2018 May 02

# Analysis Seminar: Bo'az Klartag "Convex geometry and waist inequalities"

12:00pm to 1:00pm

## Location:

room 70, Ross Building
Abstract: We will discuss connections between Gromov's work on isoperimetry of waists and Milman's work on the M-ellipsoid of a convex body. It is proven that any convex body K in an n-dimensional Euclidean space has a linear image K_1 of volume one satisfying the following waist inequality: Any continuous map f from K_1 to R^d has a fiber f^{-1}(t) whose (n-d)-dimensional volume is at least c^{n-d}, where c > 0 is a universal constant. Already in the case where f is linear, this constitutes a slight improvement over known results.
2018 Mar 28

# Analysis Seminar: TBA

12:00pm to 1:00pm

2018 Jun 06

# Analysis Seminar: Michal Pnueli "Dynamics in a Hamiltonian Impact System"

12:00pm to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross Building, Room 70

Abstract:
Hamiltonian impact systems are dynamical systems in which there are two main mechanisms which dictate the system’s behavior - Hamilton’s equations which govern the motion inside the impact system domain, and the billiard reflection rule which governs the motion upon reaching the domain boundary. As the dynamics in impact systems are piecewise smooth by nature due to the
collisions with the boundary, many of the traditional tools used in the analysis of Hamiltonian
2018 Feb 05

# HD-Combinatorics special day: Stability and property testing (organized by Oren Becker)

(All day)

## Location:

Room 130, IIAS, Feldman Building, Givat Ram
2018 Feb 26

# HD-Combinatorics Special Day on On Random groups and property T (organized by Izhar Oppenheim)

(All day)

## Location:

Room 130, IIAS, Feldman Building, Givat Ram

10:00-11:00: Izhar Oppenheim, Introduction to Property (T)

11:30-12:30Izhar Oppenheim, Introduction to Random Groups

14:00-16:00Izhar Oppenheim, Property (T) and hyperbolicity for random groups in the permutation model
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
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.
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.
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.