Title: Representation Theory and Gauge Theory Speaker: David Ben-Zvi, University of Texas, Austin Date: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place:Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: While Lie groups are at the center of both the mathematics of representation theory and the physics of gauge … Read more
Title: K3 Surfaces, Modular Forms, and Non-geometric Heterotic Compactifications Speaker: Dave Morrison, University of California, Santa Barbara Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
Watch the Videos: SYMMETRY: FOLDING AND UNFOLDING Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 at 2 pm In this hands-on workshop participants will see how every symmetrical pattern has an “unfolded form” and a “folded form” and learn an easy way to name symmetry patterns based on their folded forms. Pre-printed copies of symmetrical patterns will be provided. … Read more
Title: String Theory, the Real World, and the Prediction of the Higgs Boson Mass Speaker: Gordon Kane, University of Michigan Date: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center
Title: The Symplectic Topology of Stein Manifolds Speaker: Mohammed Abouzaid, Simons Center Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Auditorium Room 103, Simons Center Abstract: The familiar classification of Riemann surfaces by the genus and the number punctures essentially states that each smooth surface admits a complex analytic … Read more
Title: Fukaya Categories of Stein Manifolds Speaker: Mohammed Abouzaid, Simons Center Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: I will begin by reviewing Fukaya categories, and give a brief overview of the methods that we have for computing them. I will then … Read more
On Thursday, May 3rd and Friday, May 4th free-lance Mathematician Dr. Jeffrey Weeks will deliver three talks for the Della Pietra Lecture Series at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University. The capstone talk of this series “The Shape of Space,” will be held on Thursday, May 3rd at 7:00 pm in … Read more
Title: The Index Vertex Speaker: Andrei Okounkov Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: The talk will be about the index of the Dirac operator for the moduli spaces of instantons in 6 real (or, rather, 3 complex) dimensions. I will explain: … Read more
Title: Quantum Sheaf Cohomology Speaker: Sheldon Katz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Given a smooth toric variety X and a deformation E of its tangent bundle TX, a quantum sheaf cohomology ring is rigorously defined … Read more
On Thursday, April 19th and Friday, April 20th noted Physicist William Bialek will deliver four talks for the Della Pietra Lecture Series at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University. Dr. Bialek’s first talk, to be held on Thursday, April 19th at 11:00 am in SCGP Lecture Hall, Room 102 is entitled, “150 years … Read more
