The restricted isometry property is arguably the most prominent tool in the theory of compressive sensing. In its classical version, it features l_2 norms as inner and outer norms. The modified version considered in this talk features the l_1 norm as the inner norm, while the outer norm depends a priori on the distribution of the random entries populating the measurement matrix.  The modified version holds for a wider class of random matrices and still accounts for the success of sparse recovery via basis pursuit and via iterative hard thresholding. In the special case of Gaussian matrices, the outer norm actually reduces to an l_2 norm. This fact allows one to retrieve results from the theory of one-bit compressive sensing in a very simple way. Extensions to one-bit matrix recovery are then straightforward.
 

There is a conjecture by Colliot-Thelene (about 2005) that under specific hypotheses, a morphism of Q-varieties f : X --> Y has the property that for almost all prime numbers p, the corresponding map X(Q_p) --> Y(Q_p) is surjective. A sharpening of the conjecture was solved by Denef (2016), and later, "if and only if" conditions on f were given by Skorobogatov et al. The plan for the talk is to explain in detail the conjecture and the results mentioned above, and to report on work in progress on a different method to attack the conjecture under quite relaxed hypotheses.

A proper simply connected one-ended metric space is call semi-stable if any two proper rays are properly homotopic.  A finitely presented group is called semi-stable if the universal cover of its presentation 2-complex is semi-stable.  
It is conjectured that every finitely presented group is semi-stable.  We will examine the known results for the cases where the group in question is relatively hyperbolic or CAT(0). 
 

After outlining the principles of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory (AQFT) I will describe the generalization of Hochschild cohomology that is relevant to describing deformations in AQFT. An interaction is described by a cohomology class.