{"id":98,"date":"2018-10-25T14:40:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.mcs.cmu.edu\/abel2019\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2018-12-05T17:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T17:52:50","slug":"program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/events.mcs.cmu.edu\/abel2019\/program\/","title":{"rendered":"Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Abel in Pittsburgh<\/strong><\/h1>\n

January 11, 2019<\/h2>\n

Location: Rashid Auditorium 4401 Gates Hillman Center<\/em><\/h4>\n

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8:30 - 9:40<\/strong><\/td>\nRegistration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:40 - 9:50<\/strong><\/td>\nWelcome Remarks by Hans Zanna Munthe-Kaas<\/strong>, Chair of the Abel Prize Committee<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:50 - 10:00<\/strong><\/td>\nWelcome Remarks by Rebecca Doerge<\/strong>, Dean of the Mellon College of Science<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:00 - 11:00<\/strong><\/td>\nAlice Chang<\/strong><\/a>, Abel Prize Committee Member<\/em>, Princeton University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:00 - 11:30<\/strong><\/td>\nCoffee Break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:30 - 12:30<\/strong><\/td>\nScott Sheffield<\/strong><\/a>, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:30 - 2:30<\/strong><\/td>\nLunch Break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:30 - 3:30<\/strong><\/td>\nYakov Sinai<\/strong><\/a>, Abel Laureate<\/em>, Princeton University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:30 - 4:00<\/strong><\/td>\nCoffee Break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:00 - 5:00<\/strong><\/td>\nGil Kalai<\/strong><\/a>, Abel Prize Committee Member<\/em>, Hebrew University of Jerusalem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:30<\/strong><\/td>\nReception sponsored by the The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington, DC (Schatz Dining Room<\/strong>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Abstracts<\/h2>\n

\u25ba <\/a>Alice Chang<\/strong>
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\nTitle: <\/strong>Conformal Geometry on 4-manifolds<\/em>
\nAbstract: <\/strong> In this talk, I will report on the study of integral conformal invariants on 4-manifolds and applications to the study of topology and diffeomorphism type of a class of 4-manifolds. The key ingredient is the study of the integral of 2 of the Schouten tensor which is the part of integrand of the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet formula module the L2 part of the Weyl curvature. I will also describe the relevance of a 4-th order linear operator (part of the family of GJMS operator) with conformally covariant property in the study of the fully non-linear equation under conformal change of metrics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u25ba <\/a>Gil Kalai<\/strong>
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\nTitle: <\/strong>Noise Stability, Noise Sensitivity and the Quantum Computer Puzzle<\/em>
\nAbstract: <\/strong> I will talk about two related puzzles involving mathematics and computation. The first puzzle is about errors made when votes are counted during elections, and I will present a theory of noise stability and noise sensitivity of voting rules and other processes. The second puzzle is: are quantum computers possible? I will discuss the sensitivity of noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) systems and provide an argument for why quantum computers are not possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u25ba <\/a>Scott Sheffield<\/strong>
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\nTitle: <\/strong>Universal Randomness in 2D<\/em>
\nAbstract: <\/strong> I will give a fairly broad overview of recent work in conformal probability, including relationships between random fractal curves, 2D quantum gravity surfaces, continuum random trees, Gaussian free fields, and other objects inspired by problems in physics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u25ba <\/a>Yakov Sinai<\/strong>
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