Title: A Topologist looks at Sheaf Theory Speaker: John Morgan Date: Friday, October 17, 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: Recent development on four-dimensional gradient shrinking Ricci solitons Speaker: Wu Peng, Cornell Univ Date: Friday, October 17, 2014 Time: 01:30pm – 02:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Ricci solitons were introduced by Richard Hamilton in mid 1980s to study singularity formations in the Ricci flow. Ricci solitons can be … Read more
Title: Effective Field Theories and Integrability Speaker: Alexander Zamolodchikov, Rutgers Date: Thursday, October 16, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: In two dimensions there is a class of effective field theories generated by by descendants of identity operator. I will discuss some special properties of such … Read more
Title: Lawson’s Conjecture and some generalizations Speaker: Simon Brendle, Stanford Univ and Columbia Univ Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: In the late 1960s, Lawson conjectured that the Clifford torus is the only embedded minimal torus in S^3. We will discuss … Read more
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, … Read more
Title: Three-point function in N=4 SYM and spin vertex Speaker: Ivan Kostov, IPhT, CEA-Saclay Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: Monodromy relation for three-point functions at weak coupling Speaker: Shota Komatsu, University of Tokyo Date: Thursday, October 9, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: We reformulate the computation of tree-level 3-pt functions in the SU(2)-sector of planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in such a … Read more
Title: Three point functions of gravitons from causality Speaker: Juan Maldacena, IAS Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the slides. [/box]
Title: A Topologist looks at Sheaf Theory Speaker: John Morgan Date: Friday, October 3, 2014 Time: 2:45pm – 4:15pm 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. … Read more
Title: Compact nearly Kahler 6-manifolds Speaker: Lorenzo Foscolo Date: Friday, October 3, 2014 Time: 1:15pm – 2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Compact six dimensional nearly Kähler manifolds are the cross-sections of Riemannian cones with holonomy G2. Currently there are only four known examples, which are all homogeneous. In this … Read more
