Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics 2010: Talks and Events

(all talks in Math Common Room - Math Tower 4-125 unless otherwise stated)
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July 26, 2010, Monday
9:00AM Breakfast
9:45AM Welcome and Orientation
10:00AM Luis Fernando Alday (IAS) Y-system for scattering amplitudes [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
July 27, 2010, Tuesday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Mina Aganagic (Berkeley/LBL) Wall crossing, quivers and crystals [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
7:00PM Party at Martin's
July 28, 2010, Wednesday
9:00AM Breakfast
11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) Samson Shatashvili (Trinity College Dublin and IHES) SUSY gauge theories and quantum integrability [Video]
July 29, 2010, Thursday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Vasily Pestun (Harvard) Supersymmetric 't Hooft loops in N=4 SYM, localization and instantons in 2d YM [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
July 30, 2010, Friday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Sergei Gukov (Caltech) Chern-Simons theory via vortex counting [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
August 2, 2010, Monday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Sergio Cecotti (SISSA Trieste Italy) R-twisting in N=2 SUSY and (some) application [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
August 3, 2010, Tuesday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Anton Kapustin (Caltech) Exact computation of the functional integral for supersymmetric gauge theories in three dimensions [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
August 4, 2010, Wednesday
9:00AM Breakfast
11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) Nathan Seiberg (IAS) Supercurrents and constraints on SUGRA [Video]
August 5, 2010, Thursday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Andrew Neitzke (University of Texas at Austin) 4d and 2d-4d wall-crossing [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
7:00PM Party at Martin's
August 6, 2010, Friday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Leonardo Rastelli (Stony Brook) The 4d superconformal index, S-duality and 2d topological field theory [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
August 9, 2010, Monday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Gregory Moore (Rutgers) Topics in wall-crossing [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
August 10, 2010, Tuesday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech) Instability and Chern-Simons terms [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
7:00PM Party at Simons'
August 11, 2010, Wednesday
9:00AM Breakfast
11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) Ashoke Sen (Harishchandra Research Institute) Extremal black hole entropy [Video]
August 12, 2010, Thursday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Robbert Dijkgraaf (University of Amsterdam) Chern-Simons theory and topological strings [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
4:30PM Valerie Gonzalez (Aga Khan University) Special Lecture: Geometry as mode of visual expression and cultural signifier in Islam
August 13, 2010, Friday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Daniel Freedman (MIT) Superamplitudes and counterterms for N=8 supergravity [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
August 16, 2010, Monday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook) The hottest science experiment on the planet: Exploring the strong interaction at RHIC [Video]
2:00PM Steven Gubser (Princeton) Formal theory and aspects of RHIC collisions [Video]
3:00PM Snack
August 17, 2010, Tuesday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Amihay Hanany (Imperial College London) Chiral operators on hypermultiplet moduli spaces [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
August 18, 2010, Wednesday
9:00AM Breakfast
11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) Juan Maldacena (IAS) An operator product expansion for lightlike Wilson loops [Video]
August 19, 2010, Thursday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Alexander Polyakov (Princeton) Infrared features of unstable vacua [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack
7:00PM Party at John Morgan's
August 20, 2010, Friday
9:00AM Breakfast
10:00AM Hong Liu (MIT) Strange metals and quantum phase transitions from holography [Video]
2:00PM Informal discussions
3:00PM Snack