Past Events
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Computers are now better than humans at logical games and puzzles such as Sudoku, Chess, Go and so on. Mathematics can also be framed as a logical puzzle game.
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The seemingly magical ability of a spinning top to stay upright fascinated people for many thousands of years and in many civilizations.
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The moduli space M_g of genus g curves (or Riemann surfaces) is a central object of study in algebraic geometry. Its cohomology is important in many fields.
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Coding is the last step in writing a program. The first step is deciding what we want to achieve and how. The best methods for working through subsequent steps consist in using simple mathematics…
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We will give an accessible introduction to the Hasse-Weil conjecture for curves and related problems in the Langlands program. We will discuss some recent work with G. Boxer, F. Calegari and T.
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Illusions have been a constant source of amusement but they are also a unique gateway into understanding the way we perceive the world and how the brain processes information. …
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Suppose you wish to find a 2^n by 2^n matrix by asking this matrix question that it honestly answers. For example you can ask question "What is your (1,1) element?’"
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Harmonic measure is the probability that a Brownian traveler starting from the center of the domain exists through a particular portion of the boundary.
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How can we make it harder to misuse powerful AI systems, such as GPT-4, for propaganda, fraud, academic cheating, copyright violation, and so on?
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...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
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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…
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Doodling is a creative and fundamentally human activity, resulting in doodles with intricate and often hidden implicit structure.
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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…
Camera as Witness Stanford Arts presents the REFLECTIONS series celebrating the UN International Day of Women and…