Title: TBD Speaker: Vasily Pestun, IAS Date: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]

Title: TBD Speaker: Vasily Pestun, IAS Date: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: Calabi-Yau categories, string topology, and the Floer field theory of the cotangent bundle Speaker: Ralph Cohen, Stanford Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: I will describe joint work with Sheel Ganatra, in which we prove an equivalence […]
Title: Vortex equations and invariants: a survey Speaker: Ignasi Mundet i Riera, University of Barcelona Date: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: Motivic DT-type invariants and 3d mirror symmetry Speaker: Hiraku Nakajima, RIMS, Kyoto University Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Cremonesi, Hanany and others recently compute Coulomb branch Hilbert series of 3-dimensional N=4 gauge theories, and write down explicit combinatorial expressions. I […]
Title: Rotational symmetry of self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow Speaker: Simon Brendle, Stanford Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: The superconformal bootstrap and vertex operator algebras Speaker: Leonardo Rastelli, YITP Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Conformal field theories (CFTs) play a central role in theoretical physics. They are the signposts in the larger space of quantum field theories, […]
Title: Short-Range Entangled Phases and Topology Speaker: Anton Kapustin Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: Recently a new and rather unexpected connection between condensed matter physics and algebraic topology has been noted. Namely, it appears that phases of […]