Title: Topological Phases of Matter: Quantum Hall Effect and Beyond Speaker: Nick Read Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides.[/box]
Title: Symmetry Protected and Symmetry Enriched Topological Phases Speaker: Lukasz Fidkowski Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: (n+ε)-Dimensional TQFTs and a Higher Dimensional Deligne Conjecture Speaker: Kevin Walker Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides.[/box] Abstract: The classical Deligne conjecture (now a theorem with several published proofs) says that chains on the little … Read more
Title: Chern-Weil Forms and Abstract Homotopy Theory Speaker: Dan Freed, UTexas Date: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: We begin by asking some innocent sounding questions in differential geometry. We give a modern formulation which leads us to abstract homotopy … Read more
Title: Heegaard Floer Homology Solid Tori Speaker: Liam Watson, UCLA Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The Alexander trick shows that any Dehn twist along the meridian of a torus extends to a homeomorphism of the solid torus. In … Read more
Title: A master solution of the quantum Yang–Baxter equation and classical discrete integrable equations Speaker: Vladimir Bazhanov, ANU Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2013 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides.[/box] Abstract: We obtain a new solution of the star–triangle relation with positive … Read more
Title: Quantum Geometry of 3-Dimensional Lattices: Existence as Integrability Speaker: Vladimir Bazhanov, ANU Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. View the Slides.[/box] Abstract: We will review various connections between the theory of integrable quantum systems and discrete differential … Read more
Title: Anomalous Hydrodynamics of Fractional Quantum Hall States Speaker: Paul Wiegmann, University of Chicago Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: Anomalous hydrodynamics of Fractional Quantum Hall States.
Title: Completely Integrable Integral Operators and Correlation Functions Speaker: Vladimir Korepin, Stony Brook Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2013 Time: 11:45am – 12:45pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: Completely integrable integral operators generalize sin kernel, which was explained in the lecture of Professor Miwa. They have multiple applications: … Read more
Title: End-Periodic Index Theory Speaker: Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem calculates the index of anelliptic differential operator on a manifold with boundary, subject to certain boundary conditions that arise naturally in … Read more
