Title: A Lagrangian mean curvature type flow for holomorphic line bundles Speaker: Adam Jacob, Harvard Date: Friday, December 05, 2014 Time: 02:30pm – 03:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Let L be a holomorphic line bundle over a compact Kahler manifold X. Motivated by mirror symmetry, in this talk … Read more
Title: Light-cone lattice from the universal R-matrix Speaker: Carlo Meneghelli Date: Thursday, December 04, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: Three point function in N=4 SYM and the spin vertex Speaker: Didina Serban, Saclay Date: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: I will present a newly developed approach to compute the three point function in N=4 SYM at weak coupling. It is … Read more
Title: N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on S2 x S2 and Liouville gravity Speaker: Alessandro Tanzini, SISSA Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: We describe N=2 supersymmetric theories on compact four-manifolds admitting a U(1) isometry. We show that the partition function on … Read more
Title: Explorations in the Physics and Mathematics of Moonshine Speaker: Shamit Kachru, Stanford Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 Time: 04:15pm – 05:15pm Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: “Monstrous moonshine” is a beautiful phenomenon first discovered in the 1980s, providing startling and unexpected relations between several fundamental objects … Read more
Title: Elliptic genus of E-Strings Speaker: Kimeyong Lee, KIAS Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: Gauge theories and quantum hydrodynamics Speaker: Antonio Sciarappa, SISSA Date: Monday, November 24, 2014 Time: 02:00pm – 03:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Hydrodynamic integrable systems are described in terms of integrable partial differential equations. I will focus on the periodic Intermediate Long Wave (ILW) system, both at … Read more
Title: Burge pairs Speaker: Omar Foda, University of Melbourne Date: Monday, November 24, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Burge pairs are pairs of Young diagrams that satisfy specific conditions. They were introduced by W H Burge in the 1990’s in studies of Roger-Ramanujan identities, … Read more
Title: A Topologist looks at Sheaf Theory Speaker: John Morgan Date: Friday, November 21, 2014 Time: 02:45pm – 04:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Sheaf theory has long been an essential tool in algebraic geometry, algebraic number theory, and complex analysis, but its inspiration comes directly from topology. This … Read more
General Public Lecture Thursday December 4 Wine and Cheese Reception: 5:00pm, Simons Center Lobby and Art Gallery Lecture: 5:45pm, Simons Center Auditorium, Room 103 Title: “The Art of Listening. Carefully.” This event is in collaboration with the opening of the ‘Art and the Quantum Moment’ exhibition. For more information please visit: scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/12754 ABSTRACT Waves permeate … Read more
