Past Events

Feb

Department Colloquium

Francois Labourie, Universite de Paris-Sud

Finite and infinite representations of surface groups and cross ratios

Feb

A. Bayer, University of Utah

Polynomial Bridgeland stability conditions and wall-crossing

Feb

Claus Sorensen, Princeton University

Potential level-lowering for GSp(4)

Feb

David G. Stork, Ricoh Innovations and Stanford University

Did the great masters 'cheat' using optics? Computer vision and graphics addresses a bold theory in art history

Feb

Alex Gorodnik, University of Bristol and Princeton University

Regularity of conjugacy for actions of large groups

Feb

PU/IAS Number Theory

Kevin Ford, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Prime Chains and Pratt trees

Feb

Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Jakob Fox, Princeton University

Ramsey numbers of sparse graphs and hypergraphs

Feb

Ergodic Theory & Statistical Mechanics

Mikko Stenlund, Courant Institute, NYU

Quenched Central Limit Theorem for Random Toral Automorphism

Feb

Graduate Student Seminar

Sucharit Sarkar, Princeton University

An Outline of the h-Cobordism Theorem

Feb

Department Colloquium

Erez Lapid, Hebrew University

Volume of polytopes, operator analogues, and Arthur's trace formula

Feb

Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Dimitris Bertsimas, MIT

Prediction of health care costs via data-mining and algorithmic discovery of medical knowledge

Feb

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Ravi Vakil, Stanford University

Reimagining universal covers and fundamental groups in algebraic and arithmetic geometry

Feb

Moses Charikar, Princeton University

New Insights into Semidefinite Programming for Combinatorial Optimization

Feb

Analysis Seminar

Alex Himonas, University of Notre Dame

Non-uniform dependence for the Periodic CH equation

Feb

Differential Geometry & Geometric Analysis Seminar

Alice Chang, Princeton University

Compactness of conformally compact Einstein manifolds of dimension 3+1

Feb

PU/IAS Number Theory

Xiaoqing Li, SUNY at Buffalo

The subconvexity bounds for L-functions

Feb

Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Daniel Král', Charles University, Prague

The circular chromatic index of graphs of high girth

Feb

Graduate Student Seminar

Sasha Fradkin, Princeton University

The Probabilistic Method and A Classical Result of Erdos

Feb

Department Colloquium

Bill Goldman, University of Maryland

Projective geometry on manifolds

Feb

Peter Tingley, University of California, Berkeley

Three combinatorial models for affine sl(n) crystals, with applications to cylindric plane partitions

Feb

Kai-Wen Lan, Harvard University

Arithmetic compactifications of PEL-type Shimura varieties

Feb

Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Ramon van Handel, California Institute of Technology

Hidden Markov models, Markov chains in random environments, and systems theory

Dec

Topology Seminar

Martin Bridson, Imperial College

Subdirect products of surfaces, homological finiteness, and residually-free groups

Dec

Differential Geometry & Geometric Analysis Seminar

Yuxin Ge, Université Paris-Est Créteil - UPEC

On the $\sigma_2$-scalar curvature and its application

Dec

Topology Seminar

Ben Webster, IAS

Components of Springer fibers and Khovanov's arc algebra

Dec

Ergodic Theory & Statistical Mechanics

Andrei Negut, Princeton University

Attractors with Large Invisible Parts

Dec

Statistical Mechanics Seminar

Thomas Spencer, IAS

Random matrices, statistical mechanics and hyperbolic supersymmetry

Dec

Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania

Optimality in Large-Scale Multiple Testing

Dec

Iain Couzin, Princeton University

Collective motion and decision-making in animal groups

Dec

Differential Geometry & Geometric Analysis Seminar

Pedram Safari, Harvard University

Gluing Monopoles