Title: Two-dimensional random geometry: continuous and discrete approaches Program Website: Large N limit problems in Kahler Geometry Speaker: Ivan Kostov, IPhT, CEA-Saclay Date: Thursday, May 14, 2015 Time: 01:00pm – 02:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: This is an elementary introduction for non-specialists. Liouville gravity. KPZ-DDK … Read more
Title: Topological recursion and quantization Program Website: Knot homologies, BPS states, and SUSY gauge theories Speaker: Motohico Mulase, University of California Date: Thursday, May 14, 2015 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: The moduli space of S1-type zero loci for Z/2-harmonic spinors in dimension 3 and the guideline to define a new invariant Speaker: Ryosuke Takahashi, Harvard Date: Thursday, May 14, 2015 Time: 10:00am – 11:30am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Let M be a compact oriented 3-dimensional … Read more
Title: A Monotonicity Theorem for Two-dimensional Boundaries and Defects Speaker: Andrew O’Bannon, University of Oxford Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Time: 12:00pm – 01:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: I will propose a proof for a monotonicity theorem, or c-theorem, for a three-dimensional Conformal Field Theory (CFT) … Read more
Title: Bergman kernel and Feynman diagrams Program Website: Large N limit problems in Kahler Geometry Speaker: Hao Xu, Harvard University Date: Monday, May 11, 2015 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: I will talk about the coefficients of asymptotic expansion of Bergman kernel, … Read more
Title: Homology of quandles and Yang-Baxter operators Program Website: Knot homologies, BPS states, and SUSY gauge theories Speaker: Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University Date: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: Deforming symplectomorphisms of Kahler-Einstein manifolds by the mean curvature flow Speaker: Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: The mean curvature flow is applied to study the symplectomorphism group of a Kahler-Einstein manifold. In particular, … Read more
Title: Motivic DT-type invariants and 3d mirror symmetry Speaker: Hiraku Nakajima, RIMS, Kyoto University Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Cremonesi, Hanany and others recently compute Coulomb branch Hilbert series of 3-dimensional N=4 gauge theories, and write down explicit combinatorial expressions. I … Read more
Title: Compactness Results in SL(2,C) Gauge Theory Speaker: Cliff Taubes Date: Monday, September 22, 2014 Time: 03:30pm – 4:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box]
As part of the Simons Center program, Interactions of Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology with Physics through Algebra and Geometry, John Morgan will give a series of lectures (8 to 10 lectures) on Sheaf Theory with applications to duality. The course will be aimed at intermediate graduate students and above. The only prerequisite is a basic course … Read more