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
Organized by Ron Donagi, Samuel Grushevsky, Sheldon Katz, and Edward Witten Dates: May 18 – 22, 2015 The goal of the workshop is to catalyze rapid development of the extension to super Riemann surfaces of the theory of Riemann surfaces and their moduli. We plan to bring together mathematicians and physicists working on Riemann surfaces … Read more
Organized by Lars Brink, Viatcheslav Mukhanov, and Nikita Nekrasov Dates: May 4 – 8, 2015 Fundamental Particle Physics and Cosmology are both at fascinating crossroads. With the start of the LHC at CERN, the world’s most advanced particle accelerator it has finally been possible to probe particle physics at far higher energies than before. Even … Read more
Application for workshop is now closed. Organized by Krzysztof Gawedzki, Boris Khesin, and Paul Wiegmann Dates: May 19 – 23, 2014 Geometric and group-theoretic methods lie at the foundation of modern studies in hydrodynamics. Recent applications of fluid dynamics require understanding of fundamental symmetries of fluids and infinite-dimensional groups featured by hydrodynamical equations. The geometric and topological hydrodynamics is a … Read more
Application for workshop is now closed. May 12-16, 2014, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Organizing Committee: Eduardo Gonzalez, University of Massachusetts at Boston, eduardo@math.umb.edu Chris Woodward, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, ctw@math.rutgers.edu Workshop Description: The focus of the workshop will be on new developments in Landau-Ginzburg mirrors of varieties with group action, quasimap and gauged … Read more
Application for workshop is now closed. Organized by Kenji Fukaya, Dusa McDuff, and John Morgan Dates: March 17 – 21, 2014 This workshop will study various constructions of the virtual moduli cycle with the aim of clarifying exactly how to count pseudoholomorphic curves. Mostly it will look at the simplest case: that of closed … Read more