workshops

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

Organized by Dan Romik, Brian Rider, and Alexander Soshnikov Dates: September 7 – 11, 2015 The first day of the workshop (September 7th, 2015) is the U.S. holiday of Labor Day. This will be an informal day during the workshop with one or two morning talks and a social event in the afternoon. Please note: … Read more