Past Events

Date
Friday, January 11, 2019. 4:00pm
Speaker:
John Pardon (Harvard University)

Abstract: There exist continuous finite group actions on three-manifolds which are not smoothable, in the sense that they are not smooth with respect to any smooth structure.…

  • Conferences & Workshops
Date
Thursday, December 13, 2018. 8:00am

 In honor of Amir Dembo's 60th Birthday, organizers from Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and Cambridge will bring 30 invited speakers to campus for this very special event honoring our…

Date
Thursday, November 15, 2018. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Colin Guillarmou (Université Paris-Sud)

I will survey some recent results on the boundary rigidity problem and the marketed  length spectrum rigidity in negative curvature (Anosov case) and explain how analytic methods manage to…

Date
Monday, November 12, 2018. 4:30pm
Speaker:
Colin Guillarmou (Université Paris-Sud)

Professor Guillarmou will explain how new techniques coming from harmonic and microlocal analysis allow one to give a sense to a discrete spectrum for flows with hyperbolicity, and some…

Date
Monday, October 29, 2018. 4:00pm
Speaker:
June Huh (IAS)

Why do natural and interesting sequences often turn out to be log-concave?