Title: Real Gromov-Witten Theory In Genus Zero and Beyond Speaker: Mohammad Farajzadeh Tehrani, Princeton Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract There are two types of $J$-holomorphic spheres in a symplectic manifold invariant under an antisymplectic involution: those that have … Read more
Title: The Yang-Mills Equations Over Klein Surfaces Speaker: Melissa Liu, Columbia Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract In “The Yang-Mills equations over Riemann surfaces”, Atiyah and Bott studied Yang-Mills functional over a Riemann surface from the point of view of Morse … Read more
Our apologies to all for the inconvenience, but unfortunately, the public lecture by Edward Witten previously scheduled for this Thursday, June 20th at 5:30pm has been cancelled.
Title: No Escape: Invariance of Quantum Cohomology of Toric Orbifolds Under Flops Speaker: Christopher Woodward Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Time: 2:15pm – 3:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract I will describe an interpretation, joint with E. Gonzalez, of the critical values of the Givental potential for toric … Read more
Title: Topological Phases of Matter: Quantum Hall Effect and Beyond Speaker: Nick Read Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides.[/box]
Title: Symmetry Protected and Symmetry Enriched Topological Phases Speaker: Lukasz Fidkowski Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Naturality In Sutured Monopole Homology Speaker: Steven Sivek, Harvard Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: Kronheimer and Mrowka defined a version of monopole Floer homology which assigns to any balanced sutured manifold a module up to isomorphism. … Read more
Title: (n+ε)-Dimensional TQFTs and a Higher Dimensional Deligne Conjecture Speaker: Kevin Walker Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides.[/box] Abstract: The classical Deligne conjecture (now a theorem with several published proofs) says that chains on the little … Read more
Title: Chern-Weil Forms and Abstract Homotopy Theory Speaker: Dan Freed, UTexas Date: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: We begin by asking some innocent sounding questions in differential geometry. We give a modern formulation which leads us to abstract homotopy … Read more
Title: Heegaard Floer Homology Solid Tori Speaker: Liam Watson, UCLA Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The Alexander trick shows that any Dehn twist along the meridian of a torus extends to a homeomorphism of the solid torus. In … Read more
