Title: Introduction to Categorified Braid Invariants Program: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Connections to Low-Dimensional Topology Speaker: Elisenda Grigsby, Boston College Date: Thursday, September 13, 2012 Time: 10:15am – 11:15am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: This talk provides background for the 1 p.m. topology seminar. We will discuss the construction of … Read more
Title: Algebra and Analysis of Quantum Integrable Models Related to $U_q(sl _2)$ Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Dr. Fedor Smirnov, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Hautes Energies Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Dr. Smirnov will give 4 lectures as a … Read more
Title: The Many Facets of Integrability in Gauge Theory Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Nikita Nekrasov, SCGP Stony Brook University Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: On the Hochschild (co)homology of the Fukaya Category Program: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Connections to Low-Dimensional Topology Week2 Speaker: Sheel Ganatra, MIT Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Time: 11:15am – 12:15pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Y-systems and Dilogarithm Identities Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Andras Szenes, University of Geneva Date: Thursday, September 5, 2012 Time: 3:30pm – 3:40pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: In 1991, Zamolodchikov discovered an intriguing rational recursion called the Y-system. The recursion has some remarkable periodicity properties, and relations to … Read more
Title: Gluing Analysis and Exponential Decay Estimate for Pseudo-holomorphic Curve with Bubbles Program: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Connections to Low-Dimensional Topology Week1 Speaker: Kenji Fukaya, Kyoto University Date: Thursday, September 5, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Introduction to Heegaard-Floer Homology and its Topological Applications Speaker: Peter Ozsvath, Columbia University Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place:Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: Heegaard Floer homology is a topological invariant constructed using methods from Lagrangian Floer homology. This invariant was designed to agree with and give … Read more
Title: Quantum Instability of the de Sitter Space Speaker: Alexander Polyakov, Princeton University Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place:Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Michael Assis is a research Assistant in the department of Physics at Stony Brook university pursuing a Phd in physics under Professor Barry McCoy; he earned a bachelors degree in both physics and mathematics from Taylor university and spent a year performing atmospheric physics research at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland studying noctilucent … Read more
Origami and Paper Folding Bridging Perspectives of Visual Arts and Sciences Dr. Erik Demaine is a Professor of Computer Science at MIT and was the youngest professor in the history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he joined their faculty in 2001 at the age of 20. In 2003 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship as a “computational … Read more
