COLLOQUIUMS
April 16, 2024 3:00 pmAn explicit understanding of the category of all (smooth, complex) representations of p-adic groups provides an important tool not just within representation theory. It also has applications to number theory...
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COLLOQUIUMS
April 3, 2024 3:00 pmA fundamental motivating problem in homotopy theory is the study of the stable homotopy groups of spheres. The mathematical object that binds stable homotopy groups together is a spectrum. In...
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COLLOQUIUMS
March 25, 2024 3:00 pmStarting with the "Leibniz" formula for π π/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + ... the special values of Dirichlet L-functions have long been a source of...
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COLLOQUIUMS
March 20, 2024 3:00 pmAround 10 years ago, Donaldson and Sun discovered that metric limits of Ricci positive Kähler–Einstein manifolds are algebraic varieties, and their metric tangent cones also underlie some algebraic structure. I will...
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COLLOQUIUMS
September 28, 2023 3:00 pmRandom surfaces are central paradigms in equilibrium statistical mechanics. As these surfaces become larger, their statistical behaviors become strongly dependent on how their boundaries are pinned down. This can lead...
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COLLOQUIUMS
September 11, 2023 3:00 pmI will begin the talk with an overview of the topic of quantitative homogenization for elliptic and parabolic equations. Homogenization refers to the procedure of replacing a very "noisy" equation--...
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COLLOQUIUMS
September 7, 2023 3:00 pmLarge ensembles of points with Coulomb interactions arise in various settings of condensed matter physics, classical and quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, random matrices and even approximation theory, and they give...
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SEMINARS, COLLOQUIUMS
September 14, 2022 12:00 pmOne of the crowning achievements of the field of Mechanism Design has been the design and usage of the so-called "Deferred Acceptance" matching algorithm. Designed in 1962 and awarded the...
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COLLOQUIUMS
May 5, 2022 4:30 pmwill speak on: Higher normal functions and irrationality proofs Apéry’s 1978 proof of the irrationality of ζ(3) relied upon two sequences of rational numbers whose ratio limits to ζ(3) very...
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HARVARD-MIT-BU-BRANDEIS-NORTHEASTERN, COLLOQUIUMS
December 9, 2021 4:30 pmThe dynamical degree of an invertible self-map of projective space is an asymptotic measure of the algebraic complexity of the iterates of the map. This numerical invariant controls many aspects...
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