Video Lectures

*Please excuse the first 45seconds of video, due to technical issues, the video breaks up* This is joint work with Michael Magee. We combine concepts from random matrix theory and free probability together with ideas from the theory of commutator...

The algorithm indicated in the title builds on Luks's classical framework and introduces new group theoretic and combinatorial tools. In the first talk we outline the algorithm and state the core group theoretic and algorithmic ingredients. Some of...

In 2000 Eliashberg-Polterovich introduced the concept of positivity in contact geometry. The notion of a positive loop of contactomorphisms is central. A question of Eliashberg-Polterovich is whether $C^0$-small positive loops exist. We give a...

We discuss our results on global existence and convergence of solutions to the gradient flow equation for the Yang-Mills energy functional over a closed, four-dimensional, Riemannian manifolds: If the initial connection is close enough to a minimum...

Stochastic quantization equations are evolutionary PDEs driven by space-time white noises. They are proposed by physicists in the 80s as the natural dynamics associated to the (Euclidean) quantum field theories. We will discuss the recent progress...

I will talk about convex-cocompact representations of finitely generated free group $F_g$ into $\mathrm{PSL}(2,\mathbb C)$. First I will talk about Schottky criterion. There are many ways of characterizes Schottky group. In particular, convex hull...

I want to sketch some algebraic and geometric tools to solve a variety of extremal problems surrounding Minkowski sums of polytopes and colorful simplicial depth.

We study the two-party communication complexity of the geometric problem of finding an approximate Brouwer fixed-point of a composition of two Lipschitz functions $g \circ f$, where Alice knows $f$ and Bob knows $g$. We prove an essentially tight...

Join Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, Scott Tremaine, Richard Black Professor in the School, and Members Doron Kushnir and Nadia Zakamska for a discussion of the recent Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave...

In joint work with Emmanuel Kowalski and Philippe Michel, we prove two different estimates on sums of coefficients of modular forms---one related to L-functions and another to the level of distribution. A key step in the argument is a careful...