Seminars

The location of the seminars alternates termwise between Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University campuses.
During the spring term, seminars will be held at the following time and place, unless otherwise noted:

Time:	Wednesdays, 4:30 pm
Place:	Room M320, Scott-Russell building (HW-mathematics)
	Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus, Edinburgh

For any questions regarding the seminars please contact Joost Slingerland

Note: as of this year, there is also series of informal EMPG pre-seminars for non-experts

Summer Term 2004

16 June: John Wheater (Oxford); Lost on a Comb?
9 June: No seminar; This week we overlap with the NBMPS meeting in York. Hence no seminar.
2 June: Emily Hackett-Jones (Durham); Topological charges for branes in M-theory
26 May: Simon Malham (Heriot-Watt); The Magnus Expansion
19 May: No seminar
12 May: Joost Slingerland (Heriot-Watt); Topological quantum computing
5 May: Stefan Groot Nibbelink (Minneapolis); Stringy profiles of gauge field tadpoles near orbifold singularities
28 April, 3:00 pm: Sanjaye Ramgoolam (Queen Mary); Towards gauge theory for commutative and non-associative algebras; Note unusual time!
21 April: Christophe Patricot (Cambridge); Causal structures, positive energy and Adjoint invariant cones

Spring Term 2004

10 March: Kirill Krasnov (AEI Golm/Potsdam); Twistors, CFT and holography
3 March: Hannu Rajaniemi (Edinburgh); Twistor spinors in supergravity and superconformal symmetry algebras
25 February: No seminar; As a result of strike action, there will be no seminar this week.
18 February: Niall McKay (York); Yangian symmetry and boundary integrability in sigma models
11 February: Michela Petrini (CPHT, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau and Tours University); String compactification and G-structures
4 February: Bernd Schroers (Heriot-Watt); Twist flows in the moduli space of flat connections and representations of the mapping class group
28 January: José Figueroa O'Farrill (Edinburgh); Supersymmetric quotients of Freund-Rubin backgrounds
21 January, room 213A, Scott-Russell building: Jérôme Dorignac (Heriot-Watt); Quantum discrete breathers; Note unusual location!
14 January: Giuseppe Policastro (Cambridge); The covariant superstring as a WZW model
7 January: Ian Strachan (Glasgow); Genus one corrections to Topological Quantum Field Theory

Autumn Term 2003

10 December: Steffen Krusch (Heriot-Watt); Lumps on the sphere
3 December: Douglas Smith (Durham); Supergravity M5-branes wrapped on Riemann surfaces and their QFT duals
Friday 28 November, JCMB 6206: Nick Dorey (Swansea); S-duality, Deconstruction and Confinement; Note unusual day!
26 November: Joao Faria Martins (Nottingham); Some Remarks on Knot Invariants arising from non compact quantum groups and their unitary representations.
19 November: Christian Korff (Edinburgh); Quantum Integrable Systems. Why? To what end? By which means?
Tuesday 11 November, JCMB 5215: Conor Houghton (Dublin); Pulsation and Precession of the Resonant Swinging Spring; Note unusual day and location!
5 November: Chris Hull (Imperial); Generalised Holonomy and Supersymmetric Geometry
29 October: Shahn Majid (Queen Mary); Fock space for nonrelativistic anyon fields and the anyonic exclusion principle; The same speaker will also speak in the algebra seminar on 28 October
22 October: Simon Ross (Durham); Causality and plane waves
15 October: Harry Braden (Edinburgh); Seiberg-Witten Theory: An Overview
8 October: Simon Philip (Edinburgh); Penrose limits and homogeneous spaces; If you're not an expert on this, then don't miss the first ever pre-EMPG-seminar!

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