YITP-SCGP Seminar: Nathan Seiberg

Title: Reading Between the Lines of Four-Dimensional Gauge Theories Speaker: Nathan Seiberg Date: Thursday, October 31, 2013 Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides[/box]

Quiver Varieties Program Seminar: Chris Brav, IAS

Title: Hamiltonian Local Models for Symplectic Derived Stacks Speaker: Chris Brav, IAS Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 Time: 10:00am – 11:15am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: We show that a derived stack with symplectic form of negative degree can be locally described in terms of generalised Darboux … Read more

Seminar by Federico Bonetti, Max Planck Institute for Physics (Munich)

Title: Tensor towers and (2,0) theories Speaker: Federico Bonetti, Max Planck Institute for Physics (Munich) Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 Time: 2:15pm – 3:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides[/box] Abstract: A five-dimensional approach to six-dimensional (2,0) theories is discussed, that makes use of towers of … Read more

SCGP Weekly Talks: Kristan Jensen, YITP

Title: A primer to Anomalies and Hydrodynamics Speaker: Kristan Jensen, YITP Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: In the spring of next year, there will be a program and two workshops at the Simons Center devoted to recent developments … Read more

Seminar by Alexander Zamolodchikov, Rutgers

Title: Particles and Poles in Ising Field Theory Speaker: Alexander Zamolodchikov, Rutgers Date: Monday, October 28, 2013 Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides[/box] Abstract: Ising field theory represents the basic universality class of criticality in 2D. Besides, it serves as a testground for … Read more

Scattering Amplitudes Program Seminar: Jaroslav Trnka, Caltech

Title: Four Point Amplitudes from Positivity Speaker: Jaroslav Trnka, Caltech Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]