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 any questions regarding the seminars please contact Joost Slingerland

Summer Term 2003

23 April
Richard Szabo (Heriot-Watt)
Quantum Field Theory on Noncommutative Phase Spaces
Note unusual location!
time: 16:30h
location: M320, Heriot-Watt Maths (Scott-Russell building)
30 April
Raquel García (Imperial)
Causal sets: a background for quantum gravity
1 May
Katrin Wendland (Warwick)
Geometric interpretation of conformal field theories: A (degenerate) example
Joint seminar with the Edinburgh geometry seminar
time: 16:00h
location: Room 4312, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh
7 May
Fay Dowker (Queen Mary)
A spontaneous collapse on a lattice
Joint seminar with the Heriot-Watt Maths Colloquium
time: 16:30h
location: M320, Heriot-Watt Maths (Scott-Russell building)
14 May
Victor Enolskii (Kiev, visiting Heriot-Watt)
Riemann-Hilbert Problem and Algebraic Curves
21 May
Grigori Rozenblioum (Göteborg)
Spectral properties of boundary problems for singularly perturbed Dirac operator
Joint seminar with the Heriot-Watt Maths Colloquium
time: 16:30h
location: M320, Heriot-Watt Maths (Scott-Russell building)
4 June
Double Seminar
Simon Willerton (Sheffield)
A look at the Dijkgraaf-Witten TQFT
time: 15:00h
Alexandre Orlov (P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow)
Tau functions and matrix integrals
time: 16:30h
10 June
John McKay (Concordia)
Quantum mechanics, dispersionless KP, Witten's manifold, and the Monster
Joint seminar with the Algebra seminar
time: 16:00h
location: room 4312, JCMB, king's buildings
11 June
Richard Blythe (Manchester)
Statistical physics of nonequilibrium phenomena
Joint seminar with the Heriot-Watt Maths Colloquium
time: 16:30h
location: M320, Heriot-Watt Maths (Scott-Russell building)
18 June
José Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh)
Supergravity backgrounds: recent results
time: 15:00h
AGM of the EMPG
time: 16:30h


Spring Term 2003

8 January
José Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh)
Six-dimensional supergravity, Lie groups with bi-invariant metrics and group contractions
Note unusual time!
time: 17:00h
location: Room 4312, James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh
15 January
Misha Feigin (Financial Academy, Government of Russian Federation, visiting Loughborough)
Rings of quantum integrals for generalized Calogero-Moser problems
22 January
Steffen Krusch (Heriot-Watt)
Fermions coupled to Skyrmions on S3
29 January
Daniel Elton (Heriot-Watt)
Zero energy bound states of the Pauli operator on R3
5 February
Alex Kovner (Plymouth)
Confinement and deconfinement in 2+1 dimensions
12 February
Felipe Leitner (Edinburgh)
Twistor equations and geometric structures
19 February
Clifford Johnson (Durham)
The enhancon mechanism and Black Hole Thermodynamics
26 February
Christian Korff (Edinburgh)
Auxiliary matrices for the six-vertex model at roots of 1 and a geometric interpretation of its symmetries
5 March
Bernd Schroers (Heriot-Watt)
Poisson-Lie groups and their quantisation
Note unusual time and location!
time: 15:00h
location: M320, Heriot-Watt Maths (Scott-Russell building)
12 March
Davide Fioravanti (Durham)
Exact computation of conserved charges: method and applications


Autumn Term 2002

9 October
Christian Korff (Edinburgh)
Integrable Models of Statistical Mechanics at roots of Unity
16 October
S. Prem Kumar (Swansea)
Solving N=1 SUSY gauge theories via matrix models
23 October
Joost Slingerland (Heriot-Watt)
Hopf Symmetry Breaking and Confinement in 2+1 Dimensions
28 October
Colloquium
David I. Olive (Swansea)
Quantum field theory and the topology of space-time
JCMB 5215, University of Edinburgh, 3:30pm
30 October
Martin Evans (Edinburgh)
Phase Transitions in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics
6 November
Hitoshi Konno (Hiroshima, visiting Heriot-Watt)
The Drinfeld realisation of the Elliptic Quantum Group $B_{q,\lambda}(\widehat{sl}_N)$ and the related solvable lattice models
13 November
Karim Noui (LPM Montpellier, France)
Quantum gravity in three dimensional de Sitter space
20 November
Richard Szabo (Heriot-Watt)
Matrix Models, Rational Approximations and the Noncommutative Torus
Note unusual location!
 time: 16:30h
location: M320, Heriot-Watt Maths (Scott-Russell building)
27 November
Bill Spence (QMW)
New Topological Gravities
4 December
Iain Gordon (Glasgow)
Rational Cherednik Algebras and their applications

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