In this issue of the Newsletter

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)  

Lecture Series by Simon Donaldson

Title: “Kahler Geometry” The lectures will cover quite a lot of ground systematically, including the work on Kahler Einstein metrics in the positive case (Fano Varieties) and the algorithm’s mentioned in Burt Ovrut’s talk a few weeks back.  

G2 manifolds: September 2 – 5, 2014

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

Quantum Anomalies Program Seminar: Juerg Froehlich (ETH, Zurich and IAS, Princeton)

Title: The role of anomaly inflow in the theory of chiral quantum fluids Speaker:  Juerg Froehlich (ETH, Zurich and IAS, Princeton) Date: Thursday, April 10, 2014 Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       [box, type=”download”]Watch the video. [/box] Abstract: To start with, I will discuss the electrodynamics of incompressible 2D electron gases exhibiting the quantum Hall effect. … Read more

SCGP Spring 2014 Newsletter

The Simons Center is pleased to announce the Spring 2014 newsletter. Read on for more details about our spring programs, workshops, special lectures and events: Click here for SCGP Spring 2014 Newsletter  

Illustrating Geometry Art Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: June 19 to August 1, 2014 Featuring the artwork of Saul Schleimer and Henry Segerman Opening Reception, Thursday June 19: 5:00pm, Exhibition Viewing and Wine and Cheese Reception – Simons Center Art Gallery and Lobby. 6:00pm, Artist Talk by Henry Segerman, “Sculpture in four-dimensions” – Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Room 102. 6:45pm, Artist Talk … Read more

José Menor & RMSonce Project Mathematical Concert, Thursday April 24

Thursday April 24, 2014, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Auditorium, Room 103 Reception at 5:00pm Performance at 5:30pm Featuring José Menor:  Piano, Keyboard, Laptop RMSonce: Laptop, Visuals Performance Description: José Menor & RMSonce Project is an audiovisual proposal that brings together two Spanish artists coming from different fields (classical music and experimental electronics), who … Read more

Regularization Of Moduli Spaces Of Pseudholomorphic Curves – Katrin Wehrheim

This course aims to build a knowledge base on regularization techniques for moduli spaces arising from geometric PDE’s (in particular pseudholomorphic curves). Regularization techniques of the type discussed here were first developed in the 1980s as part of the construction of Gromov-Witten invariants (from pseudoholomorphic curves) and Donaldson invariants (from Yang-Mills instantons). They have since … Read more

Quantum Anomalies Program Seminar: Kristan Jensen

Title: Deriving anomaly-induced response from thermal equilibrium. Part II Speaker: Kristan Jensen, Stony Brook University Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014 Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: Now that we believe that anomalies manifest themselves through macroscopic transport in thermal states, I’ll show you how to derive that transport from basic considerations of Euclidean field theory. To do … Read more