Title: Seminar Series on Kuranishi Structures Speaker: Kenji Fukaya Date: Friday, April 11, 2014 Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: Aspects of fiber product of Kuranishi structure In this week I want to discuss two main issue to study fiber product of Kuranishi structure. (I am not sure I can … Read more
Title: Kuranishi Atlases Speaker: Dusa McDuff, Columbia Date: Thursday, April 10, 2014 Time: 11:45am-12:45pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box]
Title: Hamiltonian dynamics of fluids and vortex sheets Speaker: Boris Khesin Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: We show that an approximation of the hydrodynamical Euler equation describes the binormal mean-curvature flow on vortex membranes in any dimension. This generalizes the classical binormal, … Read more
Title: Looking for flexibility in higher-dimensional contact manifolds Speaker: Olga Plamenevskaya Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Time: 11:15am-12:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: For 3-dimensional contact manifolds, a classical result of Eliashberg describes a large family of “flexible” contact structures, whose properties are completely determined by the algebraic topology … Read more
Title: Seminar Series on Kuranishi Structures Speaker: Kenji Fukaya Date: Friday, April 4, 2014 Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: In this week I will explain the notion of continuous family perturbations on Kuranishi structure or good coordinate system and show how we can use it to integrate … Read more
Title: Chiral superfluidity in QCD Speaker: Tigran Kalaydzhyan Date: Monday, April 7, 2014 Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: I will discuss new effects due to the appearance of chiral superfluidity in two regimes of QCD. First, at low temperatures and finite density, where the cold pion condensate under rotation and in electromagnetic fields develops string-like defects … Read more
Title: Thermal Corrections to Entanglement Entropy for Conformal Field Theory Speaker: Chris Herzog, YITP Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014 Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: I will discuss a universal low temperature correction to entanglement and Renyi entropies for a conformal field theory on a circle. The talk is … Read more
Title: Kuranishi Atlases: The role of additivity Speaker: Dusa McDuff, Columbia Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014 Time: 11:45am-12:45pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: I will explain topological aspects of the construction, emphasizing the role of additivity in the taming construction and the construction of cobordisms. I hope also to discuss … Read more
Title: New expansion of algebra: a multivalued paradigm Speaker: Oleg Viro, Stony Brook Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides.[/box] Abstract: Recently algebraic objects with multivalued operations appeared in different areas. Apparently, multivalued algebraic operations reside in any part of the mathematical universe. The triangle inequality, … Read more
Title: Towards Viterbo functoriality for nonexact Liouville embeddings Speaker: Janko Latschev, Uni Hamburg Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Time: 11:15am-12:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: I will outline a way to extend the construction of Viterbo’s transfer map in symplectic homology to nonexact embeddings of one Liouville domain into another. … Read more
