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Dec
09
2024

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Efficient Batch Verification: Recent Progress and Challenges
Ron Rothblum
10:30am|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Suppose Alice wants to convince Bob of the correctness of k NP statements. Alice could send the k witnesses to Bob, but as k grows the communication becomes prohibitive. Is it possible to convince Bob using smaller communication? This is the...

Dec
09
2024

Special Year Seminar

Tits's Dream: Buildings Over F1 and Combinatorial Flag Varieties
Oliver Lorscheid
2:30pm|Rubenstein Commons | Meeting Room 5

The theme of the lecture is the notion of points over F1, the field with one element. Several heuristic computations led to certain expectations on the set of F1-points: for example the Euler characteristic of a smooth projective complex variety X...

Dec
10
2024

Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Open Gromov-Witten Invariants in Genus Zero
Amanda Hirschi
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Apart from the usual transversality problems in defining curve counting invariants, when defining the open Gromov-Witten invariants of a Lagrangian one has to deal with the fact that the moduli spaces have boundary. Thus a homological (virtual)...

Dec
10
2024

Analysis and Mathematical Physics

Spectral Minimal Partitions: Local vs Global Minimality
Gregory Berkolaiko
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

In this overview talk we will explore a variational approach to the problem of Spectral Minimal Partitions (SMPs).  The problem is to partition a domain or a manifold into k subdomains so that the first Dirichlet eigenvalue on each subdomain is as...