Events and Activities

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

Oct
07
2024

Special Year Seminar

Combinatorial Inequalities and Combinatorial Interpretations: Part I
2:00pm|Rubenstein Commons | Meeting Room 5

In the first talk, I will give a broad survey of classical inequalities that arise in enumerative and algebraic combinatorics.  I will discuss how these inequalities lead to questions about combinatorial interpretations, and how these questions...

Oct
08
2024

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Subgroup Tests and Tailored Non-local Games
Michael Chapman
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

In the previous talk, we defined Subgroup Tests and the interactive proof system induced by them. In addition, we showed that if the Aldous--Lyons conjecture was true, then this interactive proof system contains only decidable languages. In this...

Oct
08
2024

Special Year Seminar

Combinatorial Inequalities and Combinatorial Interpretations: Part II
2:00pm|Wolfensohn Hall

In the second talk, I will concentrate on polynomial inequalities and whether the defect (the difference of two sides) has a combinatorial interpretation.  For example, does the inequality  $x^2+y^2 \geq 2xy$  have a combinatorial proof and what...

Oct
08
2024

Analysis and Mathematical Physics

Higher Dimensional Fourier Quasicrystals from Lee-Yang Varieties
Pavel Kurasov
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Fourier Quasicrystals (FQ) are defined as crystalline measures $$ \mu = \sum_{\lambda \in \Lambda} a_\lambda \delta_\lambda, \quad \hat{\mu} = \sum_{s \in S} b_s \delta_s, $$ so that not only $ \mu $ (and hence $ \hat{\mu} $) are tempered...