Title: A Further Look at Verdier Duality Program Website: Interactions of Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology with Physics through Algebra and Geometry Speaker: John Morgan Date: Friday, March 20, 2015 Time: 10:00am – 11:30am Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: We examine Verdier duality for locally compact spaces … Read more
Title: Resurgence and trans-series in physics Speaker: Gerald Dunne, UConn Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: Resurgent asymptotic analysis using trans-series has recently been applied to a wide variety of problems in physics, including matrix models, … Read more
Title: A Further Look at Verdier Duality Program Website: Interactions of Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology with Physics through Algebra and Geometry Speaker: John Morgan Date: Friday, March 13, 2015 Time: 10:00am – 11:30am Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: We examine Verdier duality for locally compact spaces … Read more
Title: Simple models of complex biological systems Speaker: Sergei Maslov, BNL Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. View the Slides. [/box] Abstract: We are ultimate complex systems ourselves and are surrounded by other complex systems in Nature, technology, and society. These … Read more
Title: A Further Look at Verdier Duality Program Website: Interactions of Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology with Physics through Algebra and Geometry Speaker: John Morgan Date: Friday, March 06, 2015 Time: 02:45pm – 04:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: We examine Verdier duality for locally compact spaces … Read more
Title: Integrability and the Conformal Field Theory of the Higgs branch Speaker:Â Bogdan Stefanski, City University, London Date: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 Time:Â 01:30pm – 02:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: I will review how integrability can be used to understand the spectral problem (including massless modes) of Type … Read more
General Public Lecture Tuesday March 31, 2015 Wine and Cheese Reception: 5:00pm, Simons Center Lobby and Art Gallery Lecture: 5:30pm, Simons Center Auditorium, Room 103 Title:The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics Abstract: At the frontiers of physics we search for the principles that might unify all the forces of nature and we strive to understand the … Read more
Title: Many faces of Renormalization Speaker: Misha Lyubich, Stony Brook Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: Renormalization is a central idea of contemporary Dynamical Systems Theory, adapted from Statistical Physics and Quantum Field Theory. It allows one to control small scale … Read more
Title: A Further Look at Verdier Duality Program Website: Interactions of Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology with Physics through Algebra and Geometry Speaker: John Morgan Date: Friday, February 20, 2015 Time: 02:45pm – 04:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: We examine Verdier duality for locally compact spaces of finite … Read more
Title: Instantons on intersecting worlds, and many-body systems Speaker: Nikita Nekrasov Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Time: 01:00pm – 02:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center [box, type=”download”]Watch the Video. [/box] Abstract: I will describe a compactification of the moduli space of instantons in gauge theory on the union of two copies of Euclidean space R^4 … Read more
