The Ehrenpreis Conjecture for Riemann Surfaces and the Surface Subgroup Theorem for Hyperbolic Three Manifolds

There will be a five lecture discussion-exposition of the new technique of Dr. Jeremy Kahn (Stony Brook University) and Dr. Vladimir Morkovic (Warwick) constructing mappings of constant negative curvature surfaces into certain targets, which are locally almost isometries. Participants Dennis Sullivan (Stony Brook) Scott Wolpert (Maryland) Ara Basmajian (CUNY) Sarah Koch (Harvard) Vaibhav Gadre (Harvard) … Read more

Branes and Bethe Ansatz in Supersymmetric Gauge Theories Workshop, March 21-25

Location: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics All talks before 12:00 will be held in Simons Center Room 313. All Talks after lunch will be held in the Simons Center Auditorium. Organizers: Nikita Nekrasov & Anton Kapustin Program: Monday 3/21 Tuesday 3/22 Wednesday 3/23 Thursday 3/24 Friday 3/25 8:30-9:30 Breakfast: Simons Center Cafe Breakfast: Simons Center … Read more

Workshop on Extremal Kähler Metrics, March 21 2011- March 25, 2011

Location: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Lecture Hall, Rm 102 Organizers: Xiu Xiong Chen, Claude LeBrun, Gang Tian Program:  Monday 3/21 Tuesday 3/22 Wednesday 3/23 Thursday 3/24 Friday 3/25 8:30-9:30 Breakfast: Simons Center Cafe Breakfast: Simons Center Cafe Breakfast: Simons Center Cafe Breakfast: Simons Center Cafe Breakfast: Simons Center Cafe 9:30-10:30 Jeff Cheeger [video] … Read more

Higher Spin Theories and Holography Workshop March 14 – March 18, 2011

[Download Poster] Location: Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Lecture Hall, RM 102 Organizers: Michael Douglas, Luca Mazzucato, Shlomo Razamat Participant List: Xavier Bekaert Alejandra Castro Chi-Ming Chang Dario Francia Simone Giombi Rajesh Gopakumar Thomas Hartman Carlo Iazeolla Antal Jevicki Kewang Jin Igor Klebanov Sung-sik Lee Ramalingam Loganayagam Hong Liu Alex Maloney Kyriakos Papadodimas Joao … Read more

Simons Center Workshop on Differential Cohomology January 10, 2011- January 14, 2011

Monday, January 10 9:30-10:30 Dan Freed,  “Lecture #1 of Minicourse, “Some Uses of Differential Cohomology and Twisted K-Theory in Quantum Field Theory and String Theory” [video] 10:30-11:00  Coffee Break 11:00-12:00 Mike Hopkins, “Differential Cohomology for General Cohomology Theories and One Physical Motivation” [video] 12:00-3:00 Lunch Break 3:00-4:00 Jim Simons, “Roots of Differential Characters, The Characteristic Diagram and … Read more

Building Inauguration Conference

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Building Inauguration Conference Wednesday, November 3, 2010 9:00 am    Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh From Algebraic Geometry to Physics – a Personal Perspective [video] 10:00 am  Coffee Break, Atrium, 1st Floor 10:45 am  Alexander Polyakov, Princeton University [video] 11:45 am  Lunch 2:00 pm   Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University and Columbia … Read more

Simons Summer Workshops 2003 through 2010

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