Minerva mini-course

The Fernholz Foundation has endowed the mathematics department with funds to bring leading researchers to collaborate at Princeton. This mission is fulfilled with two robust and exciting programs: the Minerva Lecture Series and the Minerva Distinguished Visitor.

The Minerva Lecture Series began in 2012 and has been an outstanding success. Each series consists of three lectures over the course of a week and numerous occasions for the speaker to work with faculty and students.

In light of the great response the Minerva Speakers received in the department, the Minerva Distinguished Visitor program was inaugurated in 2014. The Distinguished Visitor is a semester-long appointment to the department allowing top mathematicians to pursue and share ongoing projects with colleagues at Princeton.

Oct 04

Alex Lubotzky, Weizmann Institute & Minerva Distinguished Visitor

High dimensional expanders and Ramanujan complexes
Fine Hall Common Room / -

The seminal work of Howard Garland in the 60's, proving the conjecture of Serre on vanishing cohomology of lattices in $p$-adic simple Lie groups reveals that high… See Full Abstract

Oct 06

Pierre Raphael, University of Cambridge & Minerva Distinguished Visitor

Singularity formation in non linear evolution equations
Fine Hall 110 / -

The description of singularity formation in non linear evolution equations has attracted a considerable amount of interest in the last fifty years, with a tremendous… See Full Abstract

Oct 25

Alex Lubotzky, Weizmann Institute & Minerva Distinguished Visitor

From Ramanujan to Gromov
Fine Hall Common Room / -

In this talk we will show how the Ramanujan complexes lead to solution of the geometric, and then the topological, Gromov overlapping problem. The technical tool is… See Full Abstract

Nov 01

Alex Lubotzky, Weizmann Institute & Minerva Distinguished Visitor

Property testing and LTC codes
Fine Hall Common Room / -

Property testing is an area in computer science dealing with problems of the following kind: can we (randomly) test only a small amount of the full data to reveal… See Full Abstract

Nov 15

Alex Lubotzky, Weizmann Institute & Minerva Distinguished Visitor

Groups' approximation and (non) sofic groups
Fine Hall Common Room / -

An interesting subarea of group theory deals with the possible approximations of groups by (almost) representations to the finite symmetric groups or finite… See Full Abstract