Organized by Alexander Abanov
SCGP Weekly Talks is a colloquium style series of talks aimed at all members and visitors of the Simons Center and the more general math and physics community on Stony Brook campus. The regular time and place for the talks are Tuesday, 1pm. During the workshops at the Center the talks are usually given by organizers or distinguished participants of the corresponding workshop on related topics. All SCGP Weekly Talks are recorded and can be accessed through the SCGP video portal. https://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/results.php?event_id=131
Weekly talks are held regularly on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in SCGP Rm 102.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Jan. 12 | Valerio Toledano Laredo | Quasi-Coxeter algebras, flat connections and quantum groups |
| Jan. 26 | Roman Bezrukavnikov | On character sheaves. |
| Feb. 2 | Hiraku Nakajima | Instantons on the Taub-NUT space |
| Feb. 23 | Bernard Nienhuis | Statistical Physics and Combinatorics, why now? |
| Mar. 3 at 2pm | Vasily Pestun | Geometric and algebraic structures in gauge theories |
| Mar. 8 | Christian Schnell | Introduction to Hodge theory |
| Mar. 15 | Alexei Borodin | The six vertex model and randomly growing interfaces in (1+1) dimensions |
| Mar. 22 | Marilena Loverde | Why we are excited about the LIGO results, a cosmologist’s perspective |
| Mar. 29 | Philip Griffiths, IAS | Hodge theory and moduli |
| Apr. 5 at 4:15pm | Andy Strominger | The Black Hole Information Paradox, Revisited |
| Apr. 12 | Nathan Seiberg | Gapped Boundary Phases of Topological Insulators via Weak Coupling |
| Apr. 19 | Shinsei Ryu | Bulk/boundary correspondence in (3+1)d topological phases |
| Apr. 26 | No talk | |
| May 3 | Paul Wiegmann | Precise adiabatic transport and Quillen holomorphic anomaly – Quantum Hall Effect, the case study |
| May 10 | Daniel Waldram | Generalised geometry and supersymmetric spacetimes |
| May 17 | Martin Hairer | Random loops |
| May 24 | Greg Huber, KITP | Terasaki Ramps: A Glimpse into the Geometrical Architecture of the Cell |
| Jun. 7 | Hakan Eliasson | Reducibility of quasi-periodic co-cycles–from Schrödinger to infinite dimension |
| Jun. 14 | Richard Wentworth | “Higgs bundles, flat connections, and higher Teichmueller theory” |
| Jun. 28 | TBA | TBA |