2018 Nov 22

# Colloquium: Spencer Unger (HUJI) - A constructive solution to Tarski's circle squaring problem

2:30pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
In 1925, Tarski asked whether a disk in R^2 can be partitioned into finitely many pieces which can be rearranged by isometries to form a square of the same area. The restriction of having a disk and a square with the same area is necessary. In 1990, Laczkovich gave a positive answer to the problem using the axiom of choice. We give a completely explicit (Borel) way to break the circle and the square into congruent pieces. This answers a question of Wagon. Our proof has three main components. The first is work of Laczkovich in Diophantine approximation.
2019 Apr 11

# Colloquium: Ohad Feldheim - Lattice models of magnetism: from magnets to antiferromagnets

2:30pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
Abstract: The Ising model, and its generalisation, the Potts model, are two classical graph-colouring models for magnetism and antiferromagnetism. Albeit their simple formulation, these models were instrumental in explaining many real-world magnetic phenomena and have found various applications in physics, biology and computer science. While our understanding of these models as modeling magnets has been constantly improving since the early twentieth century, little progress was made in treatment of Potts antiferromagnets.
2019 May 30

# Colloquium: Alon Nishry (TAU) - Zeros of random power series

2:30pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
Abstract: A central problem in complex analysis is how to describe zero sets of power series in terms of their coefficients. In general, it is difficult to obtain precise results for a given function. However, when the function is defined by a power series, whose coefficients are independent random variables, such results can be obtained. Moreover, if the coefficients are complex Gaussians, the results are especially elegant. In particular, in this talk I will discuss some different notions of "rigidity" of the zero sets.
2018 Dec 13

# Erdos Lectures: Igor Pak (UCLA) - Counting integer points in polytopes

Igor Pak (UCLA)
2:30pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
Given a convex polytope P, what is the number of integer points in P? This problem is of great interest in combinatorics and discrete geometry, with many important applications ranging from integer programming to statistics. From a computational point of view it is hopeless in any dimensions, as the knapsack problem is a special case. Perhaps surprisingly, in bounded dimension the problem becomes tractable. How far can one go? Can one count points in projections of P, finite intersections of such projections, etc?
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 May 16

# Landau Lecture 1: From Betti cohomology to crystalline cohomology (colloquium)

## Lecturer:

Prof. Luc Illusie (Université Paris-Sud)
2:30pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem

2018 Dec 27

# Colloquium: Alexander Yom Din (Caltech) - From analysis to algebra to geometry - an example in representation theory of real groups

2:30pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
Representation theory of non-compact real groups, such as SL(2,R), is a fundamental discipline with uses in harmonic analysis, number theory, physics, and more. This theory is analytical in nature, but in the course of the 20th century it was algebraized and geometrized (the key contributions are by Harish-Chandra for the former and by Beilinson-Bernstein for the latter). Roughly and generally speaking, algebraization strips layers from the objects of study until we are left with a bare skeleton, amenable to symbolic manipulation.
2018 Oct 21

# Feldenkrais and Mathematics

Sun, 21/10/2018 (All day) to Tue, 23/10/2018 (All day)

## Location:

Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2019 May 19

# The 22nd Midrasha Mathematicae : Equidistribution, Invariant Measures and Applications

Sun, 19/05/2019 (All day) to Fri, 24/05/2019 (All day)

## Location:

Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2019 Mar 11

# Combinatorics Seminar: Yuval Filmus (Technion) "Structure of (almost) low-degree Boolean functions"

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

CS bldg, room B500, Safra campus, Givat Ram
Speaker: Yuval Filmus, Technion Title: Structure of (almost) low-degree Boolean functions Abstract: Boolean function analysis studies (mostly) Boolean functions on {0,1}^n. Two basic concepts in the field are *degree* and *junta*. A function has degree d if it can be written as a degree d polynomial. A function is a d-junta if it depends on d coordinates. Clearly, a d-junta has degree d. What about the converse (for Boolean functions)? What if the Boolean function is only *close* to degree d? The questions above were answered by Nisan-Szegedy, Friedgut-Kalai-Naor, and Kindler-Safra.
2019 Jan 15

# Dynamics Lunch: Tsviqa Lakrec "Recurrence properties of random walks on ﬁnite volume homogeneous manifold"

12:00pm to 1:00pm

2018 Oct 23

# Dynamics Lunch: Amir Algom "On \alpha \beta sets."

12:00pm to 1:00pm

## Location:

Manchester faculty club
Let $\alpha, \beta$ be elements of infinite order in the circle group. A closed set K in the circle is called an \alpha \beta set if for every x\in K either x+\alpha \in K or x+\beta \in K. In 1979 Katznelson proved that there exist non-dense \alpha \beta sets, and that there exist \alpha \beta sets of arbitrarily small Hausdorff dimension. We shall discuss this result, and a more recent result of Feng and Xiong, showing that the lower box dimension of every \alpha \beta set is at least 1/2.
2019 Jan 10

# Joram Seminar: Larry Guth (MIT) - Introduction to decoupling

2:30pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
Decoupling is a recent development in Fourier analysis. In the late 90s, Tom Wolff proposed a decoupling conjecture and made the first progress on it. The full conjecture had seemed well out of reach until a breakthrough by Jean Bourgain and Ciprian Demeter about five years ago. Decoupling has applications to problems in PDE and also to analytic number theory. One application involves exponential sums, sums of the form $$\sum_j e^{2 pi i \omega_j x}.$$
2018 Jun 28

# Basic Notions: Barry Simon "More Tales of our Forefathers (Part II)"

4:00pm to 5:30pm

## Location:

Manchester Hall 2
This is not a mathematics talk but it is a talk for mathematicians. Too often, we think of historical mathematicians as only names assigned to theorems. With vignettes and anecdotes, I'll convince you they were also human beings and that, as the Chinese say, "May you live in interesting times" really is a curse. Among the mathematicians with vignettes are Riemann, Newton, Poincare, von Neumann, Kato, Loewner, Krein and Noether.
2018 Jun 26

# Amitsur Symposium: Malka Schaps - "Symmetric Kashivara crystals of type A in low rank"

11:30am to 12:30pm

## Location:

Manchester House, Lecture Hall 2
The basis of elements of the highest weight representations of affine Lie algebra of type A can be labeled in three different ways, my multipartitions, by piecewise linear paths in the weight space, and by canonical basis elements. The entire infinite basis is recursively generated from the highest weight vector of operators f_i from the Chevalley basis of the affine Lie algebra, and organized into a crystal called a Kashiwara crystal. We describe cases where one can move between the different labelings in a non-recursive fashion, particularly when the crystal has some symmetry.