation?
Speaker:Thomas Vidick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 8
Speaker:No Seminar Talk
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 15
Topic:Analytical Approach to Parallel Repetition
Speaker:Irit Dinur, Weizmann Institute; Radcliffe institute
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 22
Topic:Diffuse Decompositions of Polynomials
Speaker:Daniel Kane, Stanford University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 29
Topic:Cryptography and Preventing Collusion in Second Price (Vickery) Auctions
Speaker:Michael Rabin, Harvard University and Columbia University
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, May 6
Topic:Tight Bounds for Set Disjointness in the Message-Passing Model
Speaker:Rotem Oshman, University of Toronto
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, May 13
Topic:Nondeterministic Direct Product Reductions and the Success Probability of SAT Solvers
Speaker:Andrew Drucker, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, May 13
Topic:Association Schemes, Non-Commutative Polynomials and Lasserre Lower Bounds for Planted Clique
Speaker:Raghu Meka, DIMACS (Rutgers); Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:30pm/S-101

 

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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Finding Needles in Exponential Haystacks
Speaker:Joel Spencer, Courant Institute, NYU
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Applications of FT-Mollification
Speaker:Jelani Nelson, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Higher-Order Cheeger Inequalities
Speaker:Luca Trevisan, Stanford University
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 3, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:List-Decoding Multiplicity Codes
Speaker:Swastik Kopparty, Rutgers University
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Pseudorandom Generators for Read-Once ACC^0
Speaker:Srikanth Srinivasan, DIMACS
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Pseudorandomness from Shrinkage
Speaker:Raghu Meka, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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, 2012
Speaker:No seminar today (STOC Conference)
Time/Room:10:30am - 12:30pm

Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Topic:Koiran + Geometric Topology implies "Knottedness is in NP"
Speaker:Greg Kuperberg, University of California, Davis
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Topic:Plug your ears! Graph isomorphism, siren of the algebraic seas, calls to your quantum helmsman.
Speaker:Alex Russell, University of Connecticut
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Topic:On the Conjectures of Nonnegative $k$-Sum and Hypergraph Matching
Speaker:Hao Huang, University of California, Los Angeles; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Topic:On the AND- and OR-Conjectures: Limits to Efficient Preprocessing
Speaker:Andrew Drucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Speaker:No Seminar (FOCS Meeting)
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Topic:Games, Solution Concepts, and Mechanism Design: A Very Short Introduction
Speaker:Jing Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Speaker:No Seminar (Oberwolfach)
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Topic:On the Complexity of Matrix Multiplication and Other Tensors
Speaker:Joseph Landsberg, Texas A&M University
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Topic:Computational Complexity in Mechanism Design
Speaker:Jing Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Topic:Delegation for Bounded Space
Speaker:Ran Raz, Weizmann Institute; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Topic:Combinatorial PCPs with Short Proofs
Speaker:Or Meir, Stanford University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Topic:The SOS (aka Lassere/Positivestellensatz/Sum-of-Squares) System
Speaker:(1) Raghu Meka and (2) Avi Wigderson, (1) DIMACS; (2) IAS
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, January 15
Topic:OSNAP: Faster Numerical Linear Algebra Algorithms Via Sparser Subspace Embeddings
Speaker:Jelani Nelson, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, January 22
Topic:Sparsity Lower Bounds for Dimensionality Reducing Maps
Speaker:Jelani Nelson, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, January 29
Topic:The Ribe Program
Speaker:Manor Mendel, The Open University of Israel; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 5
Topic:Ramsey Theory for Metric Spaces
Speaker:Manor Mendel, The Open University of Israel; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 12
Topic:High Dimensional Expanders and Ramanujan Complexes
Speaker:Alex Lubotzky, Hebrew University
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 19
Topic:The Chasm at Depth 3
Speaker:Shubhangi Saraf, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 26
Topic:Derandomizing BPL?
Speaker:Avi Wigderson, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 5
Topic:Derandomization of Probabilistic Logspace (The Nisan Variations)
Speaker:Avi Wigderson, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 12
Topic:Sensitivity Versus Block Sensitivity, I
Speaker:Hao Huang, University of California, Los Angeles; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 19
Topic:Sensitivity Versus Block Sensitivity, II
Speaker:Hao Huang, University of California, Los Angeles; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 26
Speaker:No Seminar Talk
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 2
Topic:An Arithmetic Analogue of Fox's Improved Triangle Removal Lemma
Speaker:Sushant Sachdeva, Princeton University
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 9
Topic:"What is Geometric Entropy, and Does it Really Increase?"
Speaker:Jozsef Beck, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 16
Speaker:No Seminar Talk
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 23
Topic:Uncertainty Principle
Speaker:Klim Efremenko, Tel-Aviv University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 30
Topic:Combinatorial Walrasian Equilibrium
Speaker:Michal Feldman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, May 7
Speaker:No Seminar Talk
Time/Room: 10:30am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, May 14
Speaker:No Seminar Talk
Time/Room:10:30am - 12:30pm

 

Conference on Graphs and Analysis


Date:Monday, June 4, 2012
Time/Room: 10:00am - 5:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Time/Room: 10:00am - 5:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Time/Room: 10:00am - 5:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Thursday, June 7, 2012
Time/Room: 10:00am - 5:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

Date:Friday, June 8, 2012
Time/Room: 10:00am - 5:00pm/Wolfensohn Hall

 

Faculty Lecture


Date:Wednesday, April 24
Topic:A Hollywood Celebrity, the `Bad Boy' of Music, and the History of Modern Wireless Communications
Speaker:Mark Goresky, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Hypergeometric Motives
Speaker:Fernando Villegas, University Texas at Austin
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Thursday, March 29, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Local Models of Shimura Varieties
Speaker:Xinwen Zhu, Harvard University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, April 19, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:A Mathematical Theory of Quantum Sheaf Cohomology
Speaker:Ron Donagi, University of Pennsylvania
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, September 28, 2012
Topic:Algebraic Structures Associated to Weinstein Manifolds
Speaker:Yasha Eliashberg, Stanford University
Time/Room: 5:00pm - 6:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 5, 2012
Topic:Symplectic Geometry and Quantum Noise
Speaker:Leonid Polterovich, Tel Aviv University and SCGP
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 12, 2012
Topic:Homological Mirror Symmetry for a Calabi-Yau Hypersurface in Projective Space
Speaker:Nicholas Sheridan, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 322

Date:Friday, October 19, 2012
Topic:On the Symplectic Invariance of log Kodaira Dimension
Speaker:Mark McLean, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 322

Date:Friday, October 26, 2012
Speaker:No Seminar This Week
Time/Room:4:30pm - 5:30pm

Date:Friday, November 2, 2012
Topic:Hamiltonian S^1 Actions with Isolated Fixed Points on 6-Dimensional Symplectic Manifolds
Speaker:Andrew Fanoe, Columbia University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 9, 2012
Topic:Behavior of Welschinger Invariants Under Morse Simplification
Speaker:Erwan Brugalle, Universite de Paris 6
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 9, 2012
Topic:An Arithmetic Refinement of Homological Mirror Symmetry for the 2-Torus
Speaker:Yanki Lekili, University of Cambridge
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 16, 2012
Topic:Abstract Analogues of Flux as Symplectic Invariants
Speaker:Paul Seidel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 23, 2012
Note: No Talk Today -- IAS Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 30, 2012
Topic:A Reverse Isoperimetric Inequality for J-Holomorphic curves
Speaker:Jake Solomon, Hebrew University
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:00pm/Fine Hall 401

Date:Friday, November 30, 2012
Topic:Gromov-Witten Theory and Cycle-Valued Modular Forms
Speaker:Yefeng Shen, University of Michigan
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/Fine Hall 401

Date:Friday, December 7, 2012
Topic:Open-Closed Gromov-Witten Invariants of Toric Calabi-Yau 3-Orbifolds
Speaker:Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu, Columbia University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, December 14, 2012
Topic:Arnold Conjecture for Clifford Symplectic Pencils
Speaker:Doris Hein, University of California, Santa Cruz; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 322

Date:Friday, February 8
Topic:Toric b-Symplectic and Origami Manifolds
Speaker:Ana Rita Pires, Cornell University
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/Fine Hall 322

Date:Friday, February 15
Topic:Contact Non-Squeezing and Rabinowitz Floer Homologhy
Speaker:Peter Albers, Universitat Munster
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, February 22
Topic:Symplectic Cohomolopgy and Loop Homology
Speaker:Mohammed Abouzaid, Columbia Unviersity; Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/Fine Hall 322

Date:Friday, March 1
Topic:Intermediate Symplectic Capacities
Speaker:Alvaro Pelayo, Washington University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, March 8
Topic:Lagrangian Caps in High-Dimensional Symplectic Manifolds
Speaker:Emmy Murphy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/Fine Hall 322

Date:Friday, March 15
Topic:Resonance for Loop Homology on Spheres
Speaker:Nancy Hingston, The College of New Jersey; Member, School of Mathemtics
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, March 22
Topic:The Hypoelliptic Laplacian
Speaker:Jean-Michel Bismut, Universite de Paris-Sud
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/Fine Hall 322

Date:Friday, March 29
Topic:Dimers and Integrability
Speaker:Richard Kenyon, Brown University
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, April 5
Topic:Manifolds with G_2 Holonomy and Contact Structures
Speaker:Sema Salur, University of Rochester and Princeton University
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/Fine Hall 322

Date:Friday, April 12
Topic:Construction of the Kuranishi Structure on the Moduli Space of Pseudo-Holomorphic Curves
Speaker:Kenji Fukaya, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, April 19
Topic:Examples of Nearly Integrable Systems with Asymptotically Dense Projected Orbits
Speaker:Jean-Pierre Marco, Universite Paris VI
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:00pm/Fine Hall 314

 

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar


Date:Thursday, September 20, 2012
Topic:Towards Weak p-Adic Langlands for GL(n)
Speaker:Claus Sorensen, Princeton University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, October 4, 2012
Topic:A Converse Theorem for SL_2
Speaker:Vinayak Vatsal, University of British Columbia
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 214

Date:Thursday, October 11, 2012
Topic:Modular Forms Modulo 2
Speaker:Jean-Pierre Serre, CNRS and College de France
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 214

Date:Thursday, October 18, 2012
Topic:On the Parity of Coefficients of Modular Forms
Speaker:Joel Bellaiche, Brandeis University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, October 25, 2012
Topic:Central Values of Rankin-Selberg L-Functions and Period Relations
Speaker:Michael Harris, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 214

Date:Thursday, November 8, 2012
Topic:The Tate Conjecture for K3 Surfaces Over Fields of Odd Characteristic
Speaker:Keerthi Madapusi, Harvard University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 214

Date:Thursday, November 15, 2012
Topic:Galois Representations for Regular Algebraic Cuspidal Automorphic Forms
Speaker:Richard Taylor, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 22, 2012
Note: No Talk Today -- IAS Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday
Time/Room:4:30pm - 5:30pm

Date:Thursday, November 29, 2012
Topic:Sato-Tate Distributions in Genus 2
Speaker:Andrew Sutherland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, December 6, 2012
Topic:Monodromy and Arithmetic Groups
Speaker:T. N. Venkataramana, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 214

Date:Thursday, December 13, 2012
Topic:Local Global Principles for Galois Cohomology
Speaker:Julia Hartmann, RWTH Aachen University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, January 17
Topic:Counting Rational Points on Cubic Surfaces
Speaker:Pierre Le Boudec, Universite Denis Diderot (Paris VII); Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, January 24
Topic:Abelian varieties with maximal Galois action on their torsion points
Speaker:David Zywina, Queen's University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, January 31
Topic:Automorphic Levi-Sobolev Spaces, Boundary-Value Problems, and Self-Adjoint Operators
Speaker:Paul Garrett, University of Minnesota
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 7
Topic:Relative Artin Motives and the Reductive Borel-Serre Compactification of a Locally Symmetric Variety
Speaker:Joseph Ayoub, University of Zurich
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 214

Date:Thursday, February 14
Topic:Regularized Periods of Automorphic Forms
Speaker:Atsushi Ichino, Kyoto University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 214

Date:Thursday, February 21
Topic:Compactifications of PEL-Type Shimura Varieties and Kuga Families with Ordinary Loci
Speaker:Kai-Wen Lan, University of Minnesota
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 28
Topic:Standard and Nonstandard Comparisons of Relative Trace Formulas
Speaker:Yiannis Sakellaridis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 7
Topic:Goren-Oort Stratification of Hilbert Modular Varieties mod p and Tate Conjecture
Speaker:Liang Xiao, University of Chicago
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 214

Date:Thursday, March 14
Topic:An Analogue of the Ichino-Ikeda Conjecture for Whittaker Coefficients of the Metaplectic Group
Speaker:Erez Lapid, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Weizmann Institute of Science
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 28
Topic:Non-Archimedean Approximations by Special Points
Speaker:Philipp Habegger, University of Frankfurt; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 214

Date:Thursday, April 4
Topic:A Converse to a Theorem of Gross-Zaqier-Kolyvagin
Speaker:Christopher Skinner, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 11
Topic:Symmetric Power Functoriality for GL(2)
Speaker:Jack Thorne, Harvard University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 214

Date:Thursday, April 18
Topic:Most Hyperelliptic Curves Over Q Have No Rational Points
Speaker:Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 25
Topic:Harmonic Maass Forms of Weight One
Speaker:William Duke, University of California, Los Angeles
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 214

Date:Thursday, May 2
Topic:Moduli of Representations and Pseudorepresentations
Speaker:Carl Wang Erickson, Harvard University
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Dynamics on the Moduli Spaces of Curves, III
Speaker:Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 12
Topic:Unexpected Applications of Polynomials in Combinatorics
Speaker:Larry Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 13
Topic:What is Special About Polynomials? (Perspectives from Coding theory and Differential Geometry)
Speaker:Larry Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 14
Topic:The Codimension Barrier in Incidence Geometry
Speaker:Larry Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Euler, Riemann and Chebyshev
Speaker:Daniel Fiorilli, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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, 2012
Topic:Positivity, Causality and Convexity
Speaker:Anna Wienhard, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, March 7, 2012
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, 2012
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 17, 2012
Speaker:There will be no Mathematical Conversations talk this week.
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Topic:Synthetic Differential Cohomology
Speaker:Michael Shulman, University of California, San Diego; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Topic:Duality, Universality and Random Matrices
Speaker:Thomas Spencer, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Topic:The Prisoner's Dilemma
Speaker:Freeman J. Dyson, Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences, IAS
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Note: There will be no Mathematical Conversations talk today
Time/Room:6:00pm - 7:30pm

Date:Friday, November 30, 2012
Topic:Eliciting Higher-Order Beliefs Under Proper Higher-Order Rationality
Speaker:Jing Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Topic:Checking Mathematical Proofs With a Computer
Speaker:Assia Mahboubi, INRIA (French National Institute for Research in CS); Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Topic:Derived Methods in Arithmetic Geometry
Speaker:Bhargav Bhatt, University of Michigan; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, January 16
Topic:Duality, Universality and Random Matrices
Speaker:Thomas Spencer, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, January 23
Topic:Provable Bounds in Machine Learning
Speaker:Ankur Moitra, Member, Shcool of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Friday, February 1
Topic:Quantum Theory and Topos Theory
Speaker:Bas Spitters, Radboud University Nijmegen; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, February 6
Topic:What is a Higher Order Object?
Speaker:Nils Baas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, February 13
Topic:Kozai-Lidov Oscillations
Speaker:Scott Tremaine, School of Natural Sciences, IAS
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, February 27
Topic:Local Codes and Symmetry
Speaker:Klim Efremenko, Tel-Aviv University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, March 6
Topic:Why Braids?
Speaker:Mina Teicher, Bar-Ilan University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Friday, March 15
Topic:In Computers We Trust?
Speaker:Tom Hales, University of Pittsburgh
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, March 20
Topic:A Trip to the Moon
Speaker:Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Friday, March 29
Topic:Constructing Invariants in Symplectic Geometry
Speaker:Alvaro Pelayo, Washington University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, April 3
Topic:Symmetry may be pretty, but asymmetry is subtle.
Speaker:Dieter Kotschick, Universitat Munchen; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Friday, April 12
Topic:Zeros of Zeta Functions and the Riemann Hypothesis
Speaker:Anders Sodergren, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Wednesday, October 2
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Friday, October 11
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

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

Date:Friday, November 8
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

Date:Friday, November 15
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

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

Date:Wednesday, November 27
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

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

Date:Friday, December 13
Speaker:To Be Announced
Time/Room: 6:00pm - 7:30pm/Dilworth Room

 

Mathematics Seminar Talks


Date:Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

 

MATHEMATICS SEMINARS


Date:Monday, March 12, 2012
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Thursday, March 15, 2012
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Friday, March 16, 2012
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

 

Mathematics Seminars


Date:Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Thursday, May 17, 2012
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Friday, May 18, 2012
Time/Room: 10:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Monday, May 21, 2012
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Thursday, May 24, 2012
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Friday, May 25, 2012
Time/Room:9:00am - 5:00pm

Date:Tuesday, May 21
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Wednesday, May 22
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Thursday, May 23
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Friday, May 24
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Monday, November 4
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

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

Date:Wednesday, November 6
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

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

Date:Friday, November 8
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Monday, March 31, 2014
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Thursday, April 3, 2014
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Friday, April 4, 2014
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

 

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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Speaker:No seminar today -- IAS closed for Presidents' Day
Time/Room:2:00pm - 3:00pm

Date:Monday, February 27, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
Speaker:No seminar today in lieu of Workshop on Symplectic Dynamics II
Time/Room:2:00pm - 3:00pm

Date:Monday, March 19, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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

Date:Monday, October 8, 2012
Topic:Parallel Repetition of Two Prover Games: A Survey
Speaker:Ran Raz, Weizmann Institute; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 15, 2012
Topic:How to Find Periodic Orbits and Exotic Symplectic Manifolds
Speaker:Mark McLean, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 22, 2012
Topic:Algebraic K-Theory Via Binary Complexes
Speaker:Daniel Grayson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 29, 2012
Speaker:There will be no Members Seminar today.
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 5, 2012
Topic:Patching and Local-Global Principles
Speaker:Julia Hartmann, RWTH Aachen University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 12, 2012
Topic:Proof of a 35 Year Old Conjecture for the Entropy of SU(2) Coherent States, and its Generalization.
Speaker:Elliot Lieb, Princeton University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 19, 2012
Topic:Univalent Foundations
Speaker:Steve Awodey, Carnegie Mellon University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 26, 2012
Topic:A Computer-Checked Proof that the Fundamental Group of the Circle is the Integers
Speaker:Daniel Licata, Carnegie Mellon University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 3, 2012
Topic:Quantum Mechanics -- a Primer for Mathematicians
Speaker:Juerg Frohlich, ETH Zurich; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 10, 2012
Topic:A Tricky Problem on Sums of Two Squares
Speaker:Enrico Bombieri, Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 17, 2012
Speaker:There will be no Members Seminar today
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, January 14
Speaker:There will be no Members Seminar today
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, January 21
Note: IAS Closed in Observance of Martin Luther King Day
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, January 28
Topic:Toeplitz Matrices and Determinants Under the Impetus of the Ising Model
Speaker:Percy Deift, Courant Institute, NYU
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 4
Topic:Quantum Ergodicity on Large Regular Graphs
Speaker:Nalini Anantharaman, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 11
Topic:Homological Mirror Symmetry
Speaker:Nicholas Sheridan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 18
Speaker:No seminar today -- IAS closed for Presidents' Day
Time/Room:2:00pm - 3:00pm

Date:Monday, February 25
Topic:Collective Phenomena, Collective Motion, and Collective Action in Ecological Systems
Speaker:Simon Levin, Princeton University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 4
Topic:Hodge and Chern Numbers of Algebraic Varieties 60 Years After Hirzebruch's Riemann-Roch Theorem
Speaker:Dieter Kotschick, Universitat Munchen; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 11
Topic:Random Matrices, Dimensionality Reduction, and Faster Numerical Linear Algebra Algorithms
Speaker:Jelani Nelson, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 18
Topic:Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics
Speaker:Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 25
Topic:Rigidity of Actions on CAT(0) Cube Complexes
Speaker:Alessandra Iozzi, ETH-Zurich; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 1
Topic:Conformal Dynamics in Pseudo-Riemannian Geometry: Around a Question of A. Lichnerowicz
Speaker:Charles Frances, Universite Paris-Sud 11; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 8
Topic:Small Height and Infinite Non-Abelian Extensions
Speaker:Philipp Habegger, University of Frankfurt; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

 

Mini-Course on Polyfolds


Date:Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Topic:Polyfolds I
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:00am - 11:00am/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Topic:Polyfolds II
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Topic:Polyfolds III
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Topic:Polyfolds IV
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 5, 2012
Topic:Polyfolds V
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 10:00am - 11:00am/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 5, 2012
Topic:Polyfolds VI
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 5, 2012
Topic:Polyfolds VII
Speaker:Helmut Hofer, Professor, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 5, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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

 

Presentation on the history of the Institute and the School of Mathematics


Date:Thursday, February 28
Topic:
Speaker:Christine Di Bella, Erica Mosner, Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Time/Room: 3:00pm - 5:00pm/White-Levy Room

 

School of Math Cocktail Party


Date:Tuesday, October 8
Topic:
Time/Room:5:30pm - 7:30pm

 

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

Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Topic:Syntax and Semantics
Speaker:Benedikt Ahrens, Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 2:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Topic:Dispersive Estimates for Wave and Schroedinger Equations
Speaker:Marius Beceanu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:15pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Topic:Stability and Instability of Extremal Black Holes
Speaker:Stefanos Aretakis, University of Cambridge; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Topic:Derived de Rham Cohomology
Speaker:Bhargav Bhatt, University of Michigan; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Topic:Mechanisms Leveraging Arbitrary Set-Theoretic Belief Hierarchies
Speaker:Jing Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:15pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Topic:Categorical Langlands Correspondence in Positive Characteristic
Speaker:Tsao-Hsien Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 4:45pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, September 27, 2012
Topic:The Complexity of Transforming Problem Instances
Speaker:Andrew Drucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 2:15pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, September 27, 2012
Topic:Locally Decodable Codes
Speaker:Klim Efremenko, Tel-Aviv University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:15pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, September 27, 2012
Topic:Higher Dimensional Syntax
Speaker:Eric Finster, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, September 27, 2012
Topic:Representation Theory of Groups Over Close Local fields
Speaker:Radhika Ganapathy, Purdue University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, September 27, 2012
Topic:Galois Representations and Modular Forms of Non-Regular Weight
Speaker:David Geraghty, Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study
Time/Room: 4:15pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, September 27, 2012
Topic:Irregular Automorphic Galois Representations
Speaker:Wushi Goldring, Universite Paris 13; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 4:45pm/S-101

Date:Friday, September 28, 2012
Topic:Periodic Orbits in Hamiltonian Dynamics
Speaker:Doris Hein, University of California, Santa Cruz; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 2:15pm/S-101

Date:Friday, September 28, 2012
Topic:Discrete Fourier Restriction Phenomenon and Associated Dispersive Equations
Speaker:Yi Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:15pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, September 28, 2012
Topic:Graph Coloring, Biclique Partition, and Communication Complexity
Speaker:Hao Huang, University of California, Los Angeles; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Friday, September 28, 2012
Topic:Counting Rational Points on Cubic Surfaces
Speaker:Pierre Le Boudec, Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Friday, September 28, 2012
Topic:Topological Dagta Analysis and Persistent Homology
Speaker:Michael Lesnick, Stanford University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:15pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, September 28, 2012
Topic:Computing with Univalence
Speaker:Daniel Licata, Carnegie Mellon University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 4:45pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 1, 2012
Topic:Higher Inductive Types
Speaker:Peter Lumsdaine, Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 2:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 1, 2012
Topic:Symplectic Geometry of Smooth Affine Varieties
Speaker:Mark McLean, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:15pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 1, 2012
Topic:Information Theoretic Arguments for Circuit Lower Bounds
Speaker:Or Meir, Stanford University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 1, 2012
Topic:Sketching and Streaming Algorithms
Speaker:Jelani Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 4:15pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 1, 2012
Topic:Lifting Projective Galois Representations
Speaker:Stefan Patrikis, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:15pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 1, 2012
Topic:Tangential Lipschitz Gain for Holomorphic Functions
Speaker:Sivaguru Ravisankar, The Ohio State University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 4:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Topic:Counting GL_2(\mathbb{Z}) orbits on binary quartic forms and applications
Speaker:Arul Shankar, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 2:15pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Topic:Random Band Matrices: Local Regime
Speaker:Tetiana Shcherbyna, ILTPE of the National Academy of Sci. of Ukraine; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:15pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Topic:The Relative Fukaya Category, Symplectic and Quantum Cohomology
Speaker:Nicolas Sheridan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Topic:Inernal Languages for Higher Toposes
Speaker:Michael Shulman, University of California, San Diego; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 3:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Topic:Type Classes for Mathematical Formalizations in Coq
Speaker:Matthieu Sozeau, INRIA Paris; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 3:45pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, October 4, 2012
Topic:Iwasawa Theory for Unitary Groups
Speaker:Xin Wan, Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 2:15pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, October 4, 2012
Topic:Hope for a Type-Theoretic Understanding of Zero-Knowledge
Speaker:Noam Zeilberger, IMDEA Software Institute; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:15pm - 2:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, October 4, 2012
Topic:The Inverse Galois Problem for PSL_2(F_p)
Speaker:David Zywina, Queen's University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

 

Special Number Theory Seminar Talk


Date:Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Topic:p-Adic Hodge Theory
Speaker:Alexander Beilinson, University of Chicago
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/S-101

 

Special Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Lecture


Date:Thursday, February 23, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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

Date:Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Topic:(1) Quantum Beauty; (2) Beauty in Mathematics
Speaker:(1) Frank Wilczek; (2) Enrico Bombieri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor Emeritus, IAS
Time/Room: 2:45pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Topic:Universality in Mean Curvature Flow Neckpinches
Speaker:Gang Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Topic:Reflection Positivity and Infrared Bounds for Random Loop Models
Speaker:Daniel Ueltschi, University of Warwick, UK
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 25
Topic:Integrable Stochastic Particle Systems and Macdonald Processes
Speaker:Alexei Borodin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

 

Special Lectures in Analysis/Number Theory


Date:Wednesday, March 27
Topic:Norm Convergence of Nonconventional Ergodic Averages
Speaker:Miguel Walsh, Buenos Aires
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Wednesday, March 27
Topic:A Zero-Density Approach to Smooth Numbers
Speaker:Adam Harper, University of Montreal
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 3:30pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Wednesday, March 27
Topic:Mean Values of L-Functions for the Hyperelliptic Ensemble
Speaker:Julio Andrade, Brown University
Time/Room: 3:45pm - 4:30pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Wednesday, March 27
Topic:Statistics of the Zeros of the Zeta Function: Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Phenomena
Speaker:Brad Rodgers, University of California, Los Angeles
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

 

Special Mathematical Physics Seminar


Date:Friday, May 10
Topic:Planar Ising Model: Discrete and Continuous Structures
Speaker:Clement Hongler, Columbia University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

 

Special Number Theory Seminar


Date:Friday, March 30, 2012
Topic:Cup Products in Automorphic Cohomology
Speaker:Matthew Kerr, Washington University in St. Louis
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 10
Topic:Solvability in Polynomials of Pell Equations in a Pencil and a Conjecture of Pink
Speaker:Umberto Zannier, Scuola Normale Superiore de Pisa, Italy
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

 

Special Seminar Lecture


Date:Tuesday, March 26
Topic:The Hypoelliptic Laplacian: An Introduction
Speaker:Jean-Michel Bismut, Universite de Paris-Sud
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:00pm/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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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

 

Univalent Foundations Final Seminar


Date:Thursday, April 11
Topic:Homotopy Theory in Type Theory
Note: This talk is intended for a more general mathematical audience.
Speaker:``The Homotopy Group'' ( (1) Guillaume Brunerie, (2) Dan Licata, (3) Peter Lumsdaine), (1) School of Math., IAS, (2) Carnegie Mellon Univ.; Member, School of Math., (3) Dalhousie Univ.; Member, School of Math.
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

 

Univalent Foundations Organizational Meeting


Date:Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, January 14
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

 

Univalent Foundations Seminar


Date:Monday, September 24, 2012
Note: (Organizational Meeting)
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Topic:Type Systems
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, September 27, 2012
Topic:Overview of Univalent Foundations
Note: (Continued from September 26, 2012)
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Topic:Type Systems
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, October 4, 2012
Topic:Homotopy Type Theory in Coq
Speaker:Michael Warren, Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Topic:Type Systems and Proof Assistant
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, October 11, 2012
Topic:Toward a Computational Interpretation of Univalence
Speaker:Daniel Licata, Carnegie Mellon University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Topic:Type Systems
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, October 18, 2012
Topic:On the Setoid Model of Type Theory
Speaker:Erik Palmgren, University of Stockholm
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Topic:Type Systems
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, October 25, 2012
Topic:Kan Simplicial Set Model of Type Theory
Speaker:Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Topic:Type Systems (continued)
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 1, 2012
Topic:Kan Simplicial Set Model of Type Theory (continued)
Speaker:Peter Lumsdaine, Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 8, 2012
Speaker:Peter Lumsdaine, Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Topic:Toward Higher Inductive Types
Speaker:Michael Shulman, University of California, San Diego; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 15, 2012
Topic:The Simplicial Model of UA
Note: (continued)
Speaker:Chris Kapulkin, Visiting Student, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Topic:Type Systems
Note: (continued)
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 22, 2012
Note: No Talk Today -- IAS Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday
Time/Room:11:00am - 12:30pm

Date:Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Topic:Type Systems
Note: (continued)
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 29, 2012
Topic:The Simplicial Model of Univalence
Note: (continued)
Speaker:Chris Kapulkin, Visiting Student, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Topic:Type Systems
Note: (continued)
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, December 6, 2012
Topic:The Simplicial Model of Univalence
Note: (continued)
Speaker:Peter Lumsdaine, Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Topic:Type Systems
Note: (continued)
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, December 13, 2012
Topic:Invariance Under Isomorphism and Definability
Speaker:Per Martin-L\"of, Stockholm University
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Topic:The Type System TS
Note: (continued)
Speaker:Vladimir Voevodsky, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, December 20, 2012
Topic:Constructing HITs in a Realizability Model
Speaker:Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Wednesday, January 16
Topic:Simplicial Types
Speaker:Peter Lumsdaine, Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, January 17
Topic:State of the New Proof Assistant
Speaker:Daniel Grayson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, January 23
Topic:Homotopy and Univalence
Speaker:Thorsten Altenkirch, Univ Nottingham/IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, January 24
Topic:Orthogonal factorization in HoTT
Speaker:Egbert Rijke, Nijmegen Univ/IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, January 30
Topic:Weak Infinity Groupoids in HoTT
Speaker:Guillaume Brunerie, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, January 31
Topic:The Calculus of Opetopes
Speaker:Eric Finster, Ecole Polyechnique Federal de Lausanne; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 6
Topic:A Quillen Model Structure in Type Theory
Speaker:Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine, Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 7
Topic:Isomorphic Structures of any Kind are `Equal' in HoTT: But What is a Kind of Structure?
Speaker:Peter Aczel, The Unviersity of Manchester; Member,School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 13
Topic:The Hopf Fibration via Higher Inductive Types
Speaker:Peter Lumsdaine, Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 14
Topic:On Finite Types That Are Not h-Sets
Speaker:Sergey Melikhov, Steklov Mathematical Institute; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 20
Topic:pi_2(s^2) in HoTT
Speaker:Guillaume Brunerie, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 21
Topic:Locally Cartesian Closed Infinity Categories
Speaker:Joachim Kock, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 27
Topic:Semantics of Higher Inductive Types
Speaker:Michael Shulman, University of California, San Diego; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 28
Topic:Formal Abstract Homotopy Theory
Speaker:Jeremy Avigad, Carnegie Mellon University
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 6
Topic:Cohomology in Homotopy Type Theory
Speaker:Eric Finster, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 7
Topic:Setoids, e-Categories, and Exact Completions
Speaker:Richard Garner, Queen Mary, University of London
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 13
Topic:Eilenberg-Mac Lane Spaces in HoTT
Speaker:Daniel Licata, Carnegie Mellon University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 14
Topic:Homotopy Colimits and a Descent Theorem
Speaker:Egbert Rijke, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 20
Topic:Gluing in Homotopy Type Theory
Speaker:Michael Shulman, University of California, San Diego; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 21
Topic:A Proof Assistant Prototype Based on Algebraic Effects and Handlers
Speaker:Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, March 22
Topic:Substructural Type Theory
Speaker:Noam Zeilberger, IMDEA Software Institute; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 27
Topic:The James Construction and pi_4(S^3)
Speaker:Guillaume Brunerie, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 28
Topic:Natural Models of Type Theory
Speaker:Steve Awodey, Carnegie Mellon University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 3
Topic:On the Category of hSets
Speaker:Bas Spitters, Radboud University Nijmegen; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 4
Topic:HoTT is a Polyvalent Foundation of Mathemtics
Speaker:Andre Joyal, University of Quebec at Montreal
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 10
Topic:Directed Type Theory
Speaker:Michael Warren, Dalhousie University; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

 

Univalent Foundations Tutorial


Date:Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Topic:Homotopy Type Theory
Speaker:Michael Shulman, University of California, San Diego; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 8, 2012
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 15, 2012
Time/Room:4:00pm - 5:30pm

Date:Monday, October 22, 2012
Topic:Simplicial Set
Speaker:Michael Shulman, University of California, San Diego; Member, School of Mathematics
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, October 29, 2012
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 5, 2012
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 12, 2012
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 19, 2012
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, November 26, 2012
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 3, 2012
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 10, 2012
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, December 17, 2012
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, January 21
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, January 28
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 4
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 11
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, February 18
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 4
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 11
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 18
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 25
Topic:Isomorphism of Types: A Simple(-Typed) Viewpoint
Speaker:Sergei Soloviev, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 1
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Monday, April 8
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/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, 2012
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 23, 2012
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, March 1, 2012
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 8, 2012
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, March 15, 2012
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Thursday, March 29, 2012
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 5, 2012
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, April 12, 2012
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, April 19, 2012
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 26, 2012
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 214

Date:Thursday, May 3, 2012
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, September 13, 2012
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 801

Date:Thursday, September 20, 2012
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, September 27, 2012
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 801

Date:Thursday, October 11, 2012
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 801

Date:Thursday, October 18, 2012
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, October 25, 2012
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 801

Date:Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 8, 2012
Time/Room:2:00pm - 4:00pm

Date:Thursday, November 15, 2012
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 22, 2012
Note: No meeting today -- IAS closed for Thanksgiving Holiday
Time/Room:2:00pm - 4:00pm

Date:Thursday, November 29, 2012
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, December 6, 2012
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 801

Date:Thursday, December 13, 2012
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 7
Topic:An Introduction to motives
Speaker:Joseph Ayoub, University of Zurich
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/Fine Hall 322

Date:Thursday, February 14
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 801

Date:Thursday, February 21
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, February 28
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 7
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 801

Date:Thursday, March 14
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 801

Date:Thursday, March 28
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 801

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

Date:Thursday, April 11
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 801

Date:Thursday, April 18
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 25
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 4:00pm/Fine Hall -- 801

Date:Thursday, May 2
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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

 

Working Group on Univalent Foundations


Date:Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/Dilworth Room - Rear

Date:Friday, September 28, 2012
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 5, 2012
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 12, 2012
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 19, 2012
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, October 26, 2012
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 2, 2012
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 9, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 16, 2012
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 23, 2012
Note: No Meeting Today -- IAS Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 30, 2012
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, December 7, 2012
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, December 14, 2012
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:45pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, December 21, 2012
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Tuesday, January 15
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, January 16
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, January 18
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, January 22
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, January 23
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, January 25
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, January 29
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, January 30
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, February 1
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 5
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 6
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, February 8
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 12
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 13
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, February 15
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 19
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 20
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, February 22
Topic:The Universe is Indiscrete
Speaker:Martin Escardo, University of Birmingham, UK
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, February 26
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, February 27
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, March 1
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 5
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 6
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Friday, March 8
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 12
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Wednesday, March 13
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/West Bldg. Lecture Hall

Date:Friday, March 15
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 19
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 20
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 26
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 27
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, March 29
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 2
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 3
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, April 5
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 9
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 10
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 3:00pm/Simonyi Hall Common Room

Date:Friday, April 12
Time/Room: 11:00am - 12:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, April 12
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:30pm/S-101

 

Workng Group on Arnold Diffusion


Date:Thursday, March 22, 2012
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, 2012
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 Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Random Matrices


Date:Monday, November 4
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, November 5
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, November 6
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, November 7
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, November 8
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Monday, March 31, 2014
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, April 3, 2014
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/S-101

Date:Friday, April 4, 2014
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:00pm/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, 2012
Note: http://www.math.ias.edu/wsd2
Time/Room: 10:15am - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Note: http://www.math.ias.edu/wsd2
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Note: http://www.math.ias.edu/wsd2
Time/Room: 9:00am - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Thursday, March 15, 2012
Note: http://www.math.ias.edu/wsd2
Time/Room: 9:00am - 5:30pm/S-101

Date:Friday, March 16, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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, 2012
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

Date:Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Topic:Granular Materials and Their Networks Near Jamming
Speaker:Robert Behringer, Duke University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:30pm/Rutgers Hill Center, Room 705

Date:Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Topic:Topology and Electronic Phases of Matter
Speaker:Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 5:00pm/Rutgers Hill Center, Room 705

Date:Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Topic:Building Polyhedra by Self-Assembly
Speaker:Govind Menon, Brown University
Time/Room: 5:00pm - 6:30pm/Rutgers Hill Center, Room 705

Date:Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Topic:Continuum Percolation and Duality with Equilibrium Hard-Hyperparticle Systems
Speaker:Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University
Time/Room: 1:00pm - 2:00pm/David Rittenhouse Lab.(Room 4E19), University of Pennsylvania

Date:Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Topic:Dynamic Programming for ab-initio Prediction of Protein Folding Routes
Speaker:Julia Hockemaier, University of Illinois
Time/Room: 2:30pm - 3:30pm/David Rittenhouse Lab.(Room A8), University of Pennsylvania

Date:Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Topic:Membranes, Curvature and the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Speaker:Greg Huber, KITP Santa Barbara
Time/Room: 4:00pm - 5:00pm/David Rittenhouse Lab.(Room A8), University of Pennsylvania

Date:Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Topic:The Topology of DNA
Note: This Workshop will be held in conjunction with the symposium "Through the Looking Glass" at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science.
Speaker:Dorothy Buck, Imperial College London, UK
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Rm. 407

Date:Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Topic:Discrete Morse Complexes and Skeletons from Digital Images
Speaker:Vanessa Robins, Australian National University
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Rm. 407

Date:Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Topic:Driving Forces in Comeocyte Expansion: A Geometric Perspective
Speaker:Myfanwy Evans, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Time/Room: 5:00pm - 6:00pm/Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Rm. 407

Date:Wednesday, February 6
Topic:Visualizing and Exploring Molecular Simulation Data via Protein Energy Landscape metaphor
Note: <a href="https://biomaps.rutgers.edu/page999directions.html">
Speaker:Yusu Wang, Ohio State University
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/Proteomics Bldg. 120, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Date:Wednesday, February 6
Topic:Community Structure in Networks
Note: <a href="https://biomaps.rutgers.edu/page999directions.html">
Speaker:Mason Porter, University of Oxford
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/Proteomics Bldg. 120, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Date:Wednesday, February 6
Topic:Linear Algebra over Cell Complexes: Applications to Data, Coding and Sensor Networks
Note: <a href="https://biomaps.rutgers.edu/page999directions.html">
Speaker:Justin Curry, University of Pennsylvania
Time/Room: 5:00pm - 6:00pm/Proteomics Bldg. 120, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Date:Wednesday, March 6
Topic:Loops and Self Reference in Language and Life
Speaker:Tsvi Tlusty, Weizmann Institute of Science; Member, Simons Center for Systems Biology, IAS
Time/Room: 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 6
Topic:Locality and Unitarity from Positivity: Beyond the Positive Grassmannian
Speaker:Nima Arkani-Hamed, School of Natural Sciences, IAS
Time/Room: 3:30pm - 4:30pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, March 6
Topic:The Optimality of the Interleaving Distance on Multidimensional Persistence Modules
Speaker:Michael Lesnick, Stanford University; Member, School of Mathematics, IAS
Time/Room: 5:00pm - 6:00pm/S-101

Date:Wednesday, April 3
Topic:Properties of Cellular Microstructures: Polycrystals, Foams, and their Idealizations
Speaker:David Srolovitz, University of Pennsylvania
Time/Room: 1:30pm - 2:30pm/David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4N12

Date:Wednesday, April 3
Topic:Evolutionary Dynamics on Correlated Fitness Landscapes
Speaker:Joshua Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania
Time/Room: 3:00pm - 4:00pm/David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A6

Date:Wednesday, April 3
Topic:Towards a Covariant Theory of Coarsening via Emergent Symmetries
Note: (joint with Math Department)
Speaker:Stephen Watson, University of Glasgow
Time/Room: 4:30pm - 5:30pm/David Rittenhouse Laboratory, A8