Video Lectures

In the minimum cost set cover problem, a set system is given as input, and the goal is to find a collection of sets with minimum cost whose union covers the universe. This NP-hard problem has long been known to admit logarithmic approximations...

Ever since Furstenberg proved his multiple recurrence theorem, the limiting behaviour of multiple ergodic averages along various sequences has been an important area of investigation in ergodic theory. In this talk, I will discuss averages along...

The paper will present a survey of the scholarly correspondence of over 13,000 letters of the founder of European studies of Islam, Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), which is freely available in digitized form in the repository of the Library and...

A version of the polynomial Szemer´edi theorem was shown to hold in finite fields in [BLM05]. In particular, one has patterns ${x, x + P1(n), . . . , x + Pk(n)}$ (1) for polynomials with zero constant term in large subsets of finite fields. When the...

The works of Furstenberg and Bergelson-Leibman on the Szemeredi theorem and its polynomial extension motivated the study of the limiting behavior of multiple ergodic averages of commuting transformations with polynomial iterates. Following important...

In this talk, based on joint work with Gonzalo Contreras, I will briefly sketch the proof of the existence of global surfaces of section for the Reeb flows of closed 3-manifolds satisfying a condition à la Kupka-Smale: non-degeneracy of the closed...

I will present results establishing cancellation in short sums of arithmetic functions (in particular the von Mangoldt and divisor functions) twisted by polynomial exponential phases, or more general nilsequence phases. These results imply the...

We will discuss multilinear variants of Weyl's inequality for the exponential sums arising in pointwise convergence problems related to the Furstenberg-Bergelson-Leibman conjecture. We will also illustrate how to use the multilinear Weyl inequality...

Astrophysical black holes are surrounded by accretion disks, jets, and coronae consisting of magnetized, (near)-collisionless relativistic plasma. They produce observable high-energy radiation and it is currently unclear where and how this emission...

In this talk we present a natural generalization of a sumset conjecture of Erdos to higher orders, asserting that every subset of the integers with positive density contains a sumset $B_1+\ldots +B_k$ where $B_1, \ldots , B_k$ are infinite. Our...