Organized by Tetsuo Deguchi, Anthony Guttman, Jean-Michel Maillet, Barry McCoy, and Alexander Zamolodchikov Dates: March 2 – 6, 2015 There is a fundamental paradox in statistical mechanics that we do exact computations on systems with very special symmetry properties and then apply the intuition gained to generic systems which do not have these symmetries. We … Read more
Organized by Sergei Gukov, Nuno Romao, and Samson Shatashvili Dates: November 3 – 7, 2014 Gauged sigma-models from Riemann surfaces to Kaehler targets have been an important ingredient in recent developments at the crossroads of quantum field theory, geometry and topology. Of particular interest are models that exhibit self-duality, since they are more amenable to rigorous treatment — they … Read more
Application for workshop  is now closed. Organized by Kevin Costello, Ryan Grady, Owen Gwilliam, and Si Li Dates: September 29 – October 3, 2014 The Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) formalism is a powerful method for constructing quantum field theories, notably gauge and supergravity theories. Recently, the language of derived geometry and homotopical algebra has provided a deeper interpretation … Read more
Organized by Philippe LeFloch, Mike Anderson, Sergiu Klainerman, and Jared Speck Dates: January 19 – 23, 2015 Einstein’s field equation of general relativity is one of the most important geometric partial differential equations. Over the past decade, the mathematical research on Einstein equation has made spectacular progress on many fronts, including the Cauchy problem, cosmic censorship, … Read more
Application for workshop is now closed. Organized by Samuel Grushevsky, Robert Lazarsfeld, and Eduard Looijenga Dates: July 7 – 18, 2014 In recent years, moduli of Riemann surfaces (or algebraic curves) have come to play an increasingly central role in several fields of mathematics, including algebraic and complex geometry, topology, Teichmuller dynamics, mathematical physics, and … Read more
Application for workshop is now closed. Organized by Simon Donaldson, Mark Haskins, and Dietmar Salamon Dates: September 2 – 5, 2014 This workshop seeks to connect recent developments and open questions in the theory of compact manifolds with special or exceptional holonomy (especially G_2 manifolds) with other areas of mathematics and theoretical physics: differential topology, algebraic … Read more
Organized by Robert Berman, Semyon Klevtsov, Paul Wiegmann, and Steve Zelditch Dates: June 15 – 19, 2015 This workshop is devoted to random surfaces, shapes and fields, in both physics and geometry. In statistical mechanics in two spatial dimensions random fields are associated with critical fluctuations of random geometric objects such as curves and surfaces. … Read more
Organized by Eugene Gorsky, Sergei Gukov, Mikhail Khovanov, Vivek Shende, and Piotr Sulkowski Dates: June 1 – 5, 2015 The aim of this workshop is to exchange current ideas in physics and mathematics related to knot homologies. Intimate relations between knots and physics, found around 25 years ago in the seminal work by Witten, grew … Read more
Organized by Nikita Nekrasov and Gerald Dunne Dates: March 16 – 20, 2015 Resurgence is a mathematical formalism that unifies perturbative and non-perturbative expansions into a single unified framework in the form of a “trans-series”, such that the entire trans-series is internally self-consistent with respect to Borel summation and analytic continuation of the couplings. While … Read more
Application for workshop is now closed. Organized by Anton Kapustin, Ludmil Katzarkov, Maxim Kontsevich, and Dmitri Orlov Dates: November 17 – 21, 2014 Please note* There is a banquet dinner on Wednesday November 19 – the price for to attend this dinner is $40. You can register and pay to attend the banquet via this weblink: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/933188 You may … Read more
