THOMAS SPENCER, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
SYMMETRY, STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND RANDOM MATRICES
Lunedì 15 Ottobre 2012, ore 16:30
Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Via Saldini | |
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WALTER NOLL, Carnegie Mellon University
PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS WITHOUT COORDINATES
Giovedì 04 Ottobre 2012, ore 17:00
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Sala del Consiglio VII piano | |
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RONALD DEVORE, Texas A & M University
DOES IT PAY TO BE GREEDY ?
Martedì 03 Luglio 2012, ore 16:30
Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Via Saldini | |
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VLADIMIR MAZ YA, University of Liverpool, Department of Mathematical Sciences
HIGHER ORDER ELLIPTIC PROBLEMS IN NON-SMOOTH DOMAINS
Giovedì 28 Giugno 2012, ore 17:00
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Aula VII piano | |
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S.R.S. VARADHAN, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences – New York University
LARGE DEVIATION THEORY. A GENERAL SURVEY WITH SOME RECENT UNUSUAL APPLICATIONS
Mercoledì 13 Giugno 2012, ore 16:30
Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Via Saldini | |
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XENIA DE LA OSSA, University of Oxford
GEOMETRY OF HETEROTIC STRING COMPACTIFICATIONS
Venerdì 01 Giugno 2012, ore 17:00
Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Via Saldini |
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I will discuss the geometry of heterotic string compactifications with fluxes. The compactifications on 6 dimensional manifolds which preserve N=1 supersymmetry in 4 dimensions must be complex conformally balanced manifolds which admit a now-where vanishing holomorphic (3,0)-form, together with a holomorphic vector bundle on the manifold which must admit a
Hermitian Yang-Mills connection. The flux, which can be viewed as a torsion, is the obstruction to the manifold being Kahler. I will describe how these compactifications are connected to the more traditional compactifications on Calabi-Yau manifolds through geometric transitions like flops and conifold transitions. For instance, one can construct solutions by flopping rational curves in a Calabi-Yau manifold in such a way that the resulting manifold is no longer Kahler. Time permitting, I will discuss open problems, for example the understanding of the the moduli space of heterotic
compactifications and the related problem of determining the massless
spectrum in the effective 4 dimensional supersymmetric field theory. The study of these compactifications is interesting on its own right both in string theory, in order to understand more generally the degrees of freedom of these theories, and also in mathematics. For example, the connectedness between the solutions is related to problems in mathematics, for instance
Reid s fantasy, that complex manifolds with trivial canonical bundle are all connected through geometric transitions. |
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