PATHS: Charting, Navigating & Bridging: Lecture by artist W. Bradford Paley Tuesday June 11, 5:00pm

PATHS: Charting, Navigating & Bridging: May 6 -June 28 2013 Simons Center Art Gallery Lecture by artist W. Bradford Paley Tuesday June 11, 5:30pm. Wine and cheese reception at 5:00pm. ...

Graduate Workshop on Kahler Geometry, June 24 – July 5, 2013

Workshop in Kahler Geometry-Summer 2013 Recently there have been spectacular developments in Kahler geometry which cut across a wide variety of mathematical fields ranging from the analysis of PDE’s to ...

Low Dimensional Topology: May 20-24 2013

Organized by Peter Ozsvath, Olga Plamenevskaya, and Mohammed Abouzaid The conference will explore the connections between low-dimensional topology and symplectic geometry. This workshop is a part of the Spring 2013 ...

Upcoming Events

SCGP Cafe Event – Telescope Viewing of the Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, May 28

The astronomical event of the conjunction of Jupiter and Venus will take ...

Simons Summer Workshop 2013, July 22 to August 16

We are pleased to announce the 2013 Summer Simons Workshop in Mathematics ...

Topological Phases of Matter: June 10-14, 2013

Organized by Paul Fendley (University of Virginia), Andreas Ludwig (UCSB), Xiao-Liang Qi ...

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Dr. Tony Tyson (LSST, UC Davis) “LSST: New Science Frontiers” Thursday May 2nd, 5:00pm

Featuring Tony Tyson from LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope). When:  Thursday May 2nd, 5:00pm at the Simons Center Auditorium, room 103 Wine and Cheese Reception at 5:00pm, Lecture at 5:30pm Title:  “LSST: New Science Frontiers” Speaker:  Dr. Tony Tyson; LSST, [...]

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Topological Phases of Matter Program Seminar: Lukasz Fidkowski

Title: Symmetry Protected and Symmetry Enriched Topological Phases Speaker: Lukasz Fidkowski Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center        

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Topology Seminar Series: Steven Sivek, Harvard

Title: Naturality In Sutured Monopole Homology Speaker: Steven Sivek, Harvard Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center         Abstract: Kronheimer and Mrowka defined a version of monopole Floer homology which [...]

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Graduate Workshop on Geometry of Hilbert schemes: November 18 – 22, 2013

Organized by Mark de Cataldo,  Alexander Kirillov, Jr., and Robert Lazarsfeld. Dates: November 18 – 22, 2013 Given a smooth algebraic surface X, the collection of all n-tuples of points on X (or, more precisely, finite subschemes of X of length n) [...]

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Topology Seminar Series: Kevin Walker

Title: (n+ε)-Dimensional TQFTs and a Higher Dimensional Deligne Conjecture Speaker: Kevin Walker Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center         Abstract: The classical Deligne conjecture (now a theorem with several [...]

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SCGP Weekly Talk: Dan Freed, UTexas

Title: Chern-Weil Forms and Abstract Homotopy Theory Speaker: Dan Freed, UTexas Date: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       Abstract: We begin by asking some innocent sounding questions in differential geometry. [...]

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Topology Seminar Series: Liam Watson, UCLA

Title: Heegaard Floer Homology Solid Tori Speaker: Liam Watson, UCLA Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       Abstract: The Alexander trick shows that any Dehn twist along the meridian of [...]

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Conformal Geometry Program Lecture Series: Vladimir Bazhanov, ANU

Title: A master solution of the quantum Yang–Baxter equation and classical discrete integrable equations Speaker: Vladimir Bazhanov, ANU Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2013 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center         Abstract: We obtain a [...]

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SCGP Weekly Talk: Vladimir Bazhanov, ANU

Title: Quantum Geometry of 3-Dimensional Lattices: Existence as Integrability Speaker: Vladimir Bazhanov, ANU Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center           Abstract: We will review various connections between the [...]

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Topological Phases of Matter Seminar: Paul Wiegmann, University of Chicago

Title: Anomalous Hydrodynamics of Fractional Quantum Hall States Speaker: Paul Wiegmann, University of Chicago Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       Abstract: Anomalous hydrodynamics of Fractional Quantum Hall States.

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Conformal Geometry Program seminar: Vladimir Korepin, Stony Brook

Title: Completely Integrable Integral Operators and Correlation Functions Speaker: Vladimir Korepin, Stony Brook Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2013 Time: 11:45am – 12:45pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       Abstract: Completely integrable integral operators generalize sin kernel, which was [...]

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