Frederick Tsz-Ho Fong, Collapsing Behavior of the Kähler-Ricci flow and its Singularity Analysis

Title:“Collapsing Behavior of the Kähler-Ricci flow and its Singularity Analysis” Speaker: Frederick Tsz-Ho Fong, Stanford University Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Time: 02:30pm – 03:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss my recent works on the collapsing behavior of the Kähler-Ricci flow. The first work … Read more

Algebraic Topology and Physics Seminar, Week 1

Title: “Loop Differential K-theory” Speaker: Scott Wilson, Queens College, CUNY Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Time: 10:00am – 11:30am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       Abstract: I’ll introduce an extension of the Chern-Simons form, associated to a path of connections on a bundle over a manifold M, to a differential form on the … Read more

Rick Kenyon, Dimers, Circle Patterns and Integrability

Title:“Dimers, Circle Patterns and Integrability” Speaker: Dr. Rick Kenyon, Brown University Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Time: 1:00PM – 2:00PM Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       Abstract: Two metric triangulations are said to be discretely conformally equivalent if one can multiply the metric by a constant at each vertex to convert one … Read more

Ibrahima Bah, N=1 Generalizations of T_N Theories

Title: N=1 Generalizations of T_N Theories Speaker: Ibrahima Bah, University of Michigan Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Time: 11:30AM – 12:30PM Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center      

The Nature of Belief: An Interactive Journey Through Your Mind’s Eye

Lecture by Al Seckel Illusions are a wonderful window into perception, as they can reveal the hidden rules of the human perceptual system in a way that normal perceptual processes do not. Al Seckel provides an interactive and transformative journey through our inner minds; see, experience, and take delight in some of the world’s most … Read more

Director John Morgan, Principal G-bundles on Elliptic Curves

Title: Principal G-bundles on Elliptic Curves Speaker: John Morgan Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Time: 1:00 – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: In this talk we fix a compact group G and consider holomorphic principal bundles over a given elliptic curve with structure group the complex form of G. We will introduce various ways … Read more