Title: Spin Correlations in the Planar Ising Model via Fermionic Observables. Part II. Speaker: Dmitry Chelkak (Steklov Institute (PDMI RAS) & Chebyshev Lab, St.Petersburg) Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Based on recent joint projects with Clement Hongler and Konstantin Izyurov. The main goal of the minicourse … Read more
Title: Elliptic Curves and Dynamics Speaker: Jack Milnor, Stony Brook University Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: The talk with first describe some fascinating examples due to Bonifant and Dabija of holomorphic maps of the real or complex projective plane which carry an … Read more
Title: Discrete Holomorphicity and Quantized Affine Algebras Speaker: Paul Zinn-Justin, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Time: 10:30am – 11:30am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
Title: Lagrangian Caps in High Dimensional Symplectic Manifolds Speaker: Emmy Murphy, MIT Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:45pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: I will present a recent result (joint with Yakov Eliashberg) demonstrating the existence of exact Lagrangian cobordisms with a loose Legendrian in the negative end, in all dimensions … Read more
Title: Finite Size Emptiness Formation Probability for the XXZ Spin Chain at $Delta=-1/2$ Speaker: Luigi Cantini, ENS Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:45pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Around 2000, Razumov and Stroganov have noticed that the wavefunction of the ground state of the XXZ spin chain at $Delta=-frac{1}{2}$ (a physical … Read more
Title: Spin Correlations in the Planar Ising Model via Fermionic Observables. Part I. Speaker: Dmitry Chelkak (Steklov Institute (PDMI RAS) & Chebyshev Lab, St.Petersburg) Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Based on recent joint projects with Clement Hongler and Konstantin Izyurov. The main goal of the minicourse … Read more
What Can Big Data Teach Us About Society and About Ourselves? Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web … Read more
UNIVERSE OR MULTIVERSE? Andrei Linde studied physics at Moscow State University, was a member at CERN and is currently a Professor of Physics at Stanford University. He is an author of more than 250 papers on particle physics, phase transitions and cosmology. As a founding author of the inflationary universe scenario, he has written … Read more
Title: Poincare Series of Algebraic Links and Lattice Homology Speaker: Eugene Gorsky, Stony Brook University Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: I will describe a version of the lattice homology for plane curve singularities using the normalization of their components. These homology can be … Read more
