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Dr. Tony Tyson (LSST, UC Davis) “LSST: New Science Frontiers” Thursday May 2nd, 5:00pm

Featuring Tony Tyson from LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope). When:  Thursday May 2nd, 5:00pm at the Simons Center Auditorium, room 103 Wine and Cheese Reception at 5:00pm, Lecture at 5:30pm Title:  “LSST: New Science Frontiers” Speaker:  Dr. Tony Tyson; LSST, Physics Department, University of California, Davis, CA Homepage:  http://www.lsst.org/lsst/lsst_cs [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] ABSTRACT: Expected … Read more

Topology Seminar Series: Moon Duchin, Tufts University

Title: Divergence of geodesics Speaker: Moon Duchin, Tufts University Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013 Time: 11:30pm – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center         Abstract: The divergence of geodesics measures how fast geodesics spread apart, and with a bit of care can be defined to produce a large-scale geometric statistic related … Read more

Conformal Geometry Program Lecture Series: Tetsuji Miwa – RIMS, Kyoto University

Title: Method of Algebraic Analysis in the Study of Solvable Lattice Models Speaker: Tetsuji Miwa – RIMS, Kyoto University Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center         Abstract: I review on the approach from algebraic analysis to solvable lattice models: Ising model via deformation … Read more

Conformal Geometry Program Lecture Aeries: Dmitry Belyaev, University of Oxford

Title: Bogomolny-Schmit Conjecture Speaker: Dmitry Belyaev, University of Oxford Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center         Abstract: Bogomolny and Schmit conjectured that nodal domains of a random plane wave can be described by critical percolation on the square lattice. We will discuss this … Read more

SCGP Weekly Talk: John Cardy, Oxford University

Title: Entanglement in Quantum Many-Body Systems Speaker: John Cardy, Oxford University Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center         Abstract: In this talk I’ll review some of the progress of the last few years in quantifying the degree of quantum entanglement in the ground … Read more

Conformal Geometry Program seminar: Didina Serban, Saclay Center

Title: The Spectrum of Anomalous Dimensions of the N=4 SYM Theory from the Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz Speaker: Didina Serban, Saclay Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:45pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center         Abstract: The maximally supersymmetric gauge theory in four dimensions became a particular object study in the … Read more

Topology Seminar Series: Peter Ozsvath, Princeton University

Title: Bordered Heegaard Floer Homology Speaker: Peter Ozsvath, Princeton University Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:45pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center         Abstract: Bordered Floer homology is an invariant for three-manifolds with boundary, developed in collaboration with Robert Lipshitz and Dylan Thurston. I will outline the construction, and … Read more

Conformal Geometry Program Lecture Series: Dmitry Belyaev, Oxford

Title: Two-point Schramm’s Formula and SLE-8/3 Bubbles Speaker: Dmitry Belyaev, Oxford Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center         Abstract: Simmons and Cardy recently predicted a formula for the probability that the chordal SLE$_{8/3}$ path passes to the left of two points in the upper … Read more

Conformal Geometry Program seminar: Michel Bauer, Saclay

Title: Quantum non Demolition Measurements, Martingales and Exchangeable Variables Speaker: Michel Bauer, Saclay Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center         Abstract: More than 85 years after the discovery of the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, the meaning of quantum measurement is still debated. The notion … Read more

Topology Seminar Series: Tatyana Khodorovskiy, Hunter College of CUNY

Title: Bounds on Embeddings of Rational homology Balls in Symplectic 4-manifolds Speaker: Tatyana Khodorovskiy, Hunter College of CUNY Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center         Abstract: The rational blow-down procedure for smooth 4-manifolds was defined in 1998 by Fintushel and Stern, which is a generalization … Read more