Title: Quantum Sheaf Cohomology Speaker: Sheldon Katz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Given a smooth toric variety X and a deformation E of its tangent bundle TX, a quantum sheaf cohomology ring is rigorously defined … Read more
Speaker: Maurizio Mattia (Department of Technologies and Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità) Title: Collective Dynamics of Interacting Spiking Neurons: From Theory to Experiments When: Monday, April 16, 2012 Time: 11:30 am Where: Simons Center, Lecture Hall 102 Abstract: The computational capabilities of the nervous system are the result of nonlinear dynamics emerging from the exchange among neurons of … Read more
For more information about the Simons Postdoctoral Fellows Meetings, please visit the Simons Foundation webpage. Simons Postdoctoral Fellows Meeting Regular Session Abstracts PLENARY SPEAKERS Nima Arkani‐Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study The End of Space-Time The unification of quantum mechanics and gravity implies that the notion of space-time cannot be fundamental, but must emerge from more primitive building blocks. Recently some remarkable clues for a new … Read more
Title: From Higgs Bundles to Stability Conditions Speaker: Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Miami Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Time: 2:10pm – 3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: In this talk we will look at a new approach to classical questions of Birational Geometry – from the point of view of the … Read more
Title: Seiberg-Witten Geometry of N=2 Superconformal Theories, and ADE Bundles on Curves Speaker: Nikita Nekrasov, SCGP Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]
Title: Asymptotics in Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT Speaker: Jørgen Andersen, Aarhus University Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
Title: Superconformal Theories in Three Dimensions with (almost) Maximal Supersymmetry Speaker: Anton Kapustin, California Institute of Technology Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Time: 1:00Pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center
Title: SCGP Colloquium, “Quantum Spin Chains and Quiver Gauge Theories” Speaker: Nick Dorey, University of Cambridge Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center
Title: Conifold Transitions, M-theory, and Special Divisors on Riemann Surfaces Speaker: Dave Morrison, University of California, Santa Barbara Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
Title: Topological Field Theory and Non-Abelian Gerbes Speaker: Anton Kapustin, California Institute of Technology Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
