Title: $G_2$ conifolds: desingularization, deformation, and construction? Speaker: Spiro Karigiannis Date: Friday, August 22, 2014 Time: 03:30pm-4:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: $G_2$ “manifolds” with singularities are supposed to play an important role in M-theory. Cone-like singularities are the simplest type to consider. I will introduce $G_2$ cones and discuss the … Read more
Title: M-theory and G2 manifolds Speaker: Katrin Becker, Texas A&M University Date: Friday, August 22, 2014 Time: 02:00pm-3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: This is an introduction to M-theory which is a theory of quantum gravity. It unifies general relativity with quantum field theory. M-theory includes besides all string theories eleven-dimensional supegravity. … Read more
Title: G2 instantons on generalised Kummer constructions Speaker: Thomas Walpuksi, Imperial College London Date: Friday, August 22, 2014 Time: 11:00pm-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Overview of Gauge Theory and Submanifold geometry in Exceptional Holonomy III Speaker: Simon Donaldson Date: Friday, August 22, 2014 Time: 09:00pm-10:30am Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Construction of compact G_{2} manifolds I, II Speaker: Mark Haskins and Johannes Nordstrom Date: Thursday, August 21, 2014 Time: 09:00am-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Johannes Nordstrom video. Mark Haskins video.[/box]
Title:Fundamentals of exceptional holonomy, II Speaker: Spiro Karigiannis Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: This is part two of an introduction to the geometry of $\mathrm{G}_2$ and $\mathrm{Spin}(7)$ structures, henceforth called “exceptional structures”. We will begin with the complete non-compact examples of exceptional manifolds due … Read more
Title: Overview of gauge theory and submanifold geometry on G_{2} manifolds, II Speaker: Simon Donaldson Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 Time: 09:00pm-10:30am Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Overview of gauge theory and submanifold geometry on G_{2} manifolds, I Speaker: Simon Donaldson Date: Tuesady, August 19, 2014 Time: 03:30pm-04:30pm Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Exponential Integrals Speaker: Maxim Kontsevich Date: Tuesady, August 19, 2014 Time: 2:00pm-3:15pm Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: I’ll discuss general properties of integrals of exponents of polynomial functions on complex algebraic varieties, and infinite-dimensional generalizations. In particular, I’ll give a new interpretation of the solution of Hitchin equation as semi-infinite cohomology.
Title: Exponential Integrals Speaker: Maxim Kontsevich Date: Tuesady, August 19, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:15pm Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: I’ll discuss general properties of integrals of exponents of polynomial functions on complex algebraic varieties, and infinite-dimensional generalizations. In particular, I’ll give a new interpretation of the solution of Hitchin equation as semi-infinite cohomology.
