Title: Entropy, Stability and Yang-Mills Flow Speaker: Casey Kelleher, UC Irvine Date: Monday, December 15, 2014 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: (Joint work with Jeffrey Streets). Following the work of Colding and Minicozzi in the case of mean curvature flow, I will define a notion … Read more
Title: A Topologist looks at Sheaf Theory Speaker: John Morgan Date: Friday, December 12, 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 … Read more
Title: Ricci flow of regions with curvature bounded below in dimension three Speaker: Miles Simon, OVGU Date: Friday, December 12, 2014 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: We consider smooth complete solutions to Ricci flow with bounded curvature on manifolds without boundary in dimension three. Assuming … Read more
Title: Minimal two-sphere with constant curvature in the Grassmannians Speaker: Xiaowei Xu, USTC Date: Thursday, December 11, 2014 Time: 12:30pm – 03:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: In this talk, I wish to introduce some problems and our recent works on minimal two-sphere with constant curvature in the real … Read more
Title: Probing non-conformal holography with localization Speaker: Konstantin Zarembo, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics Date: Thursday, December 11, 2014 Time: 12:30pm – 03:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: The mass deformation of N=4 super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory, known as N=2* SYM, is the simplest non-conformal QFT with a known holographic dual. … Read more
Title: Hypersurface flows and geometric inequalities in space forms Speaker: Junfang Li, University of Alabama at Birmingham Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Time: 02:30pm – 03:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Consider the space forms Nn+1 with metric ds2=dρ2+φ2(ρ)dz2. We discuss two different types of normalized hypersurface curvature flows : … Read more
Title: Deforming symplectomorphisms of Kahler-Einstein manifolds by the mean curvature flow Speaker: Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: The mean curvature flow is applied to study the symplectomorphism group of a Kahler-Einstein manifold. In particular, … Read more
Title: Deconfinement transition as black hole formation by the condensation of QCD strings Speaker: Johnathan Maltz, IPMU Date: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 Time: 02:00pm – 03:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: We argue that the deconfinement transition of large-N Yang-Mills theory is the condensation of very long and self-intersecting … Read more
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: Chiral Ring of Strange Metals Speaker: Mikhail Isachenkov, DESY Date: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: A candidate description for a strange metal phase in 1+1 dimensions, namely a model of strongly-coupled fermions in the adjoint representation of SU(N) is considered. … Read more
