2018 Jan 31

Analysis Seminar: Balazs Rath "Self-organized criticality in dynamic random graph models"

12:00pm to 1:00pm

2018 Jun 21

Colloquium: Erdos lecture - Canceled

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.?
2016 Jun 09

Joint Amitsur Algebra&NT Seminar: Shai Haran (Technion), "New foundations for geometry"

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location:

Manchester Building (Ross 63), Jerusalem, Israel
*** Please note the LOCATION *** We shall give a simple generalization of commutative rings. The category GR of such generalized rings contains ordinary commutative rings (fully, faithfully), but also the "integers" and the "residue field" at a real or complex place of a number field ; the "field with one element" F1 (the initial object of GR) ; the "Arithmetical Surface" (the categorical sum of the integers Z with them self). We shall show this geometry sees the real and complex places of a number field K : the valuation sub GR of K correspond to the finite and
2018 Jun 28

Colloquium: Barry Simon (Caltech) - "More Tales of our Forefathers"

2:30pm to 3:30pm

Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
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. This talk is in two parts. The second part will be given from 4:00 to 5:00 (not 5:30) in the Basic Notions seminar.
2018 Jun 14

Colloquium - Zuchovitzky lecture: Lior Yanovski (HUJI) "Homotopy cardinality and the l-adic analyticity of Morava-Euler characteristic"

2:30pm to 3:30pm

Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
A finite set has an interesting numerical invariant - its cardinality. There are two natural generalizations of "cardinality" to a (homotopy) invariant for (suitably finite) spaces. One is the classical Euler characteristic. The other is the Baez-Dolan "homotopy cardinality". These two invariants, both natural from a certain perspective, seem to be very different from each other yet mysteriously connected. The question of the precise relation between them was popularized by John Baez as one of the "mysteries of counting".
2016 Apr 21

Amitsur Algebra: Konstantin Golubev (HU)

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location:

Manchester Building (room 209), Jerusalem, Israel
Title: Spectral approach to the chromatic number of a simplicial complex Abstract: In this talk, we'll summarize results obtained in recent years in a pursuit for spectral bounds for the chromatic number of a simplicial complex. As the principal application, we'll show that Ramanujan complexes serve as family of explicitly constructed complexes with large girth and large chromatic number. We'll also present other results, such as a bound on the expansion and a bound on the mixing of a complex, and refer to open questions. Based on joint work with S.Evra, A.Lubotzky and O.Parzanchevski.
2016 Jan 07

Amitsur Algebra: Gili Schul (Hebrew U): Rapid expansion in finite simple groups

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location:

Manchester Building (room 209), Jerusalem, Israel
Title: Rapid expansion in finite simple groups Abstract: We show that small normal subsets $A$ of finite simple groups expand very rapidly -- namely, $|A^2| \ge |A|^{2-\epsilon}$, where $\epsilon >0$ is arbitrarily small. Joint work with M. W. Liebeck and A. Shalev
2018 Jan 25

Special seminar: Sylvian Cappell (NYU) "What can be the fixed point sets of a given finite group acting on a non-simply-connected compact space?"

10:30am to 11:30am

Location:

Ross 70
We will report on a joint work with Shmuel Weinberger of U. of Chicago & Min Yan of Hong Kong U. of Sci. & Tech.
2018 Apr 22

Geometric, Topological and Computational Aspects of High-Dimensional Combinatorics

Sun, 22/04/2018 (All day) to Thu, 26/04/2018 (All day)

Location:

Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2016 Jun 16

Amitsur Algebra: Gili Golan, "The generation problem in Thompson group F"

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location:

Manchester Building (room 209), Jerusalem, Israel
We show that the generation problem in Thompson group F is decidable, i.e., there is an algorithm which decides if a finite set of elements of F generates the whole F. The algorithm makes use of the Stallings 2-core of subgroups of F, which can be defined in an analogue way to the Stallings core of subgroups of a free group. An application of the algorithm shows that F is a cyclic extension of a group K which has a maximal elementary amenable subgroup B. The group B is a copy of a subgroup of F constructed by Brin.
2016 Apr 07

Amitsur Algebra: Ayala Byron (HUJI), "Definable fields in the free group"

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location:

Manchester Building (room 209), Jerusalem, Israel
Abstract: In the early 2000s Sela proved that all non-abelian free groups share a common first-order theory. Together with R. Sklinos, we use tools developed in his work to show that no infinite field is definable in this theory. In this talk we will survey the line of proof for a formal solution theorem for a simple sort of definable sets, that have a structure of a hyperbolic tower, and use it to characterize definable sets that do not carry a definable structure of an abelian group.
2018 Apr 25

Analysis Seminar: Latif Eliaz "The Essential Spectrum of Schroedinger Operators on Graphs"

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Room 70, Ross Building

It is known that the essential spectrum of aSchrödinger operator H on\ell^2(\mathbb{N})  is equal to the union of the spectra of right limits ofH. The naturalgeneralization of this relation to \mathbb{Z}^n  is known to hold as well.In this talk we study thepossibility of generalizing this characterization of \sigma_{ess}(H)  tographs. We show that the general statement fails, while presenting natural families of models where it still holds.

2018 Jan 30

Action Now Seminar: Weikun He (HUJI), "Discretized sum-product estimates in higher dimension"

2:30pm to 3:30pm

Location:

IIAS, HUJI, Feldman Building, Room 130
2018 Jan 30

Action Now Seminar: Oren Becker (HUJI), "Stability and Invariant Random Subgroups"

11:30am to 12:30pm

Location:

IIAS, HUJI, Feldman Building, Room 130
2018 Apr 12

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

2:30pm to 3:30pm

Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem