Moduli Spaces Program Seminar: Dusa McDuff, Columbia
Title: Kuranishi Atlases Speaker: Dusa McDuff, Columbia Date: Thursday, February 20, 2014 Time: 11:45am-12:45pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box]
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SCGP/Physics Colloquium: Dam Son, University of Chicago
Title: Hydrodynamics and quantum anomalies Speaker: Dam Son, University of Chicago Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Time: 4:15pm-5:15pm Place: Auditorium 103, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the slides.[/box] Abstract: Hydrodynamics is the theory describing collective behaviors of fluids and gases. It has a very long history and is usually considered to belong to the realm … Read more
Moduli Spaces Program Seminar: Mohammed Abouzaid, Columbia
Title: On Floer cohomology and non-archimedian geometry Speaker: Mohammed Abouzaid, Columbia Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: Work of Kontsevich-Soibelman and Fukaya indicates that there is a natural rigid analytic space (the mirror) associated to a symplectic manifold equipped with a Lagrangian torus fibration. In … Read more
Moduli Spaces Program Seminar: Mark McLean, MIT
Title: Minimal Discrepancy of Isolated Singularities and Reeb Orbits Continued Speaker: Mark McLean, MIT Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Time: 11:15am-12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: Recall from the previous lecture, if A is an isolated singularity satisfying additional conditions then there is an invariant md(A) called the minimal discrepancy. Also … Read more
Moduli Spaces Program Seminar: Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner, IAS
Title: Length and volume in Seiberg-Witten theory Speaker: Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner, IAS Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: I will discuss recent joint work with Vinicius Gripp and Michael Hutchings relating the volume of any contact three-manifold to the length of certain finite sets of Reeb … Read more
SCGP Weekly Talk: Boris Khesin, University of Toronto
Title: Nondegenerate curves and pentagram maps Speaker: Boris Khesin, University of Toronto Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: A plane curve is called nondegenerate if it has no inflection points. How many classes of closed nondegenerate curves exist on a sphere? We are going to see … Read more
Moduli Spaces Program Seminar: Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, IAS
Title: An introduction to embedded contact homology Speaker: Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, IAS Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 Time: 11:15am-12:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: Embedded contact homology (ECH) is a type of Floer homology for contact 3-manifolds that is isomorphic to a version of Heegard Floer homology. In the first part of … Read more
Quantum Anomalies Program Seminar: Ismail Zahed
Title: Chiral and Gravitational Anomalies on Fermi surfaces Speaker: Ismail Zahed Date: Monday, February 10, 2014 Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: A Fermi surface threaded by a Berry phase can be described by the Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) term. After gauging, it produces a five-dimensional Chern-Simons term in the action. I … Read more
Moduli Spaces Program Seminar: Kenji Fukaya
Title: Virtual fundamental chain, pseudo-holomorphic curve and Kuranishi structure Speaker: Kenji Fukaya Date: Friday, February 7, 2014 Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: I will start reviewing the previous talk about the local `universal’ family of deformation of Riemann surface plus curves. Then I will include two new points to discuss. … Read more
Moduli Spaces Program Seminar: Dusa McDuff, Columbia
Title: Kuranishi Atlases Speaker: Dusa McDuff, Columbia Date: Thursday, February 6, 2014 Time: 11:45am-1:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]