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For more information about the Simons Postdoctoral Fellows Meetings, please visit the Simons Foundation webpage.   Simons Postdoctoral Fellows Meeting Regular Session Abstracts PLENARY SPEAKERS   Nima Arkani­‐Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study The End of Space-Time The unification of quantum mechanics and gravity implies that the notion of space-time cannot be fundamental, but must emerge from more primitive building blocks. Recently some remarkable clues for a new … Read more

Title: From Higgs Bundles to Stability Conditions Speaker: Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Miami Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Time: 2:10pm – 3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       Abstract:  In this talk we will look at a new approach to classical questions of Birational Geometry – from the point of view of the … Read more

Title: Seiberg-Witten Geometry of N=2 Superconformal Theories, and ADE Bundles on Curves Speaker: Nikita Nekrasov, SCGP Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center           [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]

Title: Asymptotics in Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT Speaker: Jørgen Andersen, Aarhus University Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center          

Title: Superconformal Theories in Three Dimensions with (almost) Maximal Supersymmetry Speaker: Anton Kapustin, California Institute of Technology Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Time: 1:00Pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center      

Title: SCGP Colloquium, “Quantum Spin Chains and Quiver Gauge Theories” Speaker: Nick Dorey, University of Cambridge Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center          

Title: Topological Field Theory and Non-Abelian Gerbes Speaker: Anton Kapustin, California Institute of Technology Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center          

Title: Algebraic Curves and Knots Speaker: Sergei Gukov, California Institute of Technology Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center          

Title: Wigner’s Gruppenpest, Twisted K-theory, and Gapped Topological Insulators Speaker: Dan Freed, University of Texas Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Auditorium Room 103, Simons Center