2018 Nov 26

# Combinatorics: Ron Adin, BIU, "Cyclic permutations, shuffles and quasi-symmetric functions"

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Rothberg CS bldg, room B500, Safra campus, Gival Ram
Speaker: Ron Adin, Bar-Ilan University Title: Cyclic permutations, shuffles and quasi-symmetric functions Abstract: By a theorem of Stanley, the distribution of descent number over all the shuffles of two permutations depends only on the descent numbers of these permutations. For a quantitative version of this result and its cyclic analogue, we use a new cyclic counterpart of Gessel's ring of quasi-symmetric functions, together with an unusual homomorphism and a mysterious binomial identity. No previous acquaintance assumed.
2018 Nov 27

# Dynamics Seminar: Yan Dolinsky

12:00pm to 1:00pm

## Location:

Manchester faculty club
2019 Jan 02

# Analysis Seminar: Martin Fraas (Virginia) "A many-body index for quantum charge transport"

12:00pm to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross building, room 70
Title: A many-body index for quantum charge transport
2018 Nov 21

# Logic Seminar - Saharon Shelah

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63
קשת איוּם מוֹדל כוֹלל

the spectrum of the existence of a universal model

תמצית/abstract:
קיוּם מוֹדל כולל של תורה בעצמה נתוּנה זו שאלה טבעית בתוֹרת המוֹדלים ובתוֹרת הקבוּצוֹת. נטפל בתנאים מספיקים לאי קיוּם, אין צוֹרך בידיעוֹת מוּקדמוֹת.

The existence of a universal model (of a theory T in a cardinal lambda)  is a natural question in model theory and set theory.  We shall deal with new sufficient conditions for non-existence.
No need of previous knowledge
2018 Dec 26

# Logic Seminar - Antongiulio Fornasiero

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63

Generic derivations on o-minimal structures
Antongiulio Fornasiero

A derivation on a field K is a map d from K to K such that  d(x + y) = d(x) + d(y) and d(x y) = x d(y) + d(x) y.

Given an o-minimal structure M in a language L, we introduce the notion L-derivation, i.e derivation compatible with L. For example, if M is the field of reals with exponentiation, then we further require that the derivation d satisfies d(exp x) = exp(x) d(x).

2018 Nov 28

# Logic Seminar - Spencer Unger

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63

A constructive solution to Tarski's circle squaring problem
Spencer Unger
2018 Dec 03

# Combinatorics: Kai Fong Ernest Chong, SUTD Singapore, "Stress algebras on simplicial complexes"

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Rothberg CS bldg, room B500, Safra campus, Givat Ram
Speaker: Kai Fong Ernest Chong, SUTD, Singapore Title: Stress algebras on simplicial complexes Abstract:
2018 Nov 20

# T&G: Gangotryi Sorcar (Hebrew University), On the topology of the Teichmuller space of negatively curved Riemannian metrics

2:00pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Room 209, Manchester Building, Jerusalem
This talk is a survey on results concerning the Teichmuller space of negatively curved Riemannian metrics on M. It is defined as the quotient space of the space of all negatively curved Riemannian metrics on M modulo the space of all isotopies of M that are homotopic to the identity. This space was shown to have highly non-trivial homotopy when M is real hyperbolic by Tom Farrell and Pedro Ontaneda in 2009.
2018 Nov 21

# Set Theory Seminar: Yair Hayut "Chang's Conjecture"

2:00pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Ross 63
Title: Chang's Conjecture (joint with Monroe Eskew) Abstract: I will review some consistency results related to Chang's Conjecture (CC). First I will discuss some classical results of deriving instances of CC from huge cardinals and the new results for getting instances of CC from supercompact cardinals, and present some open problems. Then, I will review the consistency proof of some versions of the Global Chang's Conjecture - which is the consistency of the occurrence many instances of CC simultaneously. We will aim to show the consistency of the statement: (\mu^+,\mu) -->> ( u^+,
2018 Nov 19

# NT&AG: Gaku Liu (Max Planck Institute of Mathematics), "Semistable reduction in characteristic 0"

2:30pm to 4:00pm

## Location:

Room 70A, Ross Building, Jerusalem, Israel
We address the semistable reduction conjecture of Abramovich and Karu: we prove that every surjective morphism of complex projective varieties can be modified to a semistable one. The key ingredient is a combinatorial result on triangulating lattice Cayley polytopes. Joint work with Karim Adiprasito and Michael Temkin. The lecture consists of two parts: first 30 minutes an algebra-geometric introduction by Michael Temkin, and then a one hour talk by Gaku Liu about the key combinatorial result.
2018 Nov 20

# Dynamics Lunch: Jiange Li "Sumsets and entropy" after Ruzsa

12:00pm to 1:00pm

## Location:

Manchester faculty club
2018 Dec 05

# Logic Seminar - Omer Ben-Neria

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63

Hjorth's theory of turbulence

The purpose of this talk is to survey several results from Hjorth's theory of turbulent polish group actions.

We will start by discussing certain classification problems associated with Borel equivalence relations, and present the notions of Borel reductions and smooth relations, and the E_0 dichotomy theorem of Harrington-Kechris-Louveau.

2018 Nov 14

# Logic Seminar - Yair Hayut

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63

Global Chang's Conjecture

Yair Hayut - (joint with Monroe Eskew)

For $\kappa < \lambda$ infinite cardinals let us consider the following generalization of the Lowenheim-Skolem theorem:
"For every algebra with countably many operations over $\lambda^+$ there is a sub-algebra with order type exactly $\kappa^+$".

We will discuss the consistency and inconsistency of some global versions of this statement and present some open questions.
2018 Dec 19

# Logic Seminar - Udi Hrushovski

11:00am to 1:00pm

## Location:

Ross 63

Model theory and geometry of fields with automorphism

I will review some of the model-theoretic geometry of difference varieties, and some open problems.
A difference variety is defined by polynomial equations with an additional operator $\si$ interpreted as a field automorphism.
2018 Nov 19

# NT & AG Lunch: Sazzad Biswas "Local gamma factors, and converse problems"

1:00pm to 2:00pm

## Location:

Faculty lounge, Math building
Let F be a non-Archimedean local field. In the representation theory of GL_n(F), one of the basic problems is to characterize its irreducible representations up to isomorphism. There are many invariants (e.g., epsilon factors, L-functions, gamma factors, depth, etc) that we can attach to a representation of GL_n(F). Roughly, the local converse problem is to find the smallest subcollection of twisted local \gamma-factors which classifies the irreducible admissible representations of GL_n(F) up to isomorphism.