workshops

Mathematical Aspects of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory: February 26-March 1, 2024

Organized by: Benjamin Basso (Ecole Normale Superieure) Lance Dixon (SLAC/Stanford U.) Jaroslav Trnka (UC Davis) Anastasia Volovich (Brown) Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory have a rich mathematical structure, involving Grassmannians and polytopes, the amplituhedron, tropicalization, cluster algebras, Hopf algebras, motivic zeta values, multiple polylogarithms and Galois theory, elliptic polylogarithms and Calabi-Yau geometries, and Y … Read more

Recent developments in Lagrangian Floer theory: March 14 – 18, 2022

Organized by: Kenji Fukaya (SCGP), Yanki Lekili (Imperial College, London), Chris Woodward (Rutgers University) The theme of the workshop is structural properties of Lagrangian Floer theory and its applications. Topics will include the behavior of Floer cohomology under various kinds of surgery; formulas for the behavior of disk potentials under Lagrangian surgery or mutation; potentials … Read more

Recent Advances on Scalar Curvature Problems: June 27 – July 1, 2022

Organized by: Alessandro Carlotto (ETH Zurich), Marcus Khuri (Stony Brook University), Philippe G. LeFloch (Sorbonne Univ.), Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford University) Problems involving the scalar curvature of a Riemannian manifold (prescribed curvature, existence, uniqueness, comparison, convergence, rigidity, regularity, etc.) arise in many areas of mathematics and physics. Over the past decade, there has been spectacular progress … Read more

5d N=1 SCFTs and Gauge Theories on Brane Webs (Postponed)

Organized by: Amihay Hanany (Imperial College London), Marcus Sperling (Southeast U., Nanjing), Antoine Bourget (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris and IPhT, Saclay), Julius Grimminger (Imperial College London) Five dimensional (5d) Lagrangian gauge theories are non-renormalizable, however many 5d N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories can be understood as effective infrared (IR) descriptions of 5d or 6d conformal fixed points … Read more

Geometry of (S)QFT: September 20-24, 2021 (Remote event)

Organized by: Ibou Bah (Johns Hopkins University), Shlomo Razamat (Technion) Quantum field theory (QFT) is a universal language used to describe a wide variety of phenomena in Nature, including elementary particles, condensed matter systems, and cosmology. Despite its remarkable successes, novel toolkits are needed for exploring the landscape of QFTs and for computing and characterizing … Read more

Sphere Packing and the Conformal Bootstrap: December 14-18, 2020

Organized by Henry Cohn, Thomas Hartman, Dalimil Mazac, Leonardo Rastelli and Maryna Viazovska This workshop will assemble a group of mathematicians and physicists with diverse expertise to explore a new intriguing connection between discrete geometry and quantum field theory. This connection arises from a recent realization that certain powerful linear programming bounds on sphere packings … Read more

Simons Center 10th Anniversary Lectures, November 9, 2020

On November 9, 2020, the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics will hold a 10th anniversary celebration to mark 10 years since the building’s inauguration. The festivities will include a day of conference talks given by experts in the field and friends of the Simons Center on the following topics; highlights of theoretical Physics and Mathematics … Read more

Tau Functions, Correlation Functions and Applications: August 30 – September 3, 2021 (Remote Event)

Organized by: Marco Bertola (Concordia University and SISSA), John Harnad (Centre de recherches mathematiques), Jacques Hurtubise (McGill University), Alexander Its (IUPUI) Dmitry Korotkin (Concordia University)  Tau functions are key ingredients in the modern theory of integrable systems. In the classical  dynamical systems setting, they appear as generating functions for solutions of integrable hierarchies, such as … Read more

Virtual Workshop Floer homology in low-dimensional topology: January 11-15, 2021

Organized by: Matthew Hedden, Tom Mrowka, Olga Plamenevskaya, Jacob Rasmussen This event has been changed to a Zoom Conference. There will be two talks every day (at 1:00pm and 3:00pm, U.S. Eastern Time)  as well as informal discussion time following each talk. This workshop will explore topics of current interest in the theory of Floer … Read more