School of Mathematics

Three Knot-Theoretic Perspectives on Algebra

Zsuzsanna Dancso
University of Toronto; Institute for Advanced Study
September 21, 2011 - 2:00pm

Legendrian Invariants in Rational Homology Spheres

Joan Licata
Institute for Advanced Study
September 20, 2011 - 4:15pm

Limit Theorems for Theta Sums and Applications

Francesco Cellarosi
Princeton University; Institute for Advanced Study
September 20, 2011 - 4:00pm

Concentration Compactness Method for Global Well-Posedness for the Energy-Supercritical Nonlinear Wave Equation

Aynur Bulut
The University of Texas at Austin; Institute for Advanced Study
September 20, 2011 - 2:30pm

Pseudo-Holomorphic Curves and Approximations of Zero Entropy Hamiltonian Systems by Periodic Ones

Barney Bramham
Institute for Advanced Study
September 20, 2011 - 2:15pm

Stability and Instability of Near-Integrable Hamiltonian Systems

Abed Bounemoura
Institute for Advanced Study
September 20, 2011 - 2:00pm

Existence of Small Families of t-wise Independent Permutations and t-Designs Via Local Limit Theorems

Shachar Lovett
Institute for Advanced Study
September 20, 2011 - 10:30am

We show existence of rigid combinatorial objects that previously were not known to exist. Specifically, we consider two families of objects:

1. A family of permutations on n elements is t-wise independent if it acts uniformly on tuples of t elements. Constructions of small families of t-wise independent permutations are known only for \( t=1,2,3 \) . We show that there exist small families of t-wise independent permutations for all t , whose size is \( n^{O(t)} \) .


Workshop on Sheaf-Theoretic Methods in Symplectic Topology

Institute for Advanced Study
May 9, 2011 - 8:30am

Serre's Conjectures on the Number of Rational Points of Bounded Height

Per Salberger
Chalmers University of Technology
April 28, 2011 - 4:30pm

JOINT IAS/PU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR

We give a survey of recent results on conjectures of Heath-Brown and Serre on the asymptotic density of rational points of bounded height. The main tool in the proofs is a new global determinant method inspired by the local real and p-adic determinant methods of Bombieri-Pila and Heath-Brown.