Opening Remarks and Introduction of Biology Session
Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of
Mathematics
Institute for Advanced Study
The Computational Universe
Leslie Valiant, Harvard University
Many natural and social phenomena may be viewed as inherently
computational; they evolve patterns of information that can be
described algorithmically and studied through computational models
and techniques. This workshop on the computational lens...
In this talk, we study two natural circle actions in Floer theory,
one on symplectic cohomology and one on the Hochschild homology of
the Fukaya category. We show that the geometric open-closed string
map between these two complexes is \(S^1\)...
One of the major themes of the analytic theory of automorphic forms
is the connection between equidistribution and subconvexity. An
early example of this is the famous result of Duke showing the
equidistribution of Heegner points on the modular...
Public Policy Lecture - Barbara Arnwine The State of Democracy and
Voting in a Post-Shelby Era November 19, 2014 Barbara Arnwine,
President and Executive Director of the national Lawyers' Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law, will discuss the state...
In 1984 Hirzebruch constructed the first examples of smooth
toroidal compactifications of ball quotients with non-nef canonical
divisor. In this talk, I will show that if the dimension is greater
or equal than three then such examples cannot exist...
The NASA Kepler Mission has demonstrated that planets with radii
larger than Earth yet smaller than Neptune are common around
Sun-like stars. Although Kepler has determined the physical sizes
of hundreds of such planets, we know virtually nothing...
Let \(Y\) be a smooth rational surface and let \(D\) be an
effective divisor linearly equivalent to \(-K_Y\), such that \(D\)
is a cycle of smooth rational curves. Such pairs \((Y,D)\) arise in
many contexts, for example in the study of...
