2019 Aug 05

# Basic Notions: Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania) “On singularities of spectral curves and SCFTs of class S”

11:00am to 12:00pm

Ross 70
2020 Jan 16

# Colloquium Dvoretzky lecture: Sylvia Serfaty (NYU): Systems of points with Coulomb interactions

2:30pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem

Title: Systems of points with Coulomb interactions
Abstract:  Large ensembles of points with Coulomb interactions arise in various settings of condensed matter physics, classical and quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, random matrices and even approximation theory, and they give rise to a variety of questions pertaining to analysis, Partial Differential Equations and probability.
2019 Dec 19

# Colloquium Zabrodsky lecture 1: Paul Seidel (MIT)- The symplectic topologist as a dynamicist

2:30pm to 3:30pm

## Location:

Manchester Building (Hall 2), Hebrew University Jerusalem
The development of symplectic topology was motivated by Hamiltonian mechanics. It has been particularly successful in addressing one specific aspect, namely fixed points and periodic points of discrete-time Hamiltonian systems. I will explain how such applications work, both in older and more recent examples.
2019 Jun 27

# Groups and Dynamics seminar: Asaf Katz (Chicago) - An application of Margulis' inequality to effective equidistribution.

11:30am to 12:45pm

Abstract: Ratner's celebrated equidistribution theorem states that the trajectory of any point in a homogeneous space under a unipotent flow is getting equidistributed with respect to some algebraic measure. In the case where the action is horospherical, one can deduce an effective equidistribution result by mixing methods, an idea that goes back to Margulis' thesis.

2019 Jun 16

5:00pm to 6:00pm

2019 Jun 23

# Special Talk - Saharon Shelah

4:00pm to 6:00pm

## Location:

Manchester Building, Room 110

Simplicity and universality

Fixing a complete first order theory T, countable for transparency, we had known quite well for which cardinals T has a saturated model. This depends on T of course - mainly of
whether it is stable/super-stable. But the older, precursor notion of having
a universal notion lead us to more complicated answer, quite partial so far, e.g
the strict order property and even SOP_4 lead to having "few cardinals"
(a case of GCH almost holds near the cardinal). Note  that eg GCH gives a complete
2019 Jun 18

# Dynamics and probability: David Jerison (MIT) - Localization of eigenfunctions via an effective potential

2:00pm to 3:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
We discuss joint work with Douglas Arnold, Guy David, Marcel Filoche and Svitlana Mayboroda.
Consider for the operator $L = -\Delta + V$ with periodic boundary conditions, and more
generally on the manifold with or without boundary. Anderson localization, a significant feature
of semiconductor physics, says that the eigenfunctions of $L$ are exponentially localized with
high probability for many classes of random potentials $V$. Filoche and Mayboroda introduced the
2019 Jun 17

# NT & AG Lunch: Michael Temkin "The explicit local and global class field theory"

1:00pm to 2:00pm

## Location:

Faculty lounge

I will finish the theory of Lubin-Tate, and start the last topic of this series
-- Drinfeld's elliptic modules and CFT of function fields.
2019 Jun 30

# Minicourse: Jared Weinstein (Boston University "Geometrization of the local Langlands program"

2:00pm to 4:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Prof. Jared Weinstein (Boston University) will give a series of 3 talks titled
"Geometrization of the local Langlands program"
2019 Jul 01

# Minicourse: Jared Weinstein (Boston University "Geometrization of the local Langlands program"

2:00pm to 4:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Prof. Jared Weinstein (Boston University) will give a series of 3 talks titled
"Geometrization of the local Langlands program"
2019 Jun 26

# Minicourse: Jared Weinstein (Boston University "Geometrization of the local Langlands program"

2:00pm to 4:00pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Prof. Jared Weinstein (Boston University) will give a series of 3 talks titled
"Geometrization of the local Langlands program"
2019 Jun 16

# Special logic seminar - Tomer Schlank

12:00pm to 2:00pm

## Location:

Sprintzak 114
Ultra products and asimpitotical phenomenon in homotopy theory
2019 Jun 27

# Basic Notions: Hillel Furstenberg (HUJI) : "Affine (Convex) representations and harmonic functions on symmetric spaces." Part 2

4:00pm to 5:15pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Classical group representation theory deals with group actions on linear spaces; we consider group actions on compact convex spaces, preserving topological and convex structure. We focus on irreducible actions, and show that for a large class of groups - including connected Lie groups - these can be determined. There is a close connection between this and the theory of bounded harmonic functions on symmetric spaces and their boundary values.
2019 Jun 20

# Basic Notions: Hillel Furstenberg (HUJI) : "Affine (Convex) representations and harmonic functions on symmetric spaces." Part 1

4:00pm to 5:15pm

## Location:

Ross 70
Classical group representation theory deals with group actions on linear spaces; we consider group actions on compact convex spaces, preserving topological and convex structure. We focus on irreducible actions, and show that for a large class of groups - including connected Lie groups - these can be determined. There is a close connection between this and the theory of bounded harmonic functions on symmetric spaces and their boundary values.