Past Events

Mar

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Igor Rodnianski, Princeton University

On the Boltzmann limit of a homogeneous Fermi gas

Mar

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Jason Starr, Stony Brook University

Rational simple connectedness and Serre's "Conjecture II"

Mar

B. Bakker, Princeton University

Hodge polynomials of moduli spaces of sheaves on K3 surfaces

Mar

Department Colloquium

Yosi Keller, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)

Probabilistic approach to high order assignment problems

Feb

Differential Geometry & Geometric Analysis Seminar

Jeffrey Case, University of California, Santa Barbara

Conformally Warped Manifolds and quasi-Einstein metrics

Feb

PU/IAS Number Theory

Joachim Schwermer, University of Vienna, The Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics

On Eisenstein series and the cohomology of arithmetic groups

Feb

Topology Seminar

Margaret Doig, Princeton University

Heegaard Floer Homology and Knot Surgeries

Feb

Algebraic Topology Seminar

Rick Jardine, University of Western Ontario

Pointed torsors and Galois groups

Feb

Ergodic Theory & Statistical Mechanics

Vlad Vysotsky, University of Delaware

Limit theorems for sticky particle systems and positivity of integrated random walks

Feb

Department Colloquium

Andrew Granville, Universite de Montreal

Pretentiousness in the analytic theory of numbers

Feb

Graduate Student Seminar

Francesco Cellarosi

Infinite Ergodic Theory and Continued Fractions

Feb

Ronen Basri, Weizmann Institute of Science

Detection of Faint Edges in Noisy Images

Feb

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Sourav Chatterjee, University of California - Berkeley, Courant Institute

Superconcentration

Feb

Differential Geometry & Geometric Analysis Seminar

Hans-Joachim Hein, Princeton University

Complete Calabi-Yau metrics from rational elliptic surfaces

Feb

PU/IAS Number Theory

William Duke, UCLA

Real quadratic analogues of values of the j-function at CM points

Feb

Algebraic Topology Seminar

Paul Arne Oestver, University of Oslo

Motivic invariants of the rational numbers

Feb

Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Hamed Hatami, Princeton University

Friedgut's theorem for the continuous cube

Feb

Ergodic Theory & Statistical Mechanics

Zeev Rudnick, Tel-Aviv University, IAS

Nodal sets for eigenfunctions of the Laplacian and lattice points on circles and spheres

Feb

Analysis Seminar

Stephane Nonnenmacher, IAS

Quantized Poincarè maps in chaotic scattering

Feb

Konstantin Mischaikow, Mathematics and BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers University

A Database Schema for the Global Dynamics of Multiparameter Nonlinear Systems

Feb

Differential Geometry & Geometric Analysis Seminar

Nam Le, Columbia University

Optimal conditions for the extension of the mean curvature flow

Feb

PU/IAS Number Theory

Vinayak Vatsal, University of British Columbia

Some Remarks on quadratic Twists of L-Functions

Feb

Topology Seminar

Douglas C. Ravenel, University of Rochester

The proof of the Periodicity Theorem

Feb

Algebraic Topology Seminar

Mike Hill, University of Virginia

Equivariant Computations and the Gap Theorem

Feb

Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Natalia Mosina, The City University of New York, LaGuardia

Graph/Group Random Elements and Applications to Group-Based Cryptanalysis

Feb

Ergodic Theory & Statistical Mechanics

Artur Avila, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) and Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (Brasil)

Convergence of renormalizations

Feb

Topology Seminar

Alan Reid, University of Texas at Austin

Grothendieck's problem for 3-manifold groups

Feb

Department Colloquium

Mike Hopkins, Harvard University

The Kervaire invariant problem

Feb

Bill Browder, Princeton University

History of the Kervaire invariant problem

Feb

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Alain-Sol Sznitman, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)

Disconnection and Random Interlacements