Past Events

Date
Thursday, October 5, 2023. 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Speaker:
Michael Temkin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

...in this field, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes." Philipp von Jolly in his recommendation to Max Planck not to go into physics.…

  • Conferences & Workshops
Date
Monday, August 7, 2023. 9:30am - Thursday, August 10, 2023. 4:30pm
Date
Wednesday, May 31, 2023. 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Speaker:
Sam Payne (University of Texas)

I will discuss recent progress on counting the number of isomorphism classes of curves of a given genus over a finite field, with and without marked points, and applications to the cohomology of…

  • Lectures
Date
Thursday, May 18, 2023. 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Speaker:
Ravi Vakil (Stanford)

Doodling is a creative and fundamentally human activity, resulting in doodles with intricate and often hidden implicit structure.

Date
Thursday, April 6, 2023. 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Speaker:
Chenyang Xu (Princeton University)

The question of whether a smooth complex variety with a positive first Chern class, called a Fano variety, has a Kahler-Einstein metric has been a major topic…