Title: Bordered Heegaard Floer Homology Speaker: Peter Ozsvath, Princeton University Date: Thursday, March 14, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:45pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: Bordered Floer homology is an invariant for three-manifolds with boundary, developed in collaboration with Robert Lipshitz and Dylan Thurston. I will outline the construction, and … Read more
Title: Two-point Schramm’s Formula and SLE-8/3 Bubbles Speaker: Dmitry Belyaev, Oxford Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Simmons and Cardy recently predicted a formula for the probability that the chordal SLE$_{8/3}$ path passes to the left of two points in the upper … Read more
Title: Quantum non Demolition Measurements, Martingales and Exchangeable Variables Speaker: Michel Bauer, Saclay Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: More than 85 years after the discovery of the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, the meaning of quantum measurement is still debated. The notion … Read more
Title: Bounds on Embeddings of Rational homology Balls in Symplectic 4-manifolds Speaker: Tatyana Khodorovskiy, Hunter College of CUNY Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: The rational blow-down procedure for smooth 4-manifolds was defined in 1998 by Fintushel and Stern, which is a generalization … Read more
Title: Spin Correlations in the Planar Ising Model via Fermionic Observables. Part II. Speaker: Dmitry Chelkak (Steklov Institute (PDMI RAS) & Chebyshev Lab, St.Petersburg) Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Based on recent joint projects with Clement Hongler and Konstantin Izyurov. The main goal of the minicourse … Read more
Title: Elliptic Curves and Dynamics Speaker: Jack Milnor, Stony Brook University Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: The talk with first describe some fascinating examples due to Bonifant and Dabija of holomorphic maps of the real or complex projective plane which carry an … Read more
Title: Discrete Holomorphicity and Quantized Affine Algebras Speaker: Paul Zinn-Justin, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Time: 10:30am – 11:30am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
Title: Lagrangian Caps in High Dimensional Symplectic Manifolds Speaker: Emmy Murphy, MIT Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:45pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: I will present a recent result (joint with Yakov Eliashberg) demonstrating the existence of exact Lagrangian cobordisms with a loose Legendrian in the negative end, in all dimensions … Read more
Title: Finite Size Emptiness Formation Probability for the XXZ Spin Chain at $Delta=-1/2$ Speaker: Luigi Cantini, ENS Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:45pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Around 2000, Razumov and Stroganov have noticed that the wavefunction of the ground state of the XXZ spin chain at $Delta=-frac{1}{2}$ (a physical … Read more
Title: Spin Correlations in the Planar Ising Model via Fermionic Observables. Part I. Speaker: Dmitry Chelkak (Steklov Institute (PDMI RAS) & Chebyshev Lab, St.Petersburg) Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Based on recent joint projects with Clement Hongler and Konstantin Izyurov. The main goal of the minicourse … Read more
