SCGP Weekly Talk: Nima Arkani- Hamed, IAS

Title: The Amplituhedron Speaker: Nima Arkani- Hamed, IAS Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: Perturbative scattering amplitudes in gauge theories have remarkable properties and hidden infinite dimensional symmetries that are completely obscured in the conventional formulation of field … Read more

Scattering Amplitudes Program Seminar: Donal O’Connell

Title: Unexpected Relations Between Yang-Mills and Gravity Amplitudes Speaker: Donal O’Connell Date: Thursday, September 13, 2013 Time: 11:00am – 12:30 pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center         [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]  

Mock Modular Program Seminar: John Duncan

Title: Mock Modular Program Seminar Speaker: John Duncan, Case Western Reserve University Date: Thursday, September 12, 2013 Time: 11:00am – 12:30 pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center         [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]  

SCGP/SBU Topology/Geometry Seminar: Richard Bamler, Princeton

Title: There Are Finitely Many Surgeries in Perelman’s Ricci Flow Speaker: Richard Bamler Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: Although the Ricci flow with surgery has been used by Perelman to solve the Poincaré and … Read more

SCGP Weekly Talk: Matthias Gaberdiel

Title: Mathieu Moonshine Speaker: Matthias Gaberdiel Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: The proposal of Eguchi, Ooguri and Tachikawa for an M24 symmetry underlying the elliptic genus of K3 is reviewed. I shall then explain … Read more

Mock Modular Forms Program Seminar: Katrin Wendland

Title: Symmetry-Surfing the Moduli Space of Kummer K3s II Speaker: Katrin Wendland Date: Friday, September 6, 2013 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box]

Scattering Amplitudes Program Seminar: Gregory Korchemsky

Title: Hidden Symmetries Scattering Amplitudes Speaker: Gregory Korchemsky Date: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: This will be a basic lecture explaining the discovery of dual conformal symmetry in planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory as well another examples. The lecture will … Read more