Seminars

Unless noted otherwise seminars are held at the following time and place:

Time:	Wednesdays, 4:30 pm
Place:	Room 4312, James Clerk Maxwell Building
	King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh

For a printable list of upcoming seminars click on one of the following links: PostScript or PDF.

Summer Term 2001

27 June: Harry Braden (Edinburgh); Baker-Akhiezer functions and line bundles
20 June: Martin Speight (Leeds); CP¹ lump dynamics and an interesting geometry on the space of rational maps
13 June: Harry Braden (Edinburgh); Integrability, Baker-Akhiezer functions and spinning tops
30 May: Patrick Dorey (Durham); Spectral equivalences from Bethe Ansatz equations
29 May: David Calderbank (Edinburgh); Solving integrable equations via algebraic geometry (IV); Note nonstandard date: Tuesday 4pm
16 May: David Calderbank (Edinburgh); Solving integrable equations via algebraic geometry (III)
9 May: David Calderbank (Edinburgh); Solving integrable equations via algebraic geometry (II)
2 May: David Calderbank (Edinburgh); Solving integrable equations via algebraic geometry
25 April: Kirill Vaninsky (MPI Bonn); Very singular Riemann surfaces and physically interesting solutions of integrable equations
18 April: Harry Braden (Edinburgh); Integrability: a modern overview

Spring Term 2001

21 March: Simon Ross (Durham); Supersymmetric conical defects in three-dimensional anti-de-Sitter space
15 March: Joint EMPG/Geometry Seminar; Dan Waldram (QMW); D-branes, tachyons and stable triples; Note nonstandard day and time: Thursday, 4:00pm
14 March: Paul Turner (Heriot-Watt); Gerbes and homotopy quantum field theories (and II)
7 March: Simon Willerton (Heriot-Watt); Gerbes and homotopy quantum field theories (I)
28 February: Bernd Schroers (Heriot-Watt); D-branes and Nahm's equations (and II)
21 February: Michael Singer (Edinburgh); The Nahm Transform (and II); Bernd Schroers (Heriot-Watt); D-branes and Nahm's equations (I)
15 February: Joint EMPG/Geometry Seminar; George Papadopoulos (King's College, London); Hermitian manifolds and strings; Note nonstandard day and time: Thursday, 4:00pm
14 February: Michael Singer (Edinburgh); The Nahm Transform (I)
7 February: Richard Szabo (Heriot-Watt); Introduction to D-branes, and V
31 January: Richard Szabo (Heriot-Watt); Introduction to D-branes, IV
24 January: José Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh); D-branes and WZW models
17 January: Richard Szabo (Heriot-Watt); Introduction to D-branes, III

Autumn Term 2000

6 December: Joint EMPG/Particle Theory Seminar; Gernot Akemann (MPI, Heidelberg); QCD Dirac Spectra: Results from Group Integrals and Matrix Models
22 November: Richard Szabo (Heriot-Watt); Introduction to D-branes, II
21 November: Joint EMPG/Geometry Seminar; Nikita Nekrasov (Princeton and IHÉS); Solitons in noncommutative gauge theory; Note nonstandard day and time: Tuesday, 4:00pm
17 November: Joint EMPG/Topology Seminar; Nikita Nekrasov (Princeton and IHÉS); Instantons and the eleventh dimension; Note nonstandard day and time: Friday, 2:30pm
15 November: Richard Szabo (Heriot-Watt); Introduction to D-branes, I
8 November: José Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh); Introduction to perturbative string theory, and IV
1 November: Joint EMPG/Applied Seminar; Mitia Lebedev (ITEP and IHÉS); Spectral problem for quantum periodic Toda chain by QIST method
1 November: Joint EMPG/Applied Seminar; Mitia Lebedev (ITEP and IHÉS); Spectral problem for quantum open Toda chain by QISM; Note nonstandard time: 3:00pm
31 October: Joint EMPG/Applied Seminar; Mitia Lebedev (ITEP and IHÉS); Classical periodic Toda chain in SoV approach; Note nonstandard place and day: Tuesday, in JCMB 5325
25 October: José Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh); Introduction to perturbative string theory, III
18 October: José Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh); Introduction to perturbative string theory, II
11 October: José Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh); Introduction to perturbative string theory, I

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