# Archive | public talks

## Program Seminar: John Morgan

Title: A Topologist looks at Sheaf Theory Speaker: John Morgan Date: Friday, October 31, 2014 Time: 02:45pm – 04:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center   [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Sheaf theory has long been an essential tool in algebraic geometry, algebraic number theory, and complex analysis, but its inspiration comes directly from topology. This […]

## Program Seminar: John Morgan

Title: A Topologist looks at Sheaf Theory Speaker: John Morgan Date: Friday, October 24, 2014 Time: 02:45pm – 04:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center   [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Sheaf theory has long been an essential tool in algebraic geometry, algebraic number theory, and complex analysis, but its inspiration comes directly from topology. This […]

## Program Seminar: John Morgan

Title: A Topologist looks at Sheaf Theory Speaker: John Morgan Date: Friday, October 17, 2014 Time: 02:45pm – 04:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center   [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Sheaf theory has long been an essential tool in algebraic geometry, algebraic number theory, and complex analysis, but its inspiration comes directly from topology. This […]

## Simons Lectures Series: Steve Zelditch

Title: Planck’s constant, time and stationary states in quantum mechanics. Lecture III Speaker: Steve Zelditch, Northwestern Date: Thursday, October 2, 2014 Time: 04:00pm – 05:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: $\hspace{3mm}$Quantum mechanics solved the problem of how a particle can move and be stationary at the same time. It did […]

## Simons Lectures Series: Steve Zelditch, Northwestern

Title: Planck’s constant, time and stationary states in quantum mechanics. Lecture II Speaker: Steve Zelditch, Northwestern Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Time: 04:00pm – 05:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides [/box] Abstract: $\hspace{3mm}$Quantum mechanics solved the problem of how a particle can move and be stationary at the same […]

## Simons Lectures Series: Steve Zelditch, Northwestern

Title: Planck’s constant, time and stationary states in quantum mechanics. Lecture I Speaker: Steve Zelditch, Northwestern Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Time: 04:00pm – 05:00pm Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides [/box] Abstract: $\hspace{3mm}$Quantum mechanics solved the problem of how a particle can move and be stationary at the same time. […]

## Joint SCGP/Physics Colloquium: Volker Schomerus, DESY

Title:The Yang-Baxter Equation in Yang-Mills Theory Speaker: Volker Schomerus, DESY Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 Time: 04:15pm – 5:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center     [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: Gauge theories provide a highly successful framework for the description of nature, even though precision calculations tend to become enormously complex. This complexity may not be […]

## Exponential Integrals Part II: Seminar by Maxim Kontsevich

Title: Exponential Integrals Speaker:  Maxim Kontsevich Date: Tuesady, August 19, 2014 Time: 2:00pm-3:15pm Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: I’ll discuss general properties of integrals of exponents of polynomial functions on complex algebraic varieties, and infinite-dimensional generalizations. In particular, I’ll give a new interpretation of the solution of Hitchin equation as semi-infinite cohomology.

## Exponential Integrals Part I: Seminar by Maxim Kontsevich

Title: Exponential Integrals Speaker:  Maxim Kontsevich Date: Tuesady, August 19, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:15pm Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: I’ll discuss general properties of integrals of exponents of polynomial functions on complex algebraic varieties, and infinite-dimensional generalizations. In particular, I’ll give a new interpretation of the solution of Hitchin equation as semi-infinite cohomology.

## Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Frank Wilczek, March 4 – 5, 2014

Public Talk Tuesday March 4 at 5:30pm, Simons Center Auditorium, room 103: Title: “Expanding the Doors of Perception” Abstract: Modern physics has taught us that our unaided senses perceive only an infinitesimal portion of physical reality. Within that theme, Frank Wilczek, PhD, a Nobel Laureate and professor of physics at MIT, will especially emphasize color […]