• 2019 Jun 13

# No seminar (IMU annual meeting)

10:00am to 11:10am

Abstract: A Markov chain over a finite state space is said to exhibit the total variation cutoff phenomenon if, starting from some Dirac measure, the total variation distance to the stationary distribution drops abruptly from near maximal to near zero. It is conjectured that simple random walks on the family of $k$-regular, transitive graphs with a two sided $\epsilon$ spectral gap exhibit total variation cutoff (for any fixed $k$ and \$\epsilon). This is known to be true only in a small number of cases.
• 2019 Jun 13

# Annual conference of the Israel Mathematical Union 2019

9:00am to 7:00pm

### Program and Schedule (IMU website)

• Plenary morning session - Manchester Building, Hall 2.
• Parallel afternoon sessions - Sprinzak Building.
• Poster session - The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies building lobby.

• 2019 Jun 12

# NO SEMINAR Basic Notions

4:00pm to 5:15pm

## Location:

Ross 70
1) Abstract of Wayne's part: Today, in our modern world, we perceive the physical universe in mathematical terms; whether degrees on longitude and latitude on earth, or in units of space-time beyond our earthly horizons. This talk will present two ancient cuneiform tablets from Babylonia which offer a geometric impression of the physical world as experienced by ancient Babylonians. Comparisons will be made with a range of other ancient mathematical, geographic, and astronomical materials from the cuneiform Ancient Near East. 2) Abstract of Mourtaza's part:
• 2019 Jun 12

# פגישה עם תומאס ויוהאנס

3:00pm to 4:00pm

• 2019 Jun 12

# Seminar - Yoav Tamir

1:20pm to 2:20pm

• 2019 Jun 12

# Logic Seminar - Moshe Illouz

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63

Categoricity relative to order and order stability

In this talk we will show a generalization of the notion of stability and categoricity relative to the order. One of the natural questions is whether categoricity implies stability, just like in the regular case. We will show that this is not true generally, by using a result of Pabion on peano arithmetic. We are also going to see some specific cases where categoricity relative to the order implies stability.
• 2019 Jun 11

# Dynamics seminar: Genadi Levin " Transversality and transfer operators with applications to monotonicity of interval maps"

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Abstract. We consider families of holomorphic maps defined on subsets of the complex plane,
• 2019 Jun 11

# Dynamics Lunch: Yotam Smilansky "The space of quasicrystals."

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Abstract: Cut and project point sets are defined by identifying a strip of a fixed n-dimensional lattice (the "cut"), and projecting the lattice points in that strip to a d-dimensional subspace (the "project"). Such sets have a rich history in the study of mathematical models of quasicrystals, and include well known examples such as the Fibonacci chain and vertex sets of Penrose tilings.
• 2019 Jun 10

# NT & AG Seminar - Dan Edidin - An intrinsic characterization of cofree representations of reductive groups''

1:00pm to 2:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Title: An intrinsic characterization of cofree representations of reductive groups
• 2019 Jun 10

# Combinatorics: Eyal Karni (BIU) "Combinatorial high dimensional expanders"

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

CS bldg, room B-500, Safra campus
Speaker: Eyal Karni (BIU) Title: Combinatorial high dimensional expanders Abstract: An eps-expander is a graph G=(V,E) in which every set of vertices X where |X|<=|V|/2 satisfies |E(X,X^c)|>=eps*|X| . There are many edges that "go out" from any relevant set.