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Outreach Lectures – Book Talks

Chris Quigg in Conversation with George Sterman. Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature Robert P. Crease. The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Moduli

By Steven Bradlow, Daniel Halpern-Leistner, Victoria Hoskins, Margarida Melo, and Anna Wienhard  

Brownian Motion and Dirichlet Zeros

By Giuseppe Mussardo Professor of Theoretical Physics, SISSA (Trieste)  
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In the news

Uppsala University, Sweden, Awards Prestigious Honorary Doctorate to Dr. Nikita Nekrasov
The Simons Center Congratulates Board of Trustee Chairman Yakov Eliashberg, co-recipient of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, along with Professor Claire Voisin
Nikita Nekrasov Awarded 2023 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Professor Zohar Komargodski Awarded the Tomassoni Chisesi Prize

Tracking the Cosmos Art Exhibition: Closing Reception Thursday November 20

Opening Reception, Thursday October 9 Gallery Viewing and Wine and Cheese Reception: 5:00pm Artist Talk by Eve Andree Laramee: 5:30pm, “Kepler: poetic, noetic and beyond” Artist Talk by Michael Benson, Monday November 10 Reception at 5:00pm Talk at 5:30pm in SCGP 102 Speaker: Michael Benson Title:  Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time Abstract:  Of all the sciences, … Read more

G2 Manifolds Program Seminar: Tommaso Pacini

Title: Program: G2 Manifolds Program Seminar Speaker: Tommaso Pacini, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Date: Thursday, September 11, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]

G2 Manifolds Program Seminar: Mark Haskins

Title: Program: G2 Manifolds Program Seminar Speaker: Mark Haskins, Imperial College Date: Thursday, September 11, 2014 Time: 9:30am – 10:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]

G2 Manifolds Program Seminar: David Morrison

Title: Program: G2 Manifolds Program Seminar Speaker: David Morrison, UC Santa Barbara Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]

Program Seminar by John Morgan: A Topologist looks at Sheaf Theory

As part of the Simons Center program, Interactions of Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology with Physics through Algebra and Geometry, John Morgan will give a series of lectures (8 to 10 lectures) on Sheaf Theory with applications to duality.  The course will be aimed at intermediate graduate students and above. The only prerequisite is a basic course … Read more

Geometric Flows

Geometric Flows Organized by Simon Brendle, Xiuxiong Chen,  Simon Donaldson, and Yuanqi Wang October 13 – December 19, 2014 Since its invention in 1982, Hamilton’s Ricci flow has become a central tool in global differential geometry. In particular, the Ricci flow has played a central role in Perelman’s proof of the Poincare conjecture, as well as … Read more

G2 Manifolds Program Seminar: Song Sun

Title: Algebraic Structure on Gromov-Hausdorff Limits Program: G2 Manifolds Program Seminar Speaker: Song Sun, Stony Brook University Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]

G2 Manifolds Program Seminar: Hans-Joachim Hein

Title: Ricci-flat Metrics on A_k Singularities Program: G2 Manifolds Program Seminar Speaker: Hans-Joachim Hein, University of Nantes Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 Time: 9:30am – 10:30am Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract: By work of Gauntlett-Martelli-Sparks-Yau, the 3-dimensional A_k singularity admits no Ricci-flat Kähler cone metrics for k … Read more

SCGP Weekly Talk: WHAT IS … F-theory? by David Morrison

Title: “WHAT IS … F-theory?” Speaker: David Morrison, UC Santa Barbara Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center         [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box] Abstract:  In the spirit of the “WHAT IS …” series of articles in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, I will … Read more

G2 Manifolds Program Seminar: Johannes Nordstrom

Title: Program: G2 Manifolds Program Seminar Speaker: Johannes Nordstrom, University of Bath Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video.[/box]

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