Title: Seminar Series on Kuranishi Structures Speaker: Kenji Fukaya Date: Friday, April 4, 2014 Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: In this week I will explain the notion of continuous family perturbations on Kuranishi structure or good coordinate system and show how we can use it to integrate … Read more
Title: Chiral superfluidity in QCD Speaker: Tigran Kalaydzhyan Date: Monday, April 7, 2014 Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: I will discuss new effects due to the appearance of chiral superfluidity in two regimes of QCD. First, at low temperatures and finite density, where the cold pion condensate under rotation and in electromagnetic fields develops string-like defects … Read more
Title: Thermal Corrections to Entanglement Entropy for Conformal Field Theory Speaker: Chris Herzog, YITP Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014 Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: I will discuss a universal low temperature correction to entanglement and Renyi entropies for a conformal field theory on a circle. The talk is … Read more
Title: Kuranishi Atlases: The role of additivity Speaker: Dusa McDuff, Columbia Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014 Time: 11:45am-12:45pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: I will explain topological aspects of the construction, emphasizing the role of additivity in the taming construction and the construction of cobordisms. I hope also to discuss … Read more
Title: New expansion of algebra: a multivalued paradigm Speaker: Oleg Viro, Stony Brook Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides.[/box] Abstract: Recently algebraic objects with multivalued operations appeared in different areas. Apparently, multivalued algebraic operations reside in any part of the mathematical universe. The triangle inequality, … Read more
Title: Towards Viterbo functoriality for nonexact Liouville embeddings Speaker: Janko Latschev, Uni Hamburg Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Time: 11:15am-12:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: I will outline a way to extend the construction of Viterbo’s transfer map in symplectic homology to nonexact embeddings of one Liouville domain into another. … Read more
Title: Torus knot invariants from Calogero model Speaker: Ksenia Bulycheva, ITEP Date: Monday, March 31, 2014 Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: I will present a construction of Jones and HOMFLY polynomial invariants for torus knots, based on quantum Calogero model. I will also discuss relation of torus knots … Read more
Title: Seminar Series on Kuranishi Structures Speaker: Kenji Fukaya Date: Friday, March 28, 2014 Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: From this week I start discussing the construction of virtual fundamental chain or cycle when Kuranishi structure is given. In this week I explain the notion of good coordinate … Read more
Title: Lorentz invariance in chiral kinetic theory Speaker: Mikhail Stephanov, UIC Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014 Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: I shall discuss how Lorentz invariance is realized (nontrivially) in the classical motion of massless spin-1/2 particles and explore implications for the chiral kinetic theory.
Title: GW invariants relative normal crossing divisors Speaker: Eleny Ionel, Stanford Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: The moduli spaces of holomorphic curves have an intriguing structure, reflected in the structure of the Gromov-Witten invariants. One way to get a glimpse into this structure … Read more
