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  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Wednesday, May 21, 2014. 4:15pm
Speaker:
M.S. Narasimhan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

The lectures will deal with the notion of "stability" introduced by Mumford in Geometric Invariant Theory (G.I.T).

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Wednesday, May 14, 2014. 4:15pm
Speaker:
M.S. Narasimhan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research & Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

The lectures will deal with the notion of "stability" introduced by Mumford in Geometric Invariant Theory (G.I.T).

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Friday, May 9, 2014. 9:30am
Speaker:
Gerhard Huisken (Tübingen)

You can learn more about Professor Huisken at: https://www.mfo.de/about-the-institute/staff/prof.-dr.-gerhard-…

  • Lectures
Beatrice Yormark Lecture
Date
Thursday, May 8, 2014. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton University)
  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Tuesday, April 22, 2014. 4:30pm
Speaker:
George Lusztig (MIT)
  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Monday, April 21, 2014. 4:30pm
Speaker:
George Lusztig (MIT)
  • Lectures
Public Lecture
Date
Wednesday, April 16, 2014. 7:30pm
Speaker:
Étienne Ghys (UMPA, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

In 1878, the Russian mathematician Chebyshev gave a talk in Paris entitled “On cutting cloth”.

  • Conferences & Workshops
Date
Saturday, February 1, 2014. 10:00am
  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Friday, January 24, 2014. 3:30pm
Speaker:
Jacob Fox (Stanford University)

We describe a simple and yet surprisingly powerful probabilistic technique that shows how to find, in a dense graph, a large subset of vertices in which all (or almost all) small subsets have many…

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Wednesday, January 22, 2014. 3:30pm
Speaker:
Jacob Fox (Stanford University)

 In this talk, I will explain the ideas of the proof and recent joint work with David Conlon and Yufei Zhao simplifying the proof.

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Friday, January 17, 2014. 3:30pm
Speaker:
Jacob Fox (Stanford University)

In this talk, I will survey recent progress in understanding the quantitative aspects of these lemmas and their applications.

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Tuesday, November 19, 2013. 4:00pm
Speaker:
Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

If G is a group acting on a space X and \mu is a probability measure, we can talk of a measure \nu on X as being "stationary" relative to \mu, the case of an invariant measure being a very special…

  • Lectures
Kai Lai Chung Lecture
Date
Thursday, November 7, 2013. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Ruth J. Williams (UC San Diego)

Stochastic models of processing networks arise in a wide variety of applications in science and engineering, e.g., in high-tech manufacturing, transportation, telecommunications, computer systems…

  • Lectures
Public Lecture
Date
Tuesday, November 5, 2013. 7:30pm
Speaker:
Cedric Villani (University of Lyon, Paris)

It is often said that mathematics is the language of the Universe, present everywhere around us.

  • Lectures
Distinguished Lecture
Date
Monday, October 28, 2013. 2:30pm
Speaker:
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (IHES)

For almost a century, spinors and Dirac Operators play a central role in Physics.