Previous Conferences & Workshops

In this talk, I will first describe how classical Dieudonne module of finite flat group schemes and $p$-divisible groups can be recovered from crystalline cohomology of classifying stacks. Then, I will explain how in mixed characteristics, using...

Humans tend to be better at physics than at mathematics.  After all, when an apple falls from a tree, there are more people who can catch it—they know physically how the apple moves—than people who can compute its trajectory from a differential...

I will prove that the block length of every linear 3-query Locally Correctable Code (LCC) with a constant distance over any small field grows exponentially with k, the dimension of the code. This result gives the first separation between LCCs and...

We report on proofs of some recent conjectures of Drinfeld on the algebraicity of formal stacks associated with minuscule cocharacters of smooth group schemes over Z_p. These stacks are constructed using the theory of syntomification as developed by...

Abstract: I will discuss a result with Bonatti and Crovisier from 2009 showing that the $C^1$ generic diffeomorphism f of a closed manifold has trivial centralizer; i.e. fg = gf implies that g is a power of f. I’ll discuss features of the $C^1$...

In this talk, I will discuss progress on showing hardness of the Minimum Circuit Size Problem (MCSP). The computational complexity of MCSP is a longstanding mystery, dating back as far as Levin's seminal work on NP-completeness in 1973. Over the...

I will describe the construction of a harmonic measure that reproduces a harmonic function from its Robin boundary data, which is a combination of the value of the function and its normal derivative. I shall discuss the surprising fact that this...

Define the Grothendieck group of a commutative ring. Then define K1 and K2 and 
state Matsumoto’s theorem. Explain the definitions of higher K-theory in terms of the 
+-construction and in terms of the∞-group completion of groupoid of finite...

I will explain how to factor the system of Beilinson-Kato elements as a product of two modular symbols (an algebraic avatar of the Rankin-Selberg formula).  This is joint work with Shanwen Wang.