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James E. Hansen Observations of ongoing climate change, paleoclimate data, and climate simulations concur: human-made greenhouse gases have set Earth on a path to climate change with potentially dangerous consequences for humanity. James Hansen, climatologist and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, explains the urgency of the situation and discusses why he believes it is a moral issue that pits the rich and powerful against the young and unborn, against the defenseless, and against nature. He explores available options to avoid morally unacceptable consequences.

Pierre Colmez
National Center for Scientific Research; Member, School of Mathematics
David Geraghty
Princeton University; Member, School of Mathematics

I will describe a joint work with Barnet-Lamb, Gee and Taylor where we establish a potential automorphy result for compatible systems of Galois representations over totally real and CM fields. This is deduced from a potential automorphy result for single l-adic Galois representations satisfying a `diagonalizability' condition at the places dividing l.

Tasho Kaletha
Peter Scholze Artist Paul Hodgson was a Director's Visitor at the Institute in 2010. In a Friends Forum, he discussed the "difficulties in making a judgement and dubtfulness in choosing one thing over another," that underlie his current practice and emerge "both in the way that I fabricate the work, and the images that I choose to present."

Menachem Kojman
Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Member, School of Mathematics

Infinite continuous graphs emerge naturally in the geometric analysis of closed planar sets which cannot be presented as countable union of convex sets. The classification of such graphs leads in turn to properties of large classes of real functions - e.g. the class of Lipschitz continuous functions - and to meta-mathematical properties of sub-ideals of the meager ideal (the sigma-ideal generated by nowhere dense sets over a Polish space) which reduce to finite Ramsey-type relations between random graphs and perfect graphs.

Andrzej Rucinski
Adam Mickiewicz University in Polznan, Poland; Emory University

A perfect matching in a k-uniform hypergraph H = (V, E) on n vertices
is a set of n/k disjoint edges of H, while a fractional perfect matching
in H is a function w : E → [0, 1] such that for each v ∈ V we have
e∋v w(e) = 1. Given n ≥ 3 and 3 ≤ k ≤ n, let m be the smallest
integer such that whenever the minimum vertex degree in H satisfies
δ(H) ≥ m then H contains a perfect matching, and let m∗ be defined
analogously with respect to fractional perfect matchings. Clearly, m∗ ≤

Matthew Kahle

The "hard discs" model of matter has been studied intensely in statistical mechanics and theoretical chemistry for decades. From computer simulations it appears that there is a solid--liquid phase transition once the relative area of the discs is about 0.71, but little seems known mathematically. Indeed, Gian-Carlo Rota suggested that if we knew the total measure of the underlying configuration space, "we would know, for example, why water boils at 100 degrees on the basis of purely atomic calculations."

Moderator: Harold Shapiro, President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Trustee, Institute for Advanced Study Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor, School of Social Science
Jonathan Israel, Professor, School of Historical Studies
Avishai Margalit, George F. Kennan Professor, School of Historical Studies
Joan Wallach Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor, School of Social Science