Video Lectures

Various motivations recently led Mendel and Naor, Hatami and Kalai to study functions in tail spaces - i.e. function all of whose low level Fourier coefficients vanish. I will discuss the questions and conjectures that they posed and our recent work...

Jo Bovy, John N. Bahcall Fellow in the School of Natural Sciences, talks about stars, planets, and gases that make up galaxies, the dark matter that holds them together, and the history of our own Milky Way galaxy in this talk geared for children...

Dr. Libby O'Connell, chief historian for History Channel, will discuss American culinary history and food traditions in this talk drawn from her new book The American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites. Dr. O'Connell's lecture explores key...

In contrast to the two dimensional case, in dimension $d \geq 3$ averaging operators on the $d-1$-sphere using finitely many rotations, i.e. averaging operators of the form $Af(x)= |S|^{-1} \sum_{\theta \in S} f(s x)$ where $S$ is a finite subset of...

Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction, A.M. Homes' sixth novel, May We Be Forgiven, is a darkly comic tale of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transformation. Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his...

An important theme in homogenous dynamics is that two parameter diagonalizable actions have much more rigidity than one parameter actions. One manifestation of this rigidity is rigidity of joinings of such actions. Joinings are an important concept...

De Fernex and Hacon associated a multiplier ideal sheaf to a pair $(X, \mathfrak a^c)$ consisting of a normal variety and a closed subscheme, which generalizes the usual notion where the canonical divisor $K_X$ is assumed to be Q-Cartier. I will...

The minimal log discrepancy is a measure of singularities of pairs. While akin to the log canonical threshold, it turns out to be much more difficult to study, with many questions still open. I will discuss a question about the boundedness of...

The minimal log discrepancy is a measure of singularities of pairs. While akin to the log canonical threshold, it turns out to be much more difficult to study, with many questions still open. I will discuss a question about the boundedness of...