Colloquium

2018 May 17

Colloquium - Tzafriri lecture: Amitay Kamber (Hebrew university) "Almost-Diameter of Quotient Spaces and Density Theorems"

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2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location:
Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
A recent result of Lubetzky and Peres showed that the random walk on a $q+1$-regular Ramanujan graph has $L^{1}$-cutoff, and that its “almost-diameter” is optimal. Similar optimal results were proven by other authors in various contexts, e.g. Parzanchevski-Sarnak for Golden Gates and Ghosh-Gorodnik-Nevo for Diophantine approximations. Those results rely in general on a naive Ramanujan conjecture, which is either very hard, unknown, or even false in some situations. We show that a general version of those results can be proven using the density hypothesis of Sarnak-Xue.
2018 May 10

Colloquium: Zemer Kosloff (Hebrew University) - "Poisson point processes, suspensions and local diffeomprhisms of the real line"

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2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location:
Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
The study of the representations theoretic properties of the group of diffeormorphisms of locally compact non compact Riemmanian manifolds which equal to the identity outside a compact set is is linked to a natural quasi invariant action of the group which moves all points of a Poisson point process according to the diffeomorphism (Gelfand-Graev-Vershik and Goldin et al.). Neretin noticed that the local diffeomorphism group is a subgroup of a larger group which he called GMS and that GMS also acts in a similar manner on the Poisson point process.
2018 May 03

Colloquium - Dvoretzki lecture 1: Alexei Borodin (MIT) - "Integrable probability"

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2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location:
Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
The goal of the talk is to survey the emerging field of integrable probability, whose goal is to identify and analyze exactly solvable probabilistic models. The models and results are often easy to describe, yet difficult to find, and they carry essential information about broad universality classes of stochastic processes.
2018 Apr 26

Colloquium: Zabrodsky lectures - Camillo De Lellis (University of Zurich) - "The oriented Plateau problem and a question of Almgren"

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2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location:
Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
2018 Apr 12

Colloquium: Ron Peretz (Bar Ilan) - "Repeated Games with Bounded Memory - the Entropy Method"

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2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location:
Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
2018 Mar 22

Colloquium: Gilles Zemor (Université de Bordeaux) - "Additive Combinatorics in Field Extensions"

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3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location:
Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
Additive combinatorics enable one to characterize subsets S of elements in a group such that S+S has small cardinality. We are interested in linear analogues of these results, namely characterizing subspaces S in some algebras (mostly extension fields) such that the linear span of the set S^2 of products st, for s,t in S, has small dimension. We shall present a linear analogue of a theorem of Vosper which says that under the right conditions, a sufficiently small dimension for S^2 implies that S has a basis of elements in geometric progression.
2018 Jan 25

Ostrowski Prize Lecture - Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford) - Period maps and Diophantine problems

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2:15pm to 3:45pm
Location:
Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
2018 Jan 18

Colloquium: Menachem Magidor (HUJI) - "Can the continuum problem can be solved?"

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2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location:
Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
2018 Jan 11

Colloquium: Andrei Okounkov (Columbia) - "Catching monodromy"

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2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location:
Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
Monodromy of linear differential and difference equations is a very old and classical object, which may be seen as a far-reaching generalization of the exponential map of a Lie group. While general properties of this map may studied abstractly, for certain very special equations of interest in enumerative geometry, representation theory, and also mathematical physics, it is possible to describe the monodromy "explicitly", in certain geometric and algebraic terms. I will explain one such recent set of ideas, following joint work with M. Aganagic and R. Bezrukavnikov.
2018 Jan 04

Colloquium: Joachim König (Universität Würzburg) - "Specialization of Galois coverings over number fields"

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2:30pm to 3:30pm
Location:
Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
The inverse Galois problem (over number fields k) is one of the central problems in algebraic number theory. A classical approach to it is via specialization of Galois coverings: Hilbert’s irreducibility theorem guarantees the existence of infinitely many specialization values in k such that the Galois group of the specialization equals the Galois group of the covering. I will consider problems related to the inverse Galois problem which can be attacked using the specialization approach.

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Colloquium

Colloquium - Tzafriri lecture: Amitay Kamber (Hebrew university) "Almost-Diameter of Quotient Spaces and Density Theorems"

Location:

Colloquium: Zemer Kosloff (Hebrew University) - "Poisson point processes, suspensions and local diffeomprhisms of the real line"

Location:

Colloquium - Dvoretzki lecture 1: Alexei Borodin (MIT) - "Integrable probability"

Location:

Colloquium: Zabrodsky lectures - Camillo De Lellis (University of Zurich) - "The oriented Plateau problem and a question of Almgren"

Location:

Colloquium: Ron Peretz (Bar Ilan) - "Repeated Games with Bounded Memory - the Entropy Method"

Location:

Colloquium: Gilles Zemor (Université de Bordeaux) - "Additive Combinatorics in Field Extensions"

Location:

Ostrowski Prize Lecture - Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford) - Period maps and Diophantine problems

Location:

Colloquium: Menachem Magidor (HUJI) - "Can the continuum problem can be solved?"

Location:

Colloquium: Andrei Okounkov (Columbia) - "Catching monodromy"

Location:

Colloquium: Joachim König (Universität Würzburg) - "Specialization of Galois coverings over number fields"

Location:

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