Organized by Martin Hairer Stochastic partial differential equations allow to describe phenomena that vary in both space and time and are subject to random influences. They arise naturally in a variety of contexts, including the description of the large-scale behaviour of random systems in statistical mechanics, the modelling of forward interest rates, the description of … Read more
Organized by Marco Gualtieri, Nigel Hitchin, Ctirad Klimcik, Yolanda Lozano, Eoin Ó Colgáin, Martin Rocek, Konstantinos Sfetsos, and Daniel Thompson Dates: May 9 – 13, 2016 Over the last few years we have witnessed a resurgence of interest in geometrical facets of T-duality, with developments coming thick and fast on a number of fronts. The … Read more
Organized by: Sasha Abanov, Tankut Can, Anton Kapustin and Paul Wiegmann This workshop marks the start of the program “Geometry of Quantum Hall States” at the SCGP. While the program mostly focuses on recent advances in the geometric approach to the quantum Hall effect, the purpose of the workshop is to encourage a broader discussion … Read more
Organized by Arjun Bagchi, Glenn Barnich, Stephane Detournay, Daniel Grumiller, and Joan Simon Dates: April 4 – 8, 2016 Over the last fifteen years our understanding of quantum gravity in string theory has been transformed by the discovery and exploitation of D-branes and the AdS/CFT correspondence in string theory. The holographic principle, positing massive reduction … Read more
Organized by: Pavel Bleher, Vladimir Korepin and Bernard Nienhuis Dates: March 14-18, 2016 The workshop will be devoted to recent results on the six-vertex and related models. The bulk free energy in the six-vertex model was explicitly calculated for periodic boundary conditions by Lieb. Then other boundary conditions were studied. A very interesting case is … Read more
Organized by Simon Donaldson, Kenji Fukaya, Hans-Joachim Hein, Song Sun Dates: November 9 – 13, 2015 The subject of the workshop is the Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of sequences of Riemannian manifolds under a variety of curvature and other natural geometric bounds. Such Gromov-Hausdorff limits are typically highly singu- lar metric spaces. By studying their regularity properties, … Read more
Random Matrix Theory, Integrable Systems, and Topology in Physics, November 2-6, 2015 Organized by Yan Fyodorov, Mario Kieburg, and Jacobus Verbaarschot This is the second workshop in the Simons Center Program on Foundations and Application of Random Matrix Theory in Mathematics and Physics. This workshop will highlight future and recent applications of Random Matrix Theory … Read more
Organized by Xiuxiong Chen, Simon Donaldson Following the seminal ideas of Calabi, the existence of extremal and contant scalar curvature is a central problem in Kahler geometry. Over the past 30 years most attention has been paid to the special case of Kahler-Einstein metrics, but there is now renewed interest in the more general situation, … Read more
Symplectic and Algebraic Geometry in the Statistical Physics of Polymers Organized by Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia, Tetsuo Deguchi, Ochanomizu University, Elizabeth Denne, Washington and Lee University, Alexander Grosberg, NYU, Clayton Shonkwiler, Colorado State University. October 12-16, 2015 Polymer physics has a number of deep unanswered questions about ring polymers such as DNA minicircles and polymers … Read more
Dates: September 14-18, 2015 Organized by: Anton Kapustin and Alexander Kirillov Topological Quantum Field Theory (TQFT) was first introduced by Witten at the end of 1980s as physical theory. It was immediately followed by an avalanche of works by many authors, both mathematicians and physicists, among them Atiyah, Reshetikhin and Turaev, Segal,.. who showed TQFT … Read more
