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CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: The ADHM construction of Yang-Mills instantons
VirtualSimon Donaldson (Stony Brook) 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 […]
CMSA Math-Science Literature Lecture: Why do some universities have separate departments of statistics?
VirtualDonald Rubin (Harvard) Title: Why do some universities have separate departments of statistics? And are they all anachronisms, destined to follow the path of other dinosaurs? Video | Slides
Stability of spacetimes with supersymmetric compactifications
VirtualSpeaker: Lars Andersson (Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) Title: Stability of spacetimes with supersymmetric compactifications Abstract: Spacetimes with compact directions, which have special holonomy such as Calabi-Yau spaces, play an important role in supergravity and […]