Title: On a Hamiltonian Description of a Fluid With Hall Viscosity Speaker: Alexander Abanov, SCGP Stony Brook University Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: We consider a model of a classical ideal two-dimensional fluid. Hydrodynamics of this model is Hamiltonian, nonlinear and has … Read more
Title: Uniqueness of the Approximating Contact Structure Program: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Connections to Low-Dimensional Topology Speaker: Thomas Vogel, Max Planck Institue for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Time: 11:15am – 12:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: A theorem of Eliashberg and Thurston implies that every foliation on … Read more
Title: Gaudin Algebras and Piecewise Linear Transformations Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Leonid Rybnikov, HSE Moscow Date: Friday, October 5, 2012 Time: 3:00pm – 4:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Gaudin subalgebras form a family of maximal commutative subalgebras in the N-th tensor power of a universal enveloping algebra … Read more
Dr. Robert Kirshner, Photo credit: Lynn Barry Hetherington Lecture 1 ‘A Nobel Surprise: The Accelerating Universe’ (This lecture is geared for high school and undergraduate students) Title: “A Nobel Surprise: The Accelerating Universe” by Dr. Robert Kirshner Time: Tuesday October 2nd at 11:00 am Place: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics room 103 [box, type=”download”]Watch … Read more
Title: Odd Khovanov Homology Via Hyperplane Arrangements Program: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Connections to Low-Dimensional Topology Speaker: Zsuzsanna Dancso, Fields Institute Date: Thurssday, October 4, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: We will describe a construction of Odd Khovanov homology (isomorphic to that of Ozsvath-Rasmussen-Szabo) as a special … Read more
Title: Alday, Gaiotto, Tachikawa Conjecture and Integrability Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Vladimir Fateev, Université Montpellier 2 Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: We show that Alday, Gaiotto and Tachikawa conjecture, relating the instanton partition function in N=2 supersymmetric gauge theries with conformal … Read more
Title: Algebra and Analysis of Quantum Integrable Models Related to $U_q(sl _2)$ Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Dr. Fedor Smirnov, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center WEEK 4 – Dr. Smirnov will give … Read more
Title: From Quantum Mechanics to Symplectic Topology and Back Speaker: Leonid Polterovich, University of Chicago Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: Algebras of functions of certain symplectic manifolds admit quasi-states, a class of functionals which are linear on all Poisson-commutative subalgebras but not on … Read more
Title: From ECH to HF: The Story You Have Never Heard Program: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Connections to Low-Dimensional Topology Speaker: Paolo Ghiggini, Univ. de Nantes Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Time: 10:00am – 11:00am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: After describing definitions of \widehat{HF} and \widehat{ECH} adapted to open book decompositions, … Read more
Title: Nonorientable Four-ball Genus Can be Arbitrarily Large Program: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Connections to Low-Dimensional Topology Speaker: Joshua Batson, MIT Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Introduction: This talk provides background for my 1 p.m. talk on the nonorientable four-ball genus. First, I’ll give some … Read more
