• 2019 Mar 26

# Dynamics Seminar: Oren Louidor (Technion) A Scaling limit for the Cover Time of the Binary Tree.

2:15pm to 3:15pm

Abstract:
• 2019 Mar 27

# Logic Seminar - Shlomo Eshel

11:00am to 1:00pm

Ross 63
• 2019 Mar 27

# Analysis Seminar: Ofer Zeitouni (Weizmann) "Perturbations of non-normal matrices"

12:00pm to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Title: Perturbations of non-normal matrices Abstract: Eigenvalues of Hermitian matrices are stable under perturbations in the sense that the $l_p$ norm of the difference between (ordered) eigenvalues is bounded by the Schatten norm of the perturbation. A similar control does not hold for non-Normal matrices. In the talk, I will discuss
• 2019 Mar 27

# Set Theory Seminar - Ralf Schindler (Munster), "Paradoxical" sets with no well-ordering of the reals

2:00pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Ross 63
Title: "Paradoxical" sets with no well-ordering of the reals Abstract: By a Hamel basis we mean a basis for the reals, R, construed as a vecor space over the field of rationals. In 1905, G. Hamel constructed such a basis from a well-ordering of R. In 1975, D. Pincus and K. Prikry asked "whether a Hamel basis exists in any model in which R cannot be well ordered." About two years ago, we answered this positively in a joint paper with M. Beriashvili, L. Wu, and L. Yu. In more recent joint work, additionally with J. Brendle and F. Castiblanco we constructed a model of
• 2019 Mar 28

# Colloquium: Alexei Entin (TAU) - Sectional monodromy and the distribution of irreducible polynomials

2:30pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
Abstract: Many classical problems on the distribution of prime numbers (and related objects with multiplicative origin) admit function field analogues which can be proved in the large finite field limit. The first results of this type were obtained in the 70's by Swinnerton-Dyer and S. D. Cohen and in recent years there has been a resurgence of activity in this field.
• 2019 Mar 31

# Zlil Sela and Alex Lubotzky "Model theory of groups"

Repeats every week every Sunday until Sat Jun 29 2019 except Sun Apr 21 2019.
11:00am to 1:00pm

Zlil Sela and Alex Lubotzky "Model theory of groups" In the first part of the course we will present some of the main results in the theory of free, hyperbolic and related groups, many of which appear as lattices in rank one simple Lie groups We will present some of the main objects that are used in studying the theory of these groups, and at least sketch the proofs of some of the main theorems. In the second part of the course, we will talk about the model theory of lattices in high rank simple Lie groups.
• 2019 Mar 31

# Ari Shnidman "Geometric expressions for derivatives of L-functions of automorphic forms" (after Yun and Zhang)

Repeats every week every Sunday until Sun Jun 23 2019 except Sun Apr 21 2019.
2:00pm to 4:00pm

Yun and Zhang compute the Taylor series expansion of an automorphic L-function over a function field, in terms of intersection pairings of certain algebraic cycles on the so-called moduli stack of shtukas. This generalizes the Waldspurger and Gross-Zagier formulas, which concern the first two coefficients. The goal of the seminar is to develop the background necessary to state their formula, and then indicate the structure of the proof. If time allows, we may also discuss applications to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for elliptic curves over function fields.
• 2019 Apr 01

# Combinatorics: Raphy Yuster (U. Haifa) TBA

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

CS B-500, Safra campus
• 2019 Apr 01

# Special course: A. Goncharov (Yale, visiting Einstein Institute of Mathematics) "Quantum geometry of moduli spaces of local systems on surfaces and representation theory"

Repeats every week every Monday until Mon Apr 29 2019 except Mon Apr 22 2019.
4:00pm to 6:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Abstract. This is a joint work with Linhui Shen. A decorated surface is an oriented surface with punctures and a finite collection of special points on the boundary, considered modulo isotopy. Let G be a split adjoint group. We introduce a moduli space Loc(G,S) of G-local systems on a decorated surface S, which reduces to the character variety when S has no boundary, and quantize it.
• 2019 Apr 02

# Dynamics lunch: Lauritz Streck "A rigidity sequence construction on the circle"

12:00pm to 1:00pm

## Location:

Manchester faculty club