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G2 Manifolds Seminar: Matthias Kreck, Bonn

Title: Topology of manifolds in intermediate dimensions 5\leq n \leq 8 Speaker:  Matthias Kreck, Bonn Date: Thursday, August 28, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center     Abstract: In these two lectures I plan to discuss various ways to pose the classification […]

G2 Manifolds seminar: Andriy Haydys, Bielefeld

Title: G2-instantons over twisted connected sums Speaker:  Andriy Haydys, Bielefeld Date: Thursday, August 28, 2014 Time: 09:00am-10:00am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center     Abstract: The talk will be divided in two parts. First, I will construct G2-instantons over asymptotically cylindrical (ACyl) manifolds obtained […]

G2 Manifolds Seminar: Henrique Sa Earp, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Brasil

Title: G2-instantons over twisted connected sums Speaker:  Henrique Sa Earp, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Brasil Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center     Abstract: The talk will be divided in two parts. First, I will construct G2-instantons […]

G2 Manifolds Seminar: Alessio Corti, Imperial College London

Title: Algebraic-geometric aspects of constructing G2 manifolds as connected sums I, II Speaker: Alessio Corti, Imperial College London Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 Time: 09:00am-10:00am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center   Abstract: I will speak about weak Fano 3-folds, K3 […]

G2 Manifolds Seminar: Diarmuid Crowley, Bonn

Title: The topology of G2-structures on 7-manifolds Speaker:  Diarmuid Crowley, Bonn Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center   Abstract: In this talk I discuss the problem of counting the number of G2-structures on a spin 7-manifold M […]

G2 Manifolds seminar: Matthias Kreck, Bonn

Title: Topology of manifolds in intermediate dimensions 5\leq n \leq 8 Speaker:  Matthias Kreck, Bonn Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 Time: 09:00am-10:00am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center   Abstract: In these two lectures I plan to discuss various ways to pose the classification problem […]

G2 Manifolds seminar: Thomas Walpuski, Imperial College London

Title: G_2–instantons, associative submanifolds and Fueter sections Speaker:  Thomas Walpuski, Imperial College London Date: Monday, August 25, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center

G2 Manifolds seminar: Diarmuid Crowley

Title: A classification of smooth 2-connected 7-manifolds Speaker:  Diarmuid Crowley Date: Monday, August 25, 2014 Time: 09:00am-10:00am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center     Abstract: In this talk I will present a classification of closed smooth 2-connected 7-manifolds. The classification builds on work […]

G2 Manifolds Seminar: Spiro Karigiannis

Title: $G_2$ conifolds: desingularization, deformation, and construction? Speaker:  Spiro Karigiannis Date: Friday, August 22, 2014 Time: 03:30pm-4:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center     Abstract: $G_2$ “manifolds” with singularities are supposed to play an important role in M-theory. Cone-like singularities are the simplest […]

G2 Manifolds Seminar: Katrin Becker, Texas A&M University

Title: M-theory and G2 manifolds Speaker:  Katrin Becker, Texas A&M University Date: Friday, August 22, 2014 Time: 02:00pm-3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center     Abstract: This is an introduction to M-theory which is a theory of quantum gravity. It unifies general relativity with […]