Title: Classification of Overtwisted Contact Structures in all Dimensions. Speaker: Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University Date: Friday, May 9, 2014 Time: 04:00pm-05:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Polyfolds Speaker: Helmut Hofer, IAS Date: Friday, May 9, 2014 Time: 01:30pm-02:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Kahler Geometry Speaker: Simon Donaldson Date: Friday, May 9, 2014 Time: 11:30am-12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The lectures will cover quite a lot of ground systematically, including the work on Kahler Einstein metrics in the positive case (Fano Varieties) and the algorithm’s mentioned in Burt Ovrut’s talk a few weeks … Read more
Title: D-orbifold Homology and Cohomology, and Virtual Cycles – Lecture 5 of 5 Speaker: Dominic Joyce, Oxford Date: Friday, May 9, 2014 Time: 09:30am-10:30am Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: D-manifolds and d-orbifolds with corners. Stratified manifolds and bubbling Speaker: Dominic Joyce, Oxford Date: Thursday, May 8, 2014 Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Spectral theory of periodic triangular difference operators and its applications Speaker: Igor Krichever, Columbia University Date: Thursday, May 8, 2014 Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: Recently difference equations of the form $$V_i+a_i^1V_{i+1}+\cdots +a_i^kV_{i+k}+V_{i+k+1}=0$$ with $n$-periodic coefficients have attracted additional interest and become central for various problems in the theory of … Read more
Title: Polyfolds Speaker: Helmut Hofer, IAS Date: Thursday, May 8, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: The d-orbifold programme, with applications to moduli spaces of J-holomorphic curves. Overview Speaker: Dominic Joyce, Oxford Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Polyfolds Speaker: Helmut Hofer, IAS Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Quantum impurity problems and conformal field theory Speaker: Ian Affleck (UBC) Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2014 Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: Models of a single quantum impurity interacting with a gapless continuum of delocalized excitations play an important role in condensed matter physics. The universal low energy properties of such models can quite generally be … Read more
