Title: Boundary Estimates for Ricci Flow Speaker: Panagiotis Gianniotis, University College London Date: Monday, November 10, 2014 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: Asymptotic geometry and large isoperimetric regions Speaker: Otis Chodosh, Stanford Date: Thursday, November 06, 2014 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Roomm 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: In spite of the long history of the isoperimetric problem, the list of manifolds where isoperimetric regions are well understood is remarkably short. In … Read more
Title: Smoothing properties of the Kaehler-Ricci flow Speaker: Vincent Guedj, Toulouse Date: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Roomm 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Let X be a compact Kaehler manifold. I will show, following a joint work with A.Zeriahi, that the Kaehler-Ricci flow (as well as its … Read more
Title: Vortex equations and invariants: a survey Speaker: Ignasi Mundet i Riera, University of Barcelona Date: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: Rethinking Connes’ approach to the standard model of particle physics via non-commutative geometry Speaker: Shane Farnsworth, Perimeter Date: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 Time: 09:30am – 10:30am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: Connes has argued that non-commutative geometry (NCG) more aptly describes the standard model Lagrangian. Although … Read more
Title: A Topologist looks at Sheaf Theory Speaker: John Morgan Date: Friday, October 31, 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
Title: On the Collinear Limit of Scattering Amplitudes at Strong Coupling Speaker: Amit Sever, Perimeter Date: Friday, October 31, 2014 Time: 01:30pm – 02:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: The Ricci flow on the sphere with marked points Speaker: Jian Song, Rutgers Date: Friday, October 31, 2014 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: The Ricci flow on the 2-sphere with marked points is shown to converge in all three stable, semi-stable, and unstable cases. … Read more
Title: A bootstrap program for scattering amplitudes Speaker: Benjamin Basso, Princeton Date: Thursday, October 30, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: In this talk I will explain how to compute gluon scattering amplitudes at finite coupling in planar N=4 SYM theory, using the duality with … Read more
Title: SU(2) Monopoles and Integrable Systems Speaker: Harry Braden, University of Edinburgh Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Time: 02:00pm – 03:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: I will describe a method of reconstruction for the gauge and Higg’s fields for Euclidean SU(2) monopoles.
