Events and Activities

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

Apr
02
2025

Film Screening: Green Border

2:00pm|Wolfensohn Hall

This film screening is curated by School of Social Science Member Leszek Koczanowicz and Visitor Dorota Koczanowicz.

Caught in the Belarus...

Apr
02
2025

Special Year Seminar I

Schubert Calculus on Peterson Varieties
Rebecca Goldin
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

We will discuss combinatorial and algebraic aspects of regular Hessenberg varieties, a large class of subvarieties of the flag variety G/B. For the special case of Peterson varieties, we show their equivariant structure constants are non-negative...

Apr
02
2025

Connections to Schubert Calculus Learning Seminar

Ind-Cluster Algebras & the Sato-Segal-Wilson Grassmannian
Christian Korff
3:30pm|Simonyi 101

There is a bijection between solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petiashvili (KP) hierarchy and points on an infinite Grassmannian, now often simply referred to as "the Sato Grassmannian". This connection is made via the Plücker coordinates, the expansion...

Apr
02
2025

University of Pennsylvania Astrophysics Seminar

Why a tiny neutrino particle inspired me to simulate and reconstruct the entire Universe
Adrian Bayer
3:30pm|U.Penn, David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 4E19

Massive neutrinos suppress the growth of cosmic structure on small, non-linear scales, making it crucial to go beyond a traditional power spectrum analysis to tighten constraints on their mass. By jointly analyzing data from multiple surveys and...

Apr
02
2025

Mathematical Conversations

Expansion and Robustness
6:00pm|Simons Hall Dilworth Room

Expansion is an important notion in graphs, and comes in several equivalent formulations, including (1) convergence of random walks, (2) having no small cuts, and (3) having a large spectral gap. I will talk about a higher dimensional generalization...

Apr
03
2025

Special Year Seminar II

Newton-Okounkov Bodies for Minuscule Homogeneous Spaces and Beyond
Charles Wang
10:00am|Simonyi 101

Given a triple (X,π,s) consisting of a homogeneous space X=G/P, a dominant weight π giving a projective embedding of X, and a reduced expression s for the minimal coset representative of w_0 in the parabolic quotient W/W_P, we construct a polytope...

Apr
03
2025

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

Deep Generative Models for Bayesian Inference in Astrophysics
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

Deep generative models offer powerful tools for solving astrophysical inference problems by enabling flexible representations of prior knowledge and likelihood functions. 

In the first part of the talk, I will discuss how generative models can be...