Workshop IV: Finding Algebraic Structures in Extremal Combinatorial Configurations

Part of the Long Program Algebraic Techniques for Combinatorial and Computational Geometry
May 19 - 23, 2014

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 19, 2014

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
Shachar Lovett (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))

The Freiman-Ruzsa Theorem in Finite Fields

 
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
Jose Voloch (University of Texas at Austin)

Arcs and caps in projective spaces over finite fields

 
11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:20
Frank de Zeeuw (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))

Polynomials on products
PDF Presentation

 
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 3:35
Nathan Kaplan (Yale University)

Arcs in the Projective Plane
PDF Presentation

 
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:30 - 5:30
Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study)

Public Lecture: Randomness and Pseudorandomness
PDF Presentation

 
5:30 - 7:00 Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Shubhangi Saraf (Rutgers University New Brunswick/Piscataway)

Incidence geometry and applications to theoretical computer science

 
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:20
Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study)

Research Lecture: Permanent & Determinant: Non-identical Twins
PDF Presentation

 
2:30 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 3:50
4:00 - 4:15 Break
4:15 - 5:05

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study)

Matrix Rank - Extensions, Applications and Open Problems

 
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
Tali Kaufman (Bar-Ilan University)

Bounded degree high dimensional expanders
PDF Presentation
11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:20
Marton Hablicsek (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Kakeya problem over non-archimedean rings

 
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 3:35
Joseph Silverman (Brown University)

Extremal Configurations in Arithmetic Dynamics

 
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00 Poster Session

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Maryanthe Malliaris (University of Chicago)

Comparing the complexity of unstable theories

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
Herbert Edelsbrunner (Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria))

The Morse theory of Cech & Delaunay complexes

 
11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:20
Michael Bateman (University of Cambridge)

Inverse 2D Kakeya theorems

 
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 3:35
Aart Blokhuis (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)

Blocking Sets and Covers, variations of the Kakeya problem

 
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Noam Elkies (Harvard University)

Variations on a theme of Sylvester

5:00 - 5:15 Break
5:15 - 6:05
Joshua Zahl (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Space Curve Arrangements with Many Incidences

 

Friday, May 23, 2014

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Boris Bukh (Carnegie-Mellon University)

Algebraic constructions of K_{s,t}-free graphs

 
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
Ernest Croot (Georgia Institute of Technology)

 

11:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:20
Simeon Ball (Polytechnical University of Cataluña (Barcelona))

Segre's theorem and the MDS conjecture

 
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 3:35
Ilya Shkredov (Steklov Mathematical Institute)

The additive energy and the eigenvalues
PDF Presentation

 
3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Harald Helfgott (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))

Random generators of the symmetric group: diameter, mixing time and spectral gap