Title: From Feynman Integrals to Polylogarithms Speaker: Johannes Henn Date: Friday, August 30, 2013 Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm Place:Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box]
Title: Basics of Scattering Amplitudes Speaker: Henriette Elvang Date: Thursday, August 29, 2013 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box]
Title: The Role of Space Group Symmetries in Many Body Interacting Systems Speaker: Rahul Roy, UCLA Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract I will discuss the constraints placed by space group symmetries in two and three dimensions on the … Read more
Title: Condensation and orbifolding in Josephson-coupled fractional quantum Hall bilayers Speaker: Steve Simon, Oxford University Date: Friday, June 21, 2013 Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box]
Title: On the Classification of Short-Range Entangled States Speaker: Alexei Kitaev, Caltech Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box]
Title: Defects in Topologically Ordered Quantum Matter Speaker: Maissam Barkeshli, Stanford Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides.[/box]
Title: An Analogue of Hawking Radiation in the Quantum Hall Effect Speaker: Michael Stone, University of Illinois Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Listen to the lecture. View the Slides.[/box] Abstract We use the identification of the edge mode of a quantum Hall … Read more
Title: Real Gromov-Witten Theory In Genus Zero and Beyond Speaker: Mohammad Farajzadeh Tehrani, Princeton Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract There are two types of $J$-holomorphic spheres in a symplectic manifold invariant under an antisymplectic involution: those that have … Read more
Title: The Yang-Mills Equations Over Klein Surfaces Speaker: Melissa Liu, Columbia Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract In “The Yang-Mills equations over Riemann surfaces”, Atiyah and Bott studied Yang-Mills functional over a Riemann surface from the point of view of Morse … Read more
Title: No Escape: Invariance of Quantum Cohomology of Toric Orbifolds Under Flops Speaker: Christopher Woodward Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Time: 2:15pm – 3:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract I will describe an interpretation, joint with E. Gonzalez, of the critical values of the Givental potential for toric … Read more
