The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is pleased to announce the following talks during the week of Monday, April 6th - Saturday, April 11th
Program Talk: Frank Ferrari
Monday, April 6th at 11:15am in SCGP 313
Title: “On Finite Cutoff Holography and JT Gravity”
Program Mini-lecture: Jean-Marc Schlenker
Monday, April 6th at 2:00pm in SCGP 313
Title: “The geometry and renormalized volume of hyperbolic 3-manifolds”
Program Mini-Lecture: Jean-Marc Schlenker
Tuesday, April 7th at 11:15am in SCGP 313
Title: The geometry and renormalized volume of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Abstract: We will review basic properties of 3-dimensional hyperbolic manifolds, in particular convex co-compact manifolds. We will then introduce their renormalized volume, as well as the volume of their convex core, focusing on similarities in their key properties, and their relation. The course will present several old or more recent open problems, sometimes motivated by physics.
Program Mini-Lecture: Jean-Marc Schlenker
Wednesday, April 8th at 11:15am in SCGP 313
Title: The geometry and renormalized volume of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Abstract: We will review basic properties of 3-dimensional hyperbolic manifolds, in particular convex co-compact manifolds. We will then introduce their renormalized volume, as well as the volume of their convex core, focusing on similarities in their key properties, and their relation. The course will present several old or more recent open problems, sometimes motivated by physics.
SCGP Colloquium by Igor Rodnianski (Princeton)
Wednesday, April 8th at 1:00pm in 102
Title: Self-similarity: two examples of singularity formation.
Abstract: I will discuss and illustrate the role of self-similarity in singularity formation in PDE’s on two examples. The first is the role played by the self-similar solutions of the compressible Euler equations in the proof of a finite time blow up for the energy super-critical nonlinear Schrodinger and the compressible Navier-Stokes equations. The second is in the context of the Einstein vacuum equations of general relativity and involves a geometric notion of “twisted self-similarity” which plays an important role in the proof of existence of vacuum spacetimes with naked singularities.
Physics Seminar: Kasia Budzik
Wednesday, April 8th at 2:00pm in 313
Program Mini-Lecture: Yilin Wang
Thursday, April 9th at 11:15am in SCGP 313
Title: Action of SLE and its holographic expression as a renormalized volume
Program Mini-Lecture: Yilin Wang
Thursday, April 9th at 2:00pm in SCGP 313
Title: Action of SLE and its holographic expression as a renormalized volume
Analysis Seminar by Igor Rodnianski (Princeton)
Friday, April 10th at 11:00am in 102
Title: Critical collapse in 2+1 gravity
Abstract: I will discuss joint work with S. Cicortas addressing existence of naked singularities in 2+1 dimensional Einstein equations with negative cosmological constant which turn out to describe a transition from a non-collapsing to a black hole forming regime.
Program Mini-Lecture: Fredrik Viklund
Friday, April 10th at 11:15am in SCGP 313
Title: SLE and Random Geometry
Program Mini-Lecture: Fredrik Viklund
Friday, April 10th at 2:00pm in SCGP 313
Title: SLE and Random Geometry