Title: Kahler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds III Speaker: Sir Simon Donaldson, Imperial College Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The talk will be based on joint work with Xiuxiong Chen and Song Sun.The existence … Read more
Title: O(n) loops in complex magnetic field coupled to 2D gravity: Lee-Yang and Langer singularities Speaker: Ivan Kostov, IPhT, Saclay Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The $O(n)$ loop model on planar graphs is solved in presence of constant … Read more
Title: Kahler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds II Speaker: Sir Simon Donaldson, Imperial College Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The talk will be based on joint work with Xiuxiong Chen and Song Sun. The … Read more
Title: String Topology and Cotangent Bundles Speaker: Mohammed Abouzaid, Columbia Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Time: 2:15pm – 3:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: I will try to give an introductory account of the isomorphism between loop homology and the symplectic cohomology of cotangent bundles. The main … Read more
Title: Kahler-Einstein Metrics on Fano Manifolds Speaker: Sir Simon Donaldson, Imperial College Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: The talk will be based on joint work with Xiuxiong Chen and Song Sun. The existence … Read more
Last Thursday was the first International Culinary Masters Series in the SCGP cafe. The series began with Italy and focused on its distinct cuisine and wine. Participants arrived to find an array of colorful, fresh ingredients, and were taught how to prepare four recipes from start to finish. This will also continue in each … Read more
Title: Embeddings of Non-orientable Surfaces in $L(p,q) \times I$ Speaker: Adam Levine, Brandeis Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: We use the Heegaard Floer homology correction terms to obstruct finding essential embeddings of closed, non-orientable surfaces in the product … Read more
Title: On Complexified Liouville Equation Speaker: Leon Takhtajan, Stony Brook University Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:45pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Boundary Condition Changing Operators and Singular Vectors Virasoro and Affine Lie Algebra Modules Speaker: Anton Nazarov, Chebyshev Laboratory, St. Petersburg Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: We consider the behaviour of CFT correlation functions with respect to … Read more
Title: A-infinity Structures in Symplectic Geometry Speaker: Jun-Tun Wu, University of Oregon Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Time: 2:15pm – 3:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: We introduce the notion of an A-infinity space which is a global version of A-infinity algebras. We discuss an … Read more
