Title:“”Scalar Curvature and Asymptotic Chow Stability of Projective Bundles and Blowups”” Speaker: Alberto Della Vedova, Princeton University Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 Time: 10:30am – 11:30am Place:Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: By means of existence results of constant scalar curvature Kaehler metrics we show that a projective bundle over a smooth curve … Read more
Title:“Factorization Algebras and Affine Kac-Moody Vertex Algebras” Speaker: Owen Gwilliam, Northwestern University Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Time: 10:00am – 11:30am Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: The notion of a factorization algebra was introduced by Beilinson and Drinfeld in their work on conformal field theory and subsequently variants of their notion have … Read more
Title:“Special Test Configurations and K-stability of Fano Manifold” Speaker: Chi Li, Princeton University Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: In order to find out whether there is a Kahler-Einstein metric on any Fano manifold, special degenerations and generalized Futaki invariant were introduced by … Read more
Title:“Collapsing Behavior of the Kähler-Ricci flow and its Singularity Analysis” Speaker: Frederick Tsz-Ho Fong, Stanford University Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Time: 02:30pm – 03:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss my recent works on the collapsing behavior of the Kähler-Ricci flow. The first work … Read more
Title: “Loop Differential K-theory” Speaker: Scott Wilson, Queens College, CUNY Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Time: 10:00am – 11:30am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: I’ll introduce an extension of the Chern-Simons form, associated to a path of connections on a bundle over a manifold M, to a differential form on the … Read more
Title:“Dimers, Circle Patterns and Integrability” Speaker: Dr. Rick Kenyon, Brown University Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Time: 1:00PM – 2:00PM Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: Two metric triangulations are said to be discretely conformally equivalent if one can multiply the metric by a constant at each vertex to convert one … Read more
Dates: 12-16 Dec 2011 Objectives: The aim of the workshop is to present recent progress and pose new questions at the interface between algebraic geometry, noncommutative algebra, representation theory, and string theory. The main topics will include noncommutative resolutions of singularities, superpotential and Calabi-Yau algebras, matrix factorizations, and the McKay correspondence. Workshop organizers: Charlie Beil, … Read more
Title: N=1 Generalizations of T_N Theories Speaker: Ibrahima Bah, University of Michigan Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Time: 11:30AM – 12:30PM Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center
Title: Equivariant K Theory of the Hilbert Scheme and the Ambient Grassmannian Speaker: Erik Carlsson Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center
Sir Michael Atiyah visited the Simons Center in the Fall of 2011 during which time he met with Nigel Hitchin, Robion Kirby, and John Morgan. In this conversation Sir Michael responds to questions which lead him to reflect on his life in mathematics and to expound on his view of mathematics.
