Video Lectures

In this talk I will describe the notion of "agreement tests" that are motivated by PCPs but stand alone as a combinatorial property-testing question. I will show that high dimensional expanders support agreement tests, thereby derandomizing direct...

I will explain that a geometric theory built upon the theory of complex surfaces can be used to understand wide variety of phenomena in five-dimensional supersymmetric theories, which includes the following: Classification of 5d superconformal field...

A theorist's dream is to show that hard instances/obstructions for an (optimal) algorithm can be used as gadgets to prove tight hardness reductions (which proves optimality of the algorithm). An example of such a result is that of Prasad Raghavendra...

Abstract: A new approach to solving random matrix models directly in the large N limit is developed. First, a set of numerical values for some low-pt correlation functions is guessed. The large N loop equations are then used to generate values of...

The purpose of the talk is to discuss a class of pseudo-metrics that can be defined on the set of objects of a triangulated category whose morphisms are endowed with a notion of weight. In case the objects are Lagrangian submanifolds (possibly...

This talk surveys the role of margins in the analysis of deep networks. As a concrete highlight, it sketches a perceptron-based analysis establishing that shallow ReLU networks can achieve small test error even when they are quite narrow, sometimes...

In this talk I will describe the notion of "agreement tests" that are motivated by PCPs but stand alone as a combinatorial property-testing question. I will show that high dimensional expanders support agreement tests, thereby derandomizing direct...

Abstract: We will describe work in progress in which we argue that a generalization of the procedure developed by Gao-Jafferis-Wall can allow one to see the entirety of the entanglement wedge. Gao-Jafferis-Wall demonstrated that one can see...

Consider the p-biased distribution over 0,1n, in which each coordinate independently is sampled according to a p-biased bit. A sharp-threshold result studies the behavior of Boolean functions over the hypercube under different p-biased measures, and...

The Hamiltonian formulation of mechanics has many advantages, but its standard presentation destroys manifest covariance. This can be avoided by using the "covariant phase formalism" of Iyer and Wald, but until recently this formalism has suffered...