Synergy: Dance, Data, Sculpture: Opening Reception July 9th, 2013

The Simons Center Art Program presents “Synergy:Â Dance, Data, Sculpture” Exhibition running through July and August 2013 featuring: Wine and Cheese Opening Reception July 9th, 2013 at 5:30pm Artist in ...

Simons Summer Workshop 2013, July 22 to August 16

We are pleased to announce the 2013 Summer Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics from July 22 to August 16. This workshop is the sixth conducted by the Simons Center ...

Graduate Workshop on Kahler Geometry, June 24 – July 5, 2013

Workshop in Kahler Geometry-Summer 2013 Recently there have been spectacular developments in Kahler geometry which cut across a wide variety of mathematical fields ranging from the analysis of PDE’s to ...

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CANCELLED Talk: Edward Witten (IAS) Thursday June 20

Our apologies to all for the inconvenience, but unfortunately, the public lecture ...

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Dr. Tony Tyson (LSST, UC Davis) “LSST: New Science Frontiers” Thursday May 2nd, 5:00pm

Featuring Tony Tyson from LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope). When:  Thursday May 2nd, 5:00pm at the Simons Center Auditorium, room 103 Wine and Cheese Reception at 5:00pm, Lecture at 5:30pm Title:  “LSST: New Science Frontiers” Speaker:  Dr. Tony Tyson; LSST, [...]

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Topological Phases of Matter Program Seminar: Maissam Barkeshli, Stanford

Title: Defects in Topologically Ordered Quantum Matter Speaker: Maissam Barkeshli, Stanford Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center      

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Topological Phases of Matter Program Seminar: Michael Stone, University of Illinois

Title: An Analogue of Hawking Radiation in the Quantum Hall Effect Speaker: Michael Stone, University of Illinois Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       Abstract We use the identification of [...]

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Seminar by Mohammad Farajzadeh Tehrani, Princeton

Title: Real Gromov-Witten Theory In Genus Zero and Beyond Speaker: Mohammad Farajzadeh Tehrani, Princeton Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center       Abstract There are two types of $J$-holomorphic spheres in [...]

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Topology Seminar Series: Melissa Liu, Columbia

Title: The Yang-Mills Equations Over Klein Surfaces Speaker: Melissa Liu, Columbia Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center     Abstract In “The Yang-Mills equations over Riemann surfaces”, Atiyah and Bott studied Yang-Mills functional [...]

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Symplectic Topology and Mirror Symmetry: Christopher Woodward

Title: No Escape: Invariance of Quantum Cohomology of Toric Orbifolds Under Flops Speaker: Christopher Woodward Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Time: 2:15pm – 3:15pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center       Abstract I will describe an interpretation, joint with [...]

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SCGP Weekly Talk: Nick Read, Yale

Title: Topological Phases of Matter: Quantum Hall Effect and Beyond Speaker: Nick Read Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center        

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Topological Phases of Matter Program Seminar: Lukasz Fidkowski

Title: Symmetry Protected and Symmetry Enriched Topological Phases Speaker: Lukasz Fidkowski Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center        

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Topology Seminar Series: Steven Sivek, Harvard

Title: Naturality In Sutured Monopole Homology Speaker: Steven Sivek, Harvard Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center         Abstract: Kronheimer and Mrowka defined a version of monopole Floer homology which [...]

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Graduate Workshop on Geometry of Hilbert schemes: November 18 – 22, 2013

Organized by Mark de Cataldo,  Alexander Kirillov, Jr., and Robert Lazarsfeld. Dates: November 18 – 22, 2013 Given a smooth algebraic surface X, the collection of all n-tuples of points on X (or, more precisely, finite subschemes of X of length n) [...]

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Topology Seminar Series: Kevin Walker

Title: (n+ε)-Dimensional TQFTs and a Higher Dimensional Deligne Conjecture Speaker: Kevin Walker Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center         Abstract: The classical Deligne conjecture (now a theorem with several [...]

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