Title: Deformed Graßmannians, N=4 Scattering Amplitudes, and Integrable Spin Chains Speaker: Matthias Staudacher, Humboldt University of Berlin Date: Thursday, October 2, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: Planck’s constant, time and stationary states in quantum mechanics. Lecture II Speaker: Steve Zelditch, Northwestern Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Time: 04:00pm – 05:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides [/box] Abstract: $\hspace{3mm}$Quantum mechanics solved the problem of how a particle can move and be stationary at the same … Read more
Title: Planck’s constant, time and stationary states in quantum mechanics. Lecture I Speaker: Steve Zelditch, Northwestern Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Time: 04:00pm – 05:00pm Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides [/box] Abstract: $\hspace{3mm}$Quantum mechanics solved the problem of how a particle can move and be stationary at the same time. … Read more
Title: Riemannian manifolds with special holonomy and special curvature Speaker: Robert Bryant, Duke Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Time: 02:00pm – 03:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: While the local generality of metrics with special holonomy is now well-understood and the existence of complete or even compact examples is … Read more
Title: The geometry of double field theory Speaker: Chris Hull, Imperial College London Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box]
Title: Toda 3-Point Functions From Topological Strings Speaker: Vladimir Mitev Date: Thursday, September 25, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: We consider the long-standing problem of obtaining the 3-point functions of Toda CFT. Our main tools are topological strings and the AGT-W relation between gauge theories and … Read more
Title: Hyperk\”ahler Floer theory as an explicit Hamiltonian system Speaker: Sonja Hohloch, EPFL Lausanne Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 Time: 02:00pm – 03:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Floer homology was developed by Andreas Floer at the end of the 1980’s in order to approach Arnold’s conjecture about the … Read more
Title: Short-Range Entangled Phases and Topology Speaker: Anton Kapustin Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: Recently a new and rather unexpected connection between condensed matter physics and algebraic topology has been noted. Namely, it appears that phases of … Read more
Title: Refined BPS invariants and Matthieu Moonshine Speaker: Albrecht Klemm, University of Bonn Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box]
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]
