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APRIL 2008 |
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Geometry, Representation Theory, and Moduli Seminar |
Topic: |
Virtual Riemann-Roch |
Presenter: |
B. Fantechi, SISSA and IAS |
Date: |
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, Time: 3:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214 |
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Department Colloquium |
Topic: |
Entropy and the localization of eigenfunctions |
Presenter: |
Nalini Anantharaman,
Ecole Polytechnique |
Date: |
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
Abstract: |
We study the behaviour of the eigenfunctions of the laplacian, on a compact negatively curved manifold, and for large eigenvalues. The Quantum Unique Ergodicity conjecture predicts that the probability measures defined by these eigenfunctions should converge weakly to the Riemannian volume. We prove an entropy lower bound on these probability measures, which shows for instance that it is difficult for them to concentrate on closed geodesics. |
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Graduate Student Seminar |
Topic: |
The Moment Map and Delzant Polytopes |
Presenter: |
Mohammad F.Tehrani, Princeton University |
Date: |
Thursday, April 3, 2008, Time: 12:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214 |
Abstract: |
In symplectic geometry, the moment map (or momentum map) is a tool associated with a Hamiltonian action of a Lie group on a symplectic manifold, used to construct conserved quantities for the action. The moment map generalizes the classical notions of linear and angular momentum. It is an essential ingredient in various constructions of symplectic manifolds, including symplectic quotients, symplectic cuts and sums. During the lecture I will introduce this concept and I will show you how to construct symplectic manifolds having some specific image for the moment map. Also I'll say something about the relation between combinatorial data in the image of the moment map and geometric data on the manifold |
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Ergodic Theory and Statistical Mechanics Seminar |
Topic: |
Trigonometric sums and continued fractions with even partial quotients |
Presenter: |
Francesco Cellarosi, Princeton University |
Date: |
Thursday, April 3, 2008, Time: 2:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 401 |
Abstract: |
I will talk about the geometric features ("curlicues") of quadratic trigonometric sums and discuss how the renormalization of such sums is connected with continued fraction expansions with even partial quotients. I will also explain a recent renewal-time limit theorem for the sequence of denominators generated by such expansions. |
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Discrete Mathematics Seminar |
Topic: |
Points Surrounding the Origin |
Presenter: |
János Pach, NYU and Courant Institute |
Date: |
Thursday, April 3, 2008, Time: 2:15 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
Abstract: |
See http://www.math.princeton.edu/~seminar/2007-08-sem/pach2008-spring-1.pdf |
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Special Seminar |
Topic: |
Symmetries of Lagrangians of Classical mechanics and Cohomology |
Presenter: |
Hovik Khudaverdian, University of Manchester |
Date: |
Thursday, April 3, 2008, Time: 3:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 110 |
Abstract: |
We consider Lagrangians of classical mechanics which are weakly invariant with respect to a given symmetry group, i.e. whose left hand side of the equations of motion are invariant with respect to a given group. Obstructions to corresponding Lagrangian to be invariant with respect to this symmetry group arise because of cohomology of Lie algebra of symmetries and the configuration space which may have non-trivial interplay. We shall discuss physical consequence of this phenomenon which are usually revealed on quantum mechanical level.
Examples include non-relativistic particle in a constant magnetic field and an example of free particle on the punctured sphere which leads to Dirac monopole. A beautiful example is a case of non-relativistic free particle considered as a limit of relativistic one, when Bargmann cocycle ceases to be a boundary.} |
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Joint Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study Number Theory Seminar |
Topic: |
Cohen-Lenstra heuristics and the negative Pell equation |
Presenter: |
J.Klueners, Duesseldorf |
Date: |
Thursday, April 3, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: IAS SH-101 |
Abstract: |
For a squarefree integer $d$ we ask, if the negative Pell equation $x2-dy2 = -1$ is solvable over the integers. By easy considerations we see that in this case $d>0$ and that all odd prime divisors of $d$ are congruent to 1 modulo 4. Now we call a $d$ special, if it satisfies those two conditions. We are able to prove that for a positive density of special $d$ we can solve the negative Pell equation. Furthermore there is a positive density of special $d$, where the negative Pell equation cannot be solved. This result gives a big support to a conjecture of Stevenhagen who predicts those densities.
The problem is related to the behaviour of the ordinary and narrow class group of the corresponding quadratic number field. The asymptotic behaviour of those class groups is predicted by the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics. We are able to prove those conjectures for the $4$--rank. |
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Topology Seminar |
Topic: |
Length Spectrum of a Flat Metric |
Presenter: |
Chris Leininger, University of Illinois, Urbana |
Date: |
Thursday, April 3, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
Abstract: |
I'll discuss joint work-in-progress with M. Duchin and K. Rafi on the geometry of flat structures on surfaces via the lengths of its closed geodesics. |
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Symplectic Geometry Seminar |
Topic: |
The action gap and periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems |
Presenter: |
Basak Gurel, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques |
Date: |
Friday, April 4, 2008, Time: 2:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
Abstract: |
The action and index spectra of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism and their behavior under iterations carry important information about the periodic orbits of the diffeomorphism. In a recent joint work with Ginzburg, we proved that for a certain sequence of iterations of a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism, the minimal action-index gap is bounded from above when the ambient manifold is closed and symplectically aspherical. This theorem implies the Conley conjecture asserting that such a diffeomorphism has simple periodic orbits of arbitrarily large period. The proof uses the facts, also established in the same work, that an isolated fixed point remains isolated for admissible iterations and that the local Floer homology groups for all such iterations are isomorphic to each other up to a shift of degree. The latter result can be viewed as a Hamiltonian version of the Shub-Sullivan theorem on the index of an isolated fixed point. In this talk we will outline the proof of the bounded-gap theorem and, time permitting, touch upon some recent developments towards its generalizations. |
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Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Jeff Cheeger, New York University |
Date: |
Friday, April 4, 2008, Time: 3:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
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Group Actions Seminar |
Topic: |
Translation Surfaces and Notions of Periodicity |
Presenter: |
Kariane Calta, Vassar College |
Date: |
Monday, April 7, 2008, Time: 12:15 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 224 |
Abstract: |
I will provide a brief introduction to translation surfaces, which are surfaces that can be constructed by gluing finitely many polygons in R^2 along parallel edges to form a closed surface with cone points. I will discuss the geometric notion of complete periodicity as it relates to the classification of lattice translation surfaces in genus two given by Calta and McMullen. Then I will introduce the notion of algebraic periodicity which generalizes that of complete periodicity and discuss recent results of Calta and Smillie related to algebraic periodicity. |
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Operations Research and Financial Engineering Colloquium |
Topic: |
Pricing American Contingent Claims by Stochastic Linear Programming |
Presenter: |
Mustafa Pinar, Bilkent University |
Date: |
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, Time: 3:30 p.m., Location: E-219, E-Quad |
Abstract: |
See http://orfe.princeton.edu/papers/pinar-abstract.pdf |
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar |
Topic: |
Wallcrossing for K-theoretic Donaldson invariants and computations for rational surfaces |
Presenter: |
Lothar Goettsche, ICTP |
Date: |
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 322 |
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Let (X,H) be a polarized algebraic surface. Let M=M^H_X(c_1,c_2) be the moduli spaces of H-semistable rank 2 sheaves on X with Chern classes c_1, c_2. K-theoretic Donaldson invariants of X are holomorphic Euler characteristics of determinant line bundles on M. These invariants are subject to wallcrossing when H varies. In the first part of the lecture I present joint work with Nakajima and Yoshioka, where we determine a generating function for the wallcrossing in terms of elliptic functions. If time permits I will in the second part of the talk present some results about the K-theoretic invariants of rational surfaces, and relate these to Le Potiers strange duality conjecture. |
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Mathematical Physics Seminar |
Topic: |
Photon localization and Dicke superradiance : a crossover to small world networks |
Presenter: |
E. Akkermans, Technion |
Date: |
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Jadwin 343 |
Abstract: |
We study photon localization in a gas of cold atoms, using a Dicke Hamiltonian that accounts for photon mediated atomic dipolar interactions. The photon escape rates are obtained from a new class of random matrices. A scaling behavior is observed for photons escape rates as a function of disorder and system size. Photon localization is described using statistical properties of random networks which display a "small world" cross-over. Those results are compared to the Anderson photon localization transition. |
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Automorphic Forms and Galois Representations |
Topic: |
Odd order symmetric powers of L-functions of elliptic curves, and applications |
Presenter: |
Michael Harris, Paris 7 and Columbia |
Date: |
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, Time: 1:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
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Geometry, Representation Theory, and Moduli Seminar |
Topic: |
A compactification of the space of maps from curves |
Presenter: |
B. Kim, KIAS |
Date: |
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, Time: 3:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214 |
Abstract: |
We construct a new compactification of the moduli space of maps from pointed nonsingular complex projective stable curves to a nonsingular complex projective variety with prescribed ramification indices at the points. It is shown to be a proper DM-stack equipped with a natural virtual fundamental class. |
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Department Colloquium |
Topic: |
Algebraic cobordism: applications and perspectives |
Presenter: |
Marc Levine, Northeastern University |
Date: |
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
Abstract: |
We will survey our theory, with F. Morel, of algebraic cobordism. This is the algebraic analog of complex cobordism, and may be viewed as a refinement of the Chow ring, replacing algebraic cycles with algebraic manifolds. We will discuss its relation with the Chow ring and the Grothendieck group of coherent sheaves, with applications to Riemann-Roch and degree formulas (used in the proof of the Bloch-Kato conjecture). With R. Pandharipande, we have given a simple description of the relations defining algebraic cobordism, the so-called double point cobordism; we will discuss applications this has had to Donaldson-Thomas theory. Finally, we will discuss the relation of our geometric theory with a more sophisticated version defined using motivic homotopy theory. |
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Ergodic Theory and Statistical Mechanics Seminar |
Topic: |
Invariant curves near the boundary of an annulus without a twist hypothesis, following M. R. Herman |
Presenter: |
John Mather, Princeton University |
Date: |
Thursday, April 10, 2008, Time: 2:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 401 |
Abstract: |
Sometime in the nineties, M. R. Herman gave a series of lectures at Columbia on KAM theory. Yasha asked me to speak on one of the results that Herman discussed in his lectures. Here is the result:
Let f be an area preserving infinitely differentiable diffeomorphism of a closed annulus. Suppose that the restriction of f to one of the boundary components is a rotation whose rotation number satisfies a Diophantine condition. Then there exist an infinite number of rotational invariant curves in an arbitrarily small neighborhood of the given boundary component.
This result differs from earlier results in that no twist hypothesis is assumed, although then it is necessary to add the hypothesis given above about the restriction of f to the boundary component. The proof is a simple application of the formidable machinary of KAM theory. In this talk, I will state the relevant general result from KAM theory and deduce Herman's theorem from them. |
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Discrete Mathematics Seminar |
Topic: |
Averaging Points Two at a Time |
Presenter: |
David Moulton, IDA-CCR |
Date: |
Thursday, April 10, 2008, Time: 2:15 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
Abstract: |
In 2006 Brendan McKay asked the following on sci.math.research: We have n points in a disk centered at the centroid of the points. We successively replace the two furthest points from each other by two copies of their average. (After each move we still have n points with the same centroid. How many moves are necessary to guarantee that all points lie in the concentric disk of half the radius?
This really is the wrong question: it turns out that the situation is easier to study of we use a general Euclidean space and look at the rate of decay of the diameter in terms of number of moves. We get sharp asymptotic upper and lower bounds on the maximum diameter after certain numbers of moves. This involves interesting geometrical configurations and simple linear-programming arguments. |
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Topology Seminar |
Topic: |
On the renormalized volume of quasifuchsian manifolds |
Presenter: |
Jean-Marc Schlenker, Toulouse |
Date: |
Thursday, April 10, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
Abstract: |
The renormalized volume of quasifuchsian hyperbolic 3-manifolds was originally introduced for physical reasons. Takhtajan and Zograf (and others) discovered that it provides a Kähler potential for the Weil-Petersson metric on Teichmüller space. We will give an elementary, differential-geometric account of this result. It can be extended to quasifuchsian manifolds having cone singularities along infinite lines, yielding results on the Teichmüller space of hyperbolic metrics with cone singularities (of prescribed angles) on a closed surface. (Based on joint works with K. Krasnov, C. Lecuire, S. Moroianu.) |
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Symplectic Geometry Seminar |
Topic: |
Mirror symmetry of Fano toric A-model and Landau-Ginzburg B-model |
Presenter: |
Yong-Geun Oh,University of Wisconsin |
Date: |
Friday, April 11, 2008, Time: 2:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
Abstract: |
In this talk, I will introduce the notion of weakly unobstructed Lagrangian submanifolds and balanced Lagrangian submanifolds. I will explain construction of certain potential function constructed out of study of deformation theory of Floer cohomology and explain its relationship to the earlier work of Givental which advocates that quantum cohomology ring is isomorphic to the Jacobian ring of Landau-Ginzburg superpotential. I will explain these result in the context of mirror symmetry between Fano toric A-model and Landau-Ginzburg B-model. If time permits, I will indicate how this study can be related to construction of Entov-Polterovich's symplectic quasi-states on toric manifolds. |
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Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Spyros Alexakis, Princeton University |
Date: |
Friday, April 11, 2008, Time: 3:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
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Analysis Seminar |
Topic: |
The Composite Membrane Problem |
Presenter: |
Sagun Chanillo, Rutgers University |
Date: |
Monday, April 14, 2008, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 110 |
Abstract: |
We wish to build a body of prescribed shape, and of prescribed mass out of materials of varying density so as to minimize the first Dirichlet eigenvalue with fixed boundary of the body. Existence, uniqueness and regularity of the solution and the resulting free boundary problem will be discussed. |
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PACM Colloquium |
Topic: |
Airplane boarding and space-time geometry |
Presenter: |
Eitan Bachmat, Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University and Brandeis University |
Date: |
Monday, April 14, 2008, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214 |
Abstract: |
It is hard to think of a process that is more boring than boarding an airplane. In the hope of relieving, or at least shortening, some of the pain, airlines have devised various boarding strategies such as back-to-front, window to aisle, boarding by zones or even unassigned seating. In the talk we will try to overturn the negative image that airplane boarding has and will try to portray it as a very exciting process which is modeled via space-time (a.k.a Lorentzian) geometry with a touch of random matrix theory. Using the model we will try to figure out what are the better strategies. If time permits, we will use insights from the airplane borading process to suggest an interpretation for Einstein's law of motion in which god plays the ultimate dice game. The talk is entirely self contained. Partly based on joint works with D. Berend, L. Sapir, S. Skiena, M. Elkin and V. Khachaturov. |
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Rajesh Kulkarni, Michigan State University |
Date: |
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 322 |
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Mathematical Physics Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
lya Goldsheid, Queen Mary, University of London |
Date: |
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Jadwin 343 |
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Operations Research and Financial Engineering Colloquium |
Topic: |
Beyond value at risk |
Presenter: |
Lisa Goldberg |
Date: |
Tuesday, April 15, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: E-219, E-Quad |
Abstract: |
See http://orfe.princeton.edu/papers/goldberg-abstract.pdf |
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Geometry, Representation Theory, and Moduli Seminar |
Topic: |
Covers of elliptic curves and the moduli space of curves |
Presenter: |
D. Chen, Harvard University |
Date: |
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, Time: 3:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214 |
Abstract: |
Consider genus g curves that admit degree d covers to elliptic curves only branched at one point with a fixed ramification type. The locus of such covers forms a one parameter family Y that naturally maps into the moduli space of genus g curves \bar{M}_g. We study the geometry of Y, and produce a combinatorial method by which to investigate its slope, irreducible components and genus. The results can be used to study the lower bound for slopes of effective divisors on \bar{M}_g. |
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Department Colloquium |
Topic: |
Characters of finite Chevalley groups and categorification |
Presenter: |
Roma Bezrukavnikov, MIT and IAS |
Date: |
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
Abstract: |
An important branch of representation theory studies representations of reductive groups over finite fields, such as GL(n,F_q), Sp(2n,F_q) etc. A deep theory due mostly to Lusztig and Shoji provides a classification of irreducible representations and a formula for their characters in terms of certain algebro-geometric objects called character sheaves. In a joint work with M. Finkelberg and V. Ostrik we establish some new nice features of the geometric objects, motivated by an attempt to find a conceptual explanation for the beautiful but somewhat mysterious results of Lusztig and Shoji. |
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Discrete Mathematics Seminar |
Topic: |
The Finite Field Kakeya Problem |
Presenter: |
Xander Faber, Columbia University |
Date: |
Thursday, April 17, 2008, Time: 2:15 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
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Mathematical Physics Seminar ***Please note special date |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
P. Exner, Physics Inst., Czech Academy |
Date: |
Thursday, April 17, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Jadwin 343 |
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Topology Seminar |
Topic: |
Loop products and closed geodesics |
Presenter: |
Nancy Hingston, College of New Jersey |
Date: |
Thursday, April 17, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
Abstract: |
The critical points of the energy function on the free loop space L(M) of a compact Riemannian manifold M are the closed geodesics on M. Filtration by the length function gives a link between the geometry of closed geodesics and the algebraic structure given by the Chas-Sullivan product on the homology of L(M). Geometry reveals the existence of a related product on the cohomology of L(M). For manifolds such as spheres and projective spaces for which there is a metric with all geodesics closed, the resulting homology and cohomology rings are nontrivial, and closely linked to the geometry. I will not assume any knowledge of the Chas-Sullivan product. Joint work with Mark Goresky. |
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Symplectic Geometry Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Sergio Lukic, Rutgers University |
Date: |
Friday, April 18, 2008, Time: 2:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
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Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University |
Date: |
Friday, April 18, 2008, Time: 3:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
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Group Actions Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Francois Maucourant, Rennes 1 University |
Date: |
Monday, April 21, 2008, Time: 12:15 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 224 |
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Analysis Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Joachim Krieger, University of Pennsylvania |
Date: |
Monday, April 21, 2008, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 110 |
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar |
Topic: |
Grothendieck duality via the homotopy category of flat modules |
Presenter: |
Amnon Neeman, Australian National University |
Date: |
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 322 |
Abstract: |
We will discuss a novel perspective of dualizing complexes which has been discovered in the last three years. We will review three recent articles, by Jorgensen, Krause and Iyengar-Krause, before coming to recent work by myself and by Murfet. |
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Mathematical Physics Seminar |
Topic: |
Long range order for lattice dipoles |
Presenter: |
Alessandro Giuliani, University of Rome |
Date: |
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Jadwin 343 |
Abstract: |
We consider a system of classical Heisenberg spins on a cubic lattice in dimensions three or more, interacting via the dipole-dipole interaction. We prove that at low enough temperature the system displays orientational long range order, as expected by spin wave theory. The proof is based on reflection positivity methods. In particular, we demonstrate a previously unproven conjecture on the dispersion relation of the spin waves, first proposed by Froehlich and Spencer, which allows one to apply infrared bounds for estimating the long distance behavior of the spin-spin correlation functions. |
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Operations Research and Financial Engineering Colloquium |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Jonathan Eckstein, Rutgers University |
Date: |
Tuesday, April 22, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: E-219, E-Quad |
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Geometry, Representation Theory, and Moduli Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
P. Johnson, University of Michigan |
Date: |
Wednesday, April 23, 2008, Time: 3:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214 |
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Department Colloquium |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Jim Bryan, UBC |
Date: |
Wednesday, April 23, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
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Ergodic Theory and Statistical Mechanics Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Giovanni Forni, University of Maryland |
Date: |
Thursday, April 24, 2008, Time: 2:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 401 |
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Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis Seminar |
Topic: |
Knots and Topological Growth Laws in the Faddeev Model |
Presenter: |
Yisong Yang, Poly. Tech. in New York |
Date: |
Friday, April 25, 2008, Time: 3:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
Abstract: |
In this talk, I present some joint work with Fanghua Lin on the existence of knotted solitons realized as the energy-minimizing configurations in the Faddeev field-theoretical model and the associated universal topological growth laws which relate the knot energy to knot topological charge defined by the Hopf invariant. |
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Group Actions Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Alex Furman, University of Illinois at Chicago |
Date: |
Monday, April 28, 2008, Time: 12:15 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 224 |
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PACM Colloquium |
Topic: |
Active and Semi-Supervised Learning Theory |
Presenter: |
Rob Nowak, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Date: |
Monday, April 28, 2008, Time: 4:00 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 214 |
Abstract: |
Science is arguably the pinnacle of human intellectual achievement, yet the scientific discovery process itself remains an art. Human intuition and experience is still the driving force of the high-level discovery process: we determine which hypotheses and theories to entertain, which experiments to conduct, how data should be interpreted, when hypotheses should be abandoned, and so on. Meanwhile machines are limited to low-level tasks such as gathering and processing data. A grand challenge for scientific discovery in the 21st century is to devise machines that directly participate in the high-level discovery process. Towards this grand challenge, we must formally characterize the limits of machine learning. Statistical learning theory is usually based on supervised training, wherein a learning algorithm is presented with a finite set of i.i.d. labeled training examples. However, modern experimental methods often generate incredibly large numbers of unlabeled data for very little expense, while the task of labeling data is often painstaking and costly. Machine learning methods must leverage the abundance of unlabeled data in scientific problem domains. Active learning (AL) and semi-supervised learing (SSL) are two well known approaches to exploit unlabeled data. In both paradigms one has access to a large pool of unlabeled examples, and only a few labeled examples are provided or selected. AL is a sequential feedback process. Unlabeled examples that are predicted to have very informative labels, based on previously gathered labeled and unlabeled data, are selected for labeling. In SSL, labeled examples are randomly provided, without regard to potential informativeness. Today, little is known about theoretical limits of AL and SSL performance. Sparsity and complexity of the underlying data-generating distributions appear to play a central role in the performance of AL and SSL, and this talk will discuss some of the known theoretical results.
This work is joint with Rui Castro, Aarti Singh and Jerry Zhu. |
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Algebraic Geometry Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Brendan Hassett, Rice University |
Date: |
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 322 |
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Operations Research and Financial Engineering Colloquium |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Farid AitSahlia, University of Florida |
Date: |
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: E-219, E-Quad |
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Department Colloquium |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Stanislav Shvartsman, Princeton University |
Date: |
Wednesday, April 30, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
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Operations Research and Financial Engineering Colloquium |
Topic: |
Behavioral Portfolio Choice in Continuous Time |
Presenter: |
Xunyu Zhou, University of Oxford |
Date: |
Wednesday, April 30, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: E-219, E-Quad |
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MAY 2008 |
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Discrete Mathematics Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University and CMI |
Date: |
Thursday, May 1, 2008, Time: 2:15 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
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Topology Seminar |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Robert Lipshitz, Columbia University |
Date: |
Thursday, May 1, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Fine Hall 314 |
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Operations Research and Financial Engineering Colloquium |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Alex Lipton |
Date: |
Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: Location: E-219, E-Quad |
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Operations Research and Financial Engineering Colloquium |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Jean Michel Lasry |
Date: |
Thursday, May 8, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: E-219, E-Quad |
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Operations Research and Financial Engineering Colloquium |
Topic: |
TBA |
Presenter: |
Paulo Silva, University of Sao Paulo |
Date: |
Thursday, May 15, 2008, Time: 4:30 p.m., Location: E-219, E-Quad |
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