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Math Science Literature Lecture Series

May 4, 2020      3:00 pm
Speaker: Simon Donaldson

Title: The ADHM construction of Yang-Mills instantons Abstract: In 1978 (Physics Letters 65A) Atiyah, Hitchin, Drinfeld and Manin (ADHM) described a construction of the general solution of the Yang-Mills instanton equations...
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On integral Stokes matrices

May 4, 2020      10:30 am
Speaker: John Alexander Cruz Morales

We will revisit the computations of Stokes matrices for tt*-structures done by Cecotti and Vafa in the 90's in the context of Frobenius manifolds and the so-called monodromy identity.  We...
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Math Science Literature Lecture Series

May 4, 2020      1:00 pm
Speaker: Joe Harris

Title: Rationality questions in algebraic geometry Abstract: Over the course of the history of algebraic geometry, rationality questions — motivated by both geometric and arithmetic problems — have often driven the subject...
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Graphical proofs for fault-tolerant computation

April 28, 2020      10:00 am
Speaker: Daniel Gottesman

Experimentalists are getting better and better at building qubits, but no matter how hard they try, their qubits will never be perfect. In order to build a large quantum computer, we...
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