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Beyond Endoscopy will feature talks on Friday and Saturday by Ngô Bảo Châu, Robert Langlands, Ali Altuğ, Bill Casselman, Shuyang Cheng, Tasho Kaletha, Freydoon Shahidi, Jasmin Matz, and James Arthur. For the latest schedule, please see www.ias.edu...

This will be an informal working seminar, trying to understand the recent paper of Birkar, Cascini, Hacon and McKernan on the finite generation of canonical rings.

We start by stating the general form of the Minimal Model Conjecture and explain the relevance of some recent work of Bouksom-Demailly-Paun-Peternell. After that we describe the general picture of the proof of Hacon et al for the general type case.

We will discuss the ideas of the proof of the finite generation theorem, by looking at several special cases.

We will finish the sketch of the proof of existence of a geometrically meaningful compactification of the moduli space of canonically polarized smooth varieties.

In this talk I will try to motivate the interest and some of the mystery in the Ramsey numbers R(k), which are fundamental quantities in combinatorics. I will go on to discuss some recent progress on our understanding of these numbers and make some...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...