# Seminars & Events for 2015-2016

December 14, 2015
3:15pm - 4:30pm
##### Quasi-periodic standing wave solutions of gravity-capillary water waves
###### Analysis Seminar

We prove the existence and the linear stability of Cantor families of small amplitude time quasi-periodic standing wave solutions (i.e. periodic and even in the space variable x) of a 2-dimensional ocean with infinite depth under the action of gravity and surface tension, joint work with R.Montalto.

Speaker: Massimiliano Berti , SISSA
Location:
Fine Hall 110
December 14, 2015
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Active subspaces: Emerging ideas for dimension reduction in parameter studies
###### PACM/Applied Mathematics Colloquium

Scientists and engineers use computer simulations to study relationships between a physical model's input parameters and its outputs.  However, thorough parameter studies---e.g., constructing response surfaces, optimizing, or averaging---are challenging, if not impossible, when the simulation is expensive and the model has several inputs.  To enable studies in these instances, the engineer may

Speaker: Paul Constantine , Colorado School of Mines
Location:
Fine Hall 214
December 15, 2015
4:30pm - 6:00pm
##### Hilbert scheme of points on singular surfaces
###### Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The Hilbert scheme of points on a quasi-projective variety parameterizes its zero-dimensional subschemes. These Hilbert schemes are smooth and irreducible for smooth surfaces but will eventually become reducible for sufficiently singular surfaces.

Speaker: Xudong Zheng , University of Illinois at Chicago
Location:
Fine Hall 322
December 16, 2015
9:30am - 4:00pm
##### New directions in statistical mechanics and dynamical systems A conference dedicated to 80th birthday of D. Ruelle and Y. Sinai.
###### Special Events and Conferences

The meeting is supported by Princeton University and IAMP.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 (talks in McDonnell A01):

10:00 am: Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - Affine Representations and Harmonic Functions

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Location:
McDonnell Hall A01
December 17, 2015
3:00pm - 4:00pm
##### Polynomials vanishing on Cartesian products
###### Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Let F(x,y,z) be a real trivariate polynomial of constant degree, and let A,B,C be three sets of real numbers, each of size n.

Speaker: Orit Raz, Tel Aviv University
Location:
Fine Hall 224
December 17, 2015
4:15pm - 5:15pm
##### Modularity and potential modularity theorems in the function field setting
###### Princeton University/IAS Number Theory Seminar

Please note slight change in time (4:15).   Let G be a reductive group over a global field of positive characteristic. In a major breakthrough, Vincent Lafforgue has recently shown how to assign a Langlands parameter to a cuspidal automorphic representation of G.  The parameter is a homomorphism of the global Galois group into the Langlands L-group $^LG$ of G.

Speaker: Michael Harris, Columbia University
Location:
IAS Room S-101
December 17, 2015
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### The Seiberg-Witten equations and knots in 3-manifolds
###### Topology Seminar

Given a null-homologous knot inside a closed oriented 3-manifold, I will describe a filtered chain complex using the Seiberg-Witten equations, and discuss its relationship with homological invariants of knots defined by Ozsvath-Szabo and Kronheimer-Mrowka. This is work in preparation.

Speaker: Cagatay Kutluhan, University at Buffalo
Location:
Fine Hall 314
December 17, 2015
5:30pm - 6:30pm
##### Decoupling in harmonic analysis and the Vinogradov mean value theorem
###### Princeton University/IAS Number Theory Seminar

This is the second Number Theory seminar on this date.  Please note the special time.  Based on a new decoupling inequality for curves in R^d, we obtain the essentially optimal form of Vinogradov's mean value theorem in all dimensions (the case d=3 is due to T. Wooley).

Speaker: Jean Bourgain , IAS Princeton
Location:
IAS Room S-101
December 18, 2015
2:00pm - 3:00pm
##### Absolute vs. Relative Gromov-Witten invariants
###### Joint PU/IAS Symplectic Geometry Seminar

We compare absolute and relative Gromov-Witten invariants with the basic contact vector for very positive divisors. For such divisors, one might expect that these invariants are the same up to a natural multiple. We show that this is indeed the case outside of a narrow range of the dimension of the target and the genus of the domain.

Speaker: Mohammad Tehrani , Simons Center
Location:
IAS Room S-101
January 21, 2016
10:30am - 11:30am
##### From symplectic geometry to combinatorics and back
###### Joint PU/IAS Symplectic Geometry Seminar

A much studied combinatorial object associated to a polytope is its "Ehrhart function".  This is typically studied for integral or rational polytopes.

Speaker: Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner , Harvard University
Location:
IAS Room S-101
January 26, 2016
9:00am - 5:00pm
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January 27, 2016
9:00am - 5:00pm
##### Analysis, PDEs, and Geometry: A Conference in Honor of Sergiu Klainerman
###### Special Events and Conferences
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Location:
McDonnell Hall A01
January 28, 2016
9:00am - 5:00pm
##### Analysis, PDEs, and Geometry: A Conference in Honor of Sergiu Klainerman
###### Special Events and Conferences
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Location:
McDonnell Hall A01
January 29, 2016
9:00am - 12:00pm
##### Analysis, PDEs, and Geometry: A Conference in Honor of Sergiu Klainerman
###### Special Events and Conferences
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Location:
McDonnell Hall A01
February 1, 2016
3:15pm - 4:30pm
##### Degenerate evolutionary PDE and applications to stability of geometric singularities
###### Analysis Seminar

We are going to study a family of degenerate parabolic and hyperbolic differential equations which model stability problems of singularities encountered in geometric evolutionary PDE such as the Ricci flow and the Einstein equations.

Speaker: Gregorios Fournodavlos , University of Toronto
Location:
Fine Hall 110
February 3, 2016
4:30pm - 5:30pm
##### Completing the Square
###### Department Colloquium

L-functions (e.g., Riemann zeta function) constitute a special class of functions in one complex variable. It is “natural" to look at the Taylor expansion of L-functions (suitably normalized) at their “centers”.

Speaker: Wei Zhang, Columbia University
Location:
Fine Hall 314
February 4, 2016
10:30am - 11:30am
##### Floer theory revisited
###### Joint PU/IAS Symplectic Geometry Seminar

I will describe a formalism for (Lagrangian) Floer theory wherein the output is not a deformation of the cohomology ring, but of the Pontryagin algebra of based loops, or of the analogous algebra of based discs (with boundary on the Lagrangian). I will explain the consequences of quantum cohomology, and the expected applications of this theory.

Speaker: Mohammed Abouzaid , Columbia University
Location:
IAS Room S-101
February 4, 2016
12:30pm - 1:30pm
##### An invitation to conformal geometry – from Gaussian curvature to Q-curvature

In the study of surface geometry, the uniformization theorem and the Gauss-Bonnet formula are of central importance. The former provides standard geometric models while the latter connects geometric and topological properties of a surface. In this talk, I will discuss higher-dimensional generalizations of these two results in a conformal-geometry context.

Speaker: Siyi Zhang, Princeton University
Location:
Fine Hall 322
February 4, 2016
2:00pm - 3:30pm
##### Modern developments in probabilistic combinatorics
###### Ergodic Theory & Statistical Mechanics

The use of the probabilistic method, pioneered by P. Erd\H{o}s, has led to many remarkable developments in modern mathematics, including such recent breakthroughs as the existence of combinatorial designs and solutions to old problems in Ramsey Theory.

Speaker: Jacques Verstraete , University of California, San Diego
Location:
Fine Hall 601
February 4, 2016
4:00pm - 5:00pm
##### Extremal problems for cycles in graphs
###### Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Please note different time this week.  In this talk, I will give a selective survey of extremal problems for cycles in graphs. In particular, proofs of a number of conjectures of Erdos on this topic will be presented, employing a variety of methods from different branches of mathematics.

Speaker: Jacques Verstraete, UCSD
Location:
Fine Hall 224