Talk by Xiuxiong Chen and Bing Wang, Univ of Wisconsin at Madison

Title: On the Kaehler Ricci flow (I) Speaker:  Xiuxiong Chenand Bing Wang Date: Friday, May 16, 2014 Time: 1:30pm-4:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center     [box, type=”download”]Watch the video (Xiuxiong Chen). Watch the video (Bing Wang).[/box]

Lecture Series by Simon Donaldson

Title: Kahler Geometry Speaker:  Simon Donaldson Date: Friday, May 16, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center     [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The lectures will cover quite a lot of ground systematically, including the work on Kahler Einstein metrics in the positive case (Fano Varieties) and the algorithm’s mentioned in Burt Ovrut’s talk a few weeks … Read more

Quantum Anomalies Program Seminar: Denis Bernard

Title: Controlling quantum flux through measurement: an idealised example. Speaker:  Denis Bernard Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Time: 01:00pm-02:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]  

Quantum Anomalies Program Seminar: Boris Dubrovin (SISSA)

  Title: Critical phenomena in weakly dispersive nonlinear Hamiltonian PDEs and universality Speaker:  Boris Dubrovin (SISSA) Date: Thursday, May 15, 2014 Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract:  In the talk we will consider solutions to Hamiltonian perturbations of quasilinear PDEs with slow varying initial data. Our interest will be mainly focussed on the behaviour of solutions … Read more

Quantum Anomalies Program Seminar: Justin David (Indian Institute of Science)

  Title: A universal correction to higher spin entanglement entropy Speaker:  Justin David (Indian Institute of Science) Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: We consider conformal field theories in 1+1 dimensions with W-algebra symmetries, deformed by a chemical potential mu for the spin-three current. We show that the order mu^2 correction … Read more

Quantum Anomalies Program Seminar: Oleg Bogoyavlenskij (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada)

Title: Exact Solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations Speaker:  Oleg Bogoyavlenskij (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada) Date: Monday, May 12, 2014 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract:  A complete classication of all periodic solutions to the 3-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with pairwise non-interacting Fourier modes is obtained. The corresponding sets of wave vectors k 2 Z3 necessarily belong either to the … Read more

Lecture Series by Simon Donaldson

Title: Kahler Geometry Speaker:  Simon Donaldson Date: Monday, May 12, 2014 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center     [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The lectures will cover quite a lot of ground systematically, including the work on Kahler Einstein metrics in the positive case (Fano Varieties) and the algorithm’s mentioned in Burt Ovrut’s talk a few weeks … Read more

Lecture by Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University

Title: Classification of Overtwisted Contact Structures in all Dimensions. Speaker:  Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University Date: Friday, May 9, 2014 Time: 04:00pm-05:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]  

Minicourse by Helmut Hofer and Dominic Joyce: Polyfolds

Title: Polyfolds Speaker:  Helmut Hofer, IAS Date: Friday, May 9, 2014 Time: 01:30pm-02:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]  

Lecture Series by Simon Donaldson

Title: Kahler Geometry Speaker:  Simon Donaldson Date: Friday, May 9, 2014 Time: 11:30am-12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center     [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The lectures will cover quite a lot of ground systematically, including the work on Kahler Einstein metrics in the positive case (Fano Varieties) and the algorithm’s mentioned in Burt Ovrut’s talk a few weeks … Read more