Title: Floer Theory and the Fueter Equation Program: G2 Manifolds Program Seminar Speaker: Dietmar Salamon, ETH Zurich Date: Monday, September 8, 2014 Time: 9:30am – 10:30am Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: On Five-dimensional AGT Relations Program: Gauge Theory, Integrability, and Novel Symmetries of Quantum Field Theory Speaker: Hidetoshi Awata, Nagoya University Date: Thursday, September 4, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Opening of the program and discussion of main topics by Nikita Nekrasov and Samson Shatshvili Program: Gauge Theory, Integrability, and Novel Symmetries of Quantum Field Theory Speaker: Nikita Nekrasov, SCGP Stony Brook University Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: TBA Speaker: Andriy Haydys, Bielefeld Date: Friday, August 29, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Algebraic-geometric aspects of constructing G2 manifolds as connected sums I, II Speaker: Alessio Corti, Imperial College London Date: Friday, August 29, 2014 Time: 09:00am-10:00am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: I will speak about weak Fano 3-folds, K3 surfaces and their Picard lattices, and explain how to solve the matching problem in … Read more
Title: Topology of manifolds in intermediate dimensions 5\leq n \leq 8 Speaker: Matthias Kreck, Bonn Date: Thursday, August 28, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: In these two lectures I plan to discuss various ways to pose the classification problem and briefly mention different ways to attack these problems. For … Read more
Title: G2-instantons over twisted connected sums Speaker: Andriy Haydys, Bielefeld Date: Thursday, August 28, 2014 Time: 09:00am-10:00am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The talk will be divided in two parts. First, I will construct G2-instantons over asymptotically cylindrical (ACyl) manifolds obtained from the building blocks of Corti-Haskins-Nordström-Pacini, using the familiar gradient flow … Read more
Title: G2-instantons over twisted connected sums Speaker: Henrique Sa Earp, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Brasil Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The talk will be divided in two parts. First, I will construct G2-instantons over asymptotically cylindrical (ACyl) manifolds obtained from the building blocks of … Read more
Title: Algebraic-geometric aspects of constructing G2 manifolds as connected sums I, II Speaker: Alessio Corti, Imperial College London Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 Time: 09:00am-10:00am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: I will speak about weak Fano 3-folds, K3 surfaces and their Picard lattices, and explain how to solve the … Read more
Title: The topology of G2-structures on 7-manifolds Speaker: Diarmuid Crowley, Bonn Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: In this talk I discuss the problem of counting the number of G2-structures on a spin 7-manifold M up to deformation: i.e. homotopies and the action of diffeomorphisms. For … Read more
