Seminars Sorted by Series

Categories and Knot Invariants

Mar
06
2008

Categories and Knot Invariants

Knot Homology and Braid Group Actions on Derived Categories of Coherent Sheaves
Joel Kamnitzer
10:30am|S-101

Due to the pioneering work of Khovanov, there has been a lot of recent interest in certain knot homology theories. I will explain a program to construct these knot homology theories using braid group actions on derived categories of coherent sheaves...

Celebrating Emmy Noether

May
06
2016

Celebrating Emmy Noether

Symmetry and conservation laws: Noether's contribution to physics
Karen Uhlenbeck
2:30pm|S-101

A single result of Noether's is widely credited in physics papers as fundamental to the modern way of approaching physics. Two basic ideas are those of symmetry on the one side and the notion of quantities such as energy preserved under flows on the...

May
06
2016

Celebrating Emmy Noether

Emmy Noether: breathtaking mathematics
Georgia Benkart
4:15pm|S-101

By the mid 1920s, Emmy Noether had made fundamental contributions to commutative algebra and to the theory of invariants. Her crowning achievement from this period was "Noether's Theorem," establishing deep connections between conserved quantities...

Celebration In Honor of the Frank C. and Florence S. Professorship

Oct
13
2022

Celebration In Honor of the Frank C. and Florence S. Professorship

THOUGHTS ABOUT ANDREW OGG’S (TORSION) CONJECTURE
Barry C. Mazur
2:15pm|Simonyi Hall101

Ogg’s celebrated conjecture can be paraphrased as saying that rational points (on the modular curves that parametrize torsion points on elliptic curves) exist if and only if there is a good geometric reason for them to exist. Ogg’s mathematical...

Oct
13
2022

Celebration In Honor of the Frank C. and Florence S. Professorship

MODULAR CURVES, MODULAR FORMS AND HECKE OPERATORS: OLD AND NEW
Winnie Li
3:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

A. Ogg is well-known for his numerous accomplishments: the Grothendieck-Ogg-Shafarevich formula; the N\’eron-Ogg-Shafarevich criterion; Ogg’s formula for the conductor of an elliptic curve; the rational torsion conjecture for elliptic curves; and...

Celebration of Women in Mathematics

May
12
2021

Celebration of Women in Mathematics

Interview with Dr. Monica Vazirani
Monica Vazirani
1:00pm

Dr. Monica Vazirani is a professor at UC Davis.  She received her PhD from UC Berkeley in 1999, after which she had an NSF postdoc she spent at UC San Diego and UC Berkeley, as well as postdoctoral positions at MSRI and Caltech.  Dr. Vazirani's...

Character Varieties, Dynamics and Arithmetic

Nov
10
2021

Character Varieties, Dynamics and Arithmetic

Dynamics on character varieties
William Goldman
10:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

In these two talks, I will describe how the classification of locally homogeneous geometric structures (closely related to flat connections) leads to interesting dynamical systems.

Many interesting dynamical systems arise from the classification of...

Nov
17
2021

Character Varieties, Dynamics and Arithmetic

Dynamics on character varieties
William Goldman
10:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

In these two talks, I will describe how the classification of locally homogeneous geometric structures (closely related to flat connections) leads to interesting dynamical systems.

Many interesting dynamical systems arise from the classification of...

Dec
01
2021

Character Varieties, Dynamics and Arithmetic

Integral points on character varieties
Junho Peter Whang
10:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access
In this talk, we discuss the Diophantine study of relative SL2-character varieties of surfaces. In particular, we prove that the integral points on these varieties are effectively finitely generated in a precise sense, and in particular their...
Dec
08
2021

Character Varieties, Dynamics and Arithmetic

Effective mapping class group dynamics
Francisco Andres Arana-Herrera
10:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access
Motivated by counting problems for closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces, I will present a family of new results describing the dynamics of mapping class groups on Teichmüller spaces and spaces of closed curves of closed surfaces.
Dec
15
2021

Character Varieties, Dynamics and Arithmetic

The dynamics of Aut(Fn) actions on group presentations and representations
Alexander Lubotzky
10:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Several different areas of group theory, topology, and geometry have led to the study of the action of $Aut(Fn)$—the automorphism group of the free group on $n$ generators—on $Hom(Fn, G)$ when $G$ is either finite, compact or a simple Lie group. We...

Clay Research Conference - an Online Event

Sep
30
2021

Clay Research Conference - an Online Event

Gauge Theory and the Analytic Approach to Geometric Langlands
Edward Witten
4:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

**Limited seating is available in Simonyi Lecture Hall and is by invitation only for IAS members or faculty. Remote access will be given to those that register.  Please contact Naomi Kraker at admin@claymath.org to receive the zoom link for the...

Sep
30
2021

Clay Research Conference - an Online Event

The Work of Buckmaster, Isett and Vicol and Presentation of the Clay Research Award to Tristan Buckmaster, Philip Isett and Vlad Vicol
Camillo De Lellis and Thomas Clay
5:10pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

**Limited seating is available in Simonyi Lecture Hall and is by invitation only for IAS members or faculty. Remote access will be given to those that register.  Please contact Naomi Kraker at admin@claymath.org to receive the zoom link for the...

Cluster-Polyfold Setup for Langrangian Floer Homology

Collaborative Workshop in Algebraic Geometry

Jun
24
2024

Collaborative Workshop in Algebraic Geometry

9:00am|Simonyi Hall 101
Sponsored by the Minerva Research Foundation

Collaborative workshop to support women and gender-expansive individuals in Algebraic Geometry was held at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ the week of June 24-28, 2024. 

The purpose of the...

Combinatorics of Fundamental Physics Workshop

Nov
18
2024

Combinatorics of Fundamental Physics Workshop

Organizers: Nima Arkani-Hamed, June Huh, Thomas Lam, and Bernd Sturmfels

This event aims to foster collaboration between mathematicians and physicists. The focus will be on the intersection of combinatorial geometry and fundamental physics, covering...

Nov
18
2024

Combinatorics of Fundamental Physics Workshop

Organizers: Nima Arkani-Hamed, June Huh, Thomas Lam, and Bernd Sturmfels

This event aims to foster collaboration between mathematicians and physicists. The focus will be on the intersection of combinatorial geometry and fundamental physics, covering...

Nov
18
2024

Combinatorics of Fundamental Physics Workshop

Organizers: Nima Arkani-Hamed, June Huh, Thomas Lam, and Bernd Sturmfels

This event aims to foster collaboration between mathematicians and physicists. The focus will be on the intersection of combinatorial geometry and fundamental physics, covering...

Nov
18
2024

Combinatorics of Fundamental Physics Workshop

Organizers: Nima Arkani-Hamed, June Huh, Thomas Lam, and Bernd Sturmfels

This event aims to foster collaboration between mathematicians and physicists. The focus will be on the intersection of combinatorial geometry and fundamental physics, covering...

Nov
18
2024

Combinatorics of Fundamental Physics Workshop

Organizers: Nima Arkani-Hamed, June Huh, Thomas Lam, and Bernd Sturmfels

This event aims to foster collaboration between mathematicians and physicists. The focus will be on the intersection of combinatorial geometry and fundamental physics, covering...