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Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

Sep
30
2009

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

Probabilistically Checkable Proofs (PCP): What Theoretical Computer Science Discovered About Mathematical Proofs
Hadar Dana Moshkovitz
2:00pm|S-101
Sep
30
2009

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

Group Representation Patterns in Digital Signal Processing
2:00pm|S-101

In the lecture I will explain how various fundamental structures from group representation theory appear naturally in the context of discrete harmonic analysis and can be applied to solve concrete problems from digital signal processing. We will...

Sep
30
2009

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

Perfect Numbers and Their Friends
4:00pm|S-101

Let s(n) denote the sum of the proper divisors of the natural number n. We call n *perfect* if n = s(n) and *amicable* if n = s(s(n) . We discuss some old problems and recent results related to perfect numbers, amicable numbers, and their...

Oct
02
2009

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

On Desingularization of Schemes
2:00pm|S-101

In this short talk I will formulate a functorial desingularization theorem for qe schemes of characteristic zero and explain why this result implies desingularization in other categories including formal schemes and analytic spaces. If time permits...

Oct
02
2009

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

Some Connections Between the (Weak) Regularity Lemma, Complexity Theory and Additive Combinatorics
2:00pm|S-101

I will discuss the relation between: (a) the Weak Regularity Lemma of Frieze and Kannan, a result in graph theory, (b) the "Dense Model Theorem" of Green, Tao and Ziegler, a result in additive combinatorics, that helps transfer results about dense...

Sep
21
2010

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

New Computations of the Riemann Zeta Function
2:00pm|S-101

I'll describe joint work (in progress) with Ghaith Hiary on implementing and running Hiary's O(t^1/3) algorithm for computing the zeta function and give some highlights of recent computations.

Sep
21
2010

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

Extended Scaling Relations for Weak-Universal Models
2:30pm|S-101

I will introduce some example of models of Statistical Mechanics that are called 'weak-universal' and I will discuss the role of the extended scaling relations for the critical indexes. Finally I will mention some results and some works in progress...

Sep
27
2010

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

p-Adic Galois Representations and (\varphi,\Gamma)-Modules
2:15pm|S-101

We will explain the equivalences between p-adic Galois representations and various types of (\varphi,\Gamma)-modules.

Sep
30
2010

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

Sparce Approximation of PSD Matrices
2:15pm|S-101

I will discuss the problem of approximating a given positive semidefinite matrix A , written as a sum of outer products vv^T , by a much shorter weighted sum in the same outer products. I will then mention an application to sparsification of finite...