Della Pietra Lecture Series Presents Dr. Eric J Heller (Harvard University), December 4-5 2014

General Public Lecture Thursday December 4 Wine and Cheese Reception: 5:00pm, Simons Center Lobby and Art Gallery Lecture: 5:45pm, Simons Center Auditorium, Room 103 Title: “The Art of Listening. Carefully.” This event is in collaboration with the opening of the ‘Art and the Quantum Moment’ exhibition. For more information please visit:  scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/12754 ABSTRACT Waves permeate … Read more

Geometric Flows Program Seminar: Yuanqi Wang, UC Santa Barbara

Title: Kahler-Ricci Flow with conic singularities Speaker: Yuanqi Wang, UC Santa Barbara Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 Time: 02:30pm – 03:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center   [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Inspired by Donaldson’s program, we introduce the Kahler Ricci flows with conic singularities. The main part of this talk is to show that … Read more

Geometric Flows Program Seminar: Simone Calamai, Università di Firenze

Title: About Hermitian metrics whose scalar curvature of the Chern connection is constant Speaker: Simone Calamai, Università di Firenze Date: Monday, November 17, 2014 Time: 02:30pm – 03:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center   [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Given a smooth compact complex manifold, we consider the problem on existence, in a fixed conformal … Read more

Gauge Theory Program Seminar: Jonathan Toledo, Perimeter

Title: Smooth Wilson loops from the continuum limit of null polygons Speaker: Jonathan Toledo, Perimeter Date: Friday, November 14, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center   [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: We present integral equations for the area of minimal surfaces in AdS_3 ending on generic smooth boundary contours. The equations … Read more

Gauge Theory Program Seminar: Arkady Tseytlin, Imperial College London

Title: Higher Spins and AdS/CFT Dualities Program: Gauge Theory, Integrability, and Novel Symmetries of Quantum Field Theory Speaker: Arkady Tseytlin, Imperial College London Date: Thursday, November 13, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: I will review some recent results on … Read more

Seminar by Itamar Shamir, Weizmann Institute

Title: On Supersymmetry and Boundaries Speaker: Itamar Shamir, Weizmann Institute Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center           [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: We consider N=1 supersymmetric theories on 4d spaces with boundaries. The variation of the Lagrangian under supersymmetry is a total derivative, … Read more

Geometric Flows Program Seminar: Felix Shulze, University College London

Title: Networks of Curves Evolving by Curvature in the Plane Program: Geometric Flows Speaker: Felix Shulze, University College London Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 Time: 11:03am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: The network flow is the evolution of a regular network of … Read more

Gauge Theory Program Seminar: Radu Roiban, Penn State

Title: Scattering Amplitudes in Gauged Supergravity Theories — Yang-Mills-Einstein Theories as Gauge Theory Double-copies Program: Gauge Theory, Integrability, and Novel Symmetries of Quantum Field Theory Speaker: Radu Roiban, Penn State Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Roomm 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: While much work … Read more

SCGP Weekly Talk: Ralph Cohen, Standford

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 … Read more