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Interactive Workshops with Artist in Residence, Bill Duffy
Sign up for evening workshops! Artist Demonstration daily at the Simons Center Gallery, Monday -Friday, 11 am -2 pm. The sculptor William Duffy will create a figurative “Sphere” object using a wax modeling technique during his residency at the SCGP Gallery. The public is invited to participate in, watch and learn about the development stages … Read more
Topological Phases of Matter Program: Rahul Roy, UCLA
Title: The Role of Space Group Symmetries in Many Body Interacting Systems Speaker: Rahul Roy, UCLA Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract I will discuss the constraints placed by space group symmetries in two and three dimensions on the … Read more
Topology Seminar: R. Inanc Baykur, “Topological Complexity of Symplectic 4-manifolds and Stein Fillings”
Title: Topological Complexity of Symplectic 4-manifolds and Stein Fillings Speaker: R. Inanc Baykur Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Following the ground-breaking works of Donaldson and Giroux, Lefschetz pencils and open books have become central tools in the study of symplectic 4-manifolds and contact 3-manifolds. An open question at … Read more
WEATHER ADVISORY
UPDATE Wednesday, October 31st The Hyper Kahler Geometry Workshop will be held in the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Lecture Hall 102 beginning at 9:30 am. The SCGP Cafe will be serving breakfast and lunch. All other activity in the Center is to be determined, please check back for updates. Earlier Message: Due … Read more
SCGP Weekly Talk: Alexander Zamolodchikov, “Baxter’s Operators, Boundary States, ODE/CFT and Beyond”
Title: Baxter’s Operators, Boundary States, ODE/CFT and Beyond Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Alexander Zamolodchikov, Rutgers University Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Auditorium Room 103, Simons Center Abstract: In this talk I will review the paradigm of integrability in 2D Quantum Field Theories (QFT), in particular the Baxter’s operators … Read more
Dr. Jaume Gomis, “Exact Results in D=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories”
Title: Exact Results in D=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories Speaker: Dr. Jaume Gomis, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Date: Friday, September 28, 2012 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: The exact computation of the partition function of two dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories using supersymmetric localization will be presented, together with … Read more
Curvature, Cones, and Characteristic Numbers: A new paper by Sir Michael Atiyah and Dr. Claude LeBrun
With collaborative research started in the fall of 2011 at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, the authors study Einstein metrics on smooth compact 4-manifolds with an edge-cone singularity of specified cone angle along an embedded 2-manifold.
Simons Postdoctoral Fellows Meeting. April 11-13, 2012.
In 2009 the Simons Foundation initiated a program through which 46 universities have awarded a total of 70 Postdoctoral Fellowships in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. We have been delighted by the outstanding quality of the appointments made. In a three-day meeting beginning April 11, the Simons Foundation will bring together this remarkable … Read more