Events and Activities

Explore current and upcoming events and activities happening at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Oct
29
2024

Joint IAS/PU Groups and Dynamics Seminar

Gap in Critical Exponent
Omri Solan
4:30pm|Simonyi 101

Teichmuller dynamics give us a nonhomogeneous example of an action of SL_2(R) on a space H_g preserving a finite measure. This space is related to the moduli space of genus g curves. The SL_2(R) action on H_g has a complicated behavior: McMullen...

Oct
30
2024

Special Year Seminar I

Complexity of Log-concave Inequalities in Matroids
Swee Hong Chan
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

A sequence of nonnegative real numbers $a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n$, is log-concave if $a_i^2 \geq a_{i-1}a_{i+1}$ for all $i$ ranging from 2 to $n-1$. Examples of log-concave inequalities range from inequalities that are readily provable, such as the...

Oct
31
2024

MUNSEE LANGUAGE & HISTORY SYMPOSIUM

4th Annual MUNSEE LANGUAGE & HISTORY SYMPOSIUM LUNAAPAHKIING, HULUNIIXSUWAAKAN, LUNAAPEEWAK  (Munsee Land, Munsee Language, Munsee People)
9:30am

This event continues and deepens ongoing relationships with Lunaapeewak (Lunaape people) from Munsee-speaking tribal nations, this year widening the circle to include Unami-speaking language keepers, as they gather with Princeton students, staff...

Oct
31
2024

Special Year Seminar II

MM-curves
Mario Kummer
10:00am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

For an embedded stable curve over the real numbers we introduce a hyperplane arrangement in the tangent space of the Hilbert scheme. The connected components of its complement are labeled by embeddings of the graph of the stable curve to a compact...