2018 Apr 16

Special talk: Yonatan Harpaz (Paris 13) - "Towards a universal property for Hermitian K-theory"

Lecturer:

Yonatan Harpaz (Paris 13)
4:30pm to 5:30pm

Location:

Ross 70

Abstract: Hermitian K-theory can be described as the "real" analogue of algebraic K-theory, and plays a motivic role similar to the role played by real topological K-theory in classical stable homotopy theory. However, the abstract framework surrounding and supporting Hermitian K-theory is less well understood than its algebraic counterpart, especially in the case when 2 is not assumed to be invertible in the ground ring.

2018 Jun 27

Analysis Seminar: Barry Simon (Caltech) "Heinävarra’s Proof of the Dobsch–Donoghue Theorem"

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Ross Building, Room 70
Abstract: In 1934, Loewner proved a remarkable and deep theorem about matrix monotone functions. Recently, the young Finnish mathematician, Otte Heinävarra settled a 10 year old conjecture and found a 2 page proof of a theorem in Loewner theory whose only prior proof was 35 pages. I will describe his proof and use that as an excuse to discuss matrix monotone and matrix convex functions including, if time allows, my own recent proof of Loewner’s original theorem.
2018 May 29

Yuri Lima (Paris 11): Symbolic dynamics for non-uniformly hyperbolic systems with singularities

2:15pm to 3:15pm

Location:

Ross 70
Symbolic dynamics is a tool that simplifies the study of dynamical systems in various aspects. It is known for almost fifty years that uniformly hyperbolic systems have good'' codings. For non-uniformly hyperbolic systems, Sarig constructed in 2013 good'' codings for surface diffeomorphisms. In this talk we will discuss some recent developments on Sarig's theory, when the map has discountinuities and/or critical points, such as multimodal maps of the interval and Bunimovich billiards.
2018 May 08

Dynamics Seminar: Yinon Spinka (TAU): Finitary codings of Markov random fields

2:15pm to 4:15pm

Location:

Ross 70
Let X be a stationary Z^d-process. We say that X is a factor of an i.i.d. process if there is a (deterministic and translation-invariant) way to construct a realization of X from i.i.d. variables associated to the sites of Z^d. That is, if there is an i.i.d. process Y and a measurable map F from the underlying space of Y to that of X, which commutes with translations of Z^d and satisfies that F(Y)=X in distribution. Such a factor is called finitary if, in order to determine the value of X at a given site, one only needs to look at a finite (but random) region of Y.
2018 Apr 12

Special talk: Yonatan Harpaz (Paris 13) - "Small extensions in algebra and topology"

Lecturer:

Yonatan Harpaz (Paris 13)
1:15pm to 2:15pm

Location:

Ross 70
Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss the notion of small extensions in its various incarnations, from torsors under abelian groups to square-zero extensions of algebras. We will then focus on the somewhat less familiar case of small extensions of ∞-categories. Our main goal is to make this abstract concept concrete and intuitive through a variety of examples. In particular, we will advocate the point of view that small extensions of  ∞-categories offer a unifying perspective in understanding many constructions appearing in obstruction, classification, and deformation theoretic problems
2018 Apr 16

HD-Combinatorics Special Day on Grassman Expanders and Unique Games (organized by Irit Dinur)

(All day)

Location:

Room 130, IIAS, Feldman Building, Givat Ram
2018 Apr 11

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Ross 70A
2018 Apr 15

GAME THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH SEMINAR: Ron Peretz, Bar Ilan University: "The Rate of Innovation Diffusion in Social Networks (joint with Itai Arieli, Yakov Babichenko, and Peyton H Young)"

1:30pm to 2:30pm

Location:

Elath Hall, 2nd floor, Feldman Building, Edmond Safra Campus
2018 May 22

Dynamics Lunch: Tsviqa Lakrec (Huji)

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Manchester lounge
2018 Apr 11

Logic Seminar - Shahar Oriel - "The infinite random simplicial complex"

11:00am to 1:00pm

Location:

Ross 63
This talk will be a review of a paper by Andrew Brooke-Taylor and Damiano Testa
2017 Jan 11

Logic seminar - Daniel Palacin, "Superrosy division rings"

10:00pm to 12:00am

Location:

Ross 70
In this talk we analyze superrosy division rings, i.e. division rings which admit a well-behaved ordinal valued rank function on definable sets that behaves like a rudimentary notion of dimension. Examples are the quaternions, superstable division rings (which are known to be algebraically closed fields) and more generally supersimple division rings which are commutative.
2017 Mar 01

Logic seminar - Yair Hayut, "Weak Prediction Principles"

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Ross 70
Weak Prediction Principles Speaker: Yair Hayut Abstract: Jensen's diamond is a well studied prediction principle. It holds in L (and other core models), and in many cases it follows from local instances of GCH. In the talk I will address a weakening of diamond (due to Shaleh and Abraham) and present Abraham's theorem about the equivalence between weak diamond and a weak consequence of GCH. Abraham's argument works for successor cardinals. I will discuss what is known and what is open for inaccessible cardinals. This is a joint work with Shimon Garti and Omer Ben-Neria.
2017 Nov 15

Logic Seminar - Shimon Garti - " Length of Boolean algebras"

11:00am to 1:00pm

Location:

Math 209
We shall prove that there is a sequence of Boolean algebras for which the ultraproduct of the lengths divided by an ultrafilter is strictly less than the length of the product algebra. This is a joint work with Saharon Shelah.
2018 May 09

Logic Seminar - Immanuel Benporat - "Arbault sets"

11:00am to 1:00pm

Location:

Ross 63
Arbault sets (briefly, A-sets) were first introduced by Jean Arbault in the context of Fourier analysis. One of his major results concerning these sets,asserts that the union of an A-set with a countable set is again an A-set. The next obvious step is to ask what happens if we replace the word "countable" by א_1. Apparently, an א_1 version of Arbault's theorem is independent of ZFC. The aim of this talk would be to give a proof (as detailed as possible) of this independence result. The main ingredients of the proof are infinite combinatorics and some very basic Fourier analysis.
2018 May 23

Logic Seminar - Alejandro Poveda Ruzafa - "A Magidor-like study of $C^{(n)}$-cardinals"

11:00am to 1:00pm

Location:

Ross 63
The notion of reflection plays a central role in modern Set Theory since the descovering of the well-known Lévy and Montague \textit{Reflection principle}. For any $n\in\omega$, let $C^{(n)}$ denote the class of all ordinals $\kappa$ which correctly interprets the $\Sigma_n$-statements of the universe, with parametes in $V_\kappa$.