*Speakers and titles will be added to the schedule throughout the workshop. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays All talks will be held in the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Lecture Hall (Room 102). Breakfast will be served daily from 9:00am-10:00am in the Simons Center Café, 2nd floor. Lunch will be served from 12:00pm-2:00pm in … Read more
The Simons Center follows a strict timeline in order to have efficient and successful programs. Please see below the chart for a general timeline for organizing a program. SCGP Program Organizer Timeline Activity Deadline Submit program proposal to the Simons Center Scientific Advisory Committee. For complete instructions on how to apply to organize a program … Read more
Title: “Kahler Geometry” The lectures will cover quite a lot of ground systematically, including the work on Kahler Einstein metrics in the positive case (Fano Varieties) and the algorithm’s mentioned in Burt Ovrut’s talk a few weeks back.
Title: The role of anomaly inflow in the theory of chiral quantum fluids Speaker: Juerg Froehlich (ETH, Zurich and IAS, Princeton) Date: Thursday, April 10, 2014 Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: To start with, I will discuss the electrodynamics of incompressible 2D electron gases exhibiting the quantum Hall effect. … Read more
Title: Hamiltonian dynamics of fluids and vortex sheets Speaker: Boris Khesin Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: We show that an approximation of the hydrodynamical Euler equation describes the binormal mean-curvature flow on vortex membranes in any dimension. This generalizes the classical binormal, … Read more
On behalf of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, we would like to congratulate our colleague and the speaker of della Pietra lecture series Dr. Andre Linde on the recent discovery of gravitational waves which supports his long standing contributions to the theory of cosmic inflation. The detection of gravitational waves by the BICEP2 … Read more
Title: Deriving anomaly-induced response from thermal equilibrium. Part II Speaker: Kristan Jensen, Stony Brook University Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014 Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Now that we believe that anomalies manifest themselves through macroscopic transport in thermal states, I’ll show you how to derive that transport from basic considerations of Euclidean field theory. To do … Read more
Foundations and Applications of Random Matrix Theory in Mathematics and Physics Organized by Alexei Borodin, Peter Forrester, Yan Fyodorov, Alice Guionnet, Jon Keating, Mario Kieburg, and Jacobus Verbaarschot August 24 – December 18, 2015 Random Matrix theory has been applied to many areas in pure and applied mathematics and in physics, ranging from correlations among … Read more
Title: Kuranishi Atlases Speaker: Dusa McDuff Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: I will explain how to construct a stratified smooth local Kuranishi chart near a genus zero nodal stable map, and the smoothness qualities of the associated isotropy group actions and coordinate changes. … Read more
Title: Minimal Discrepancy of Isolated Singularities and Reeb Orbits Speaker: Mark McLean, Stony Brook University Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 Time: 11:15am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: Let A be an affine variety inside a complex N dimensional vector space which either has an isolated … Read more
