Thu, 27 Jul 2023
17:00
Lecture Theatre 1

Envisioning Imagination - Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli and Conrad Shawcross with Fatos Ustek - SOLD OUT

Various
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Imagination is the creative force for artists. But what about mathematicians and scientists? What part does imagination play in their work? What do the artist and the scientist have in common? And how do each envision things that will never be seen?

In this panel discussion two scientists and one artist, all leaders in their field, will provide an answer. They have more in common than you would think.

Nobel-prize winning scientist Roger Penrose is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor in Oxford. Carlo Rovelli is a Professor in the Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy of Aix-Marseille Université and the author of several popular-science books including 'Seven Brief Lesson on Physics'. Conrad Shawcross is an artist specialising in mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific ideas. His exhibition, 'Cascading Principles' is currently showing in the Mathematical Institute.

The discussion will be chaired by curator and writer Fatos Ustek, curator of the 'Cascading Principles' exhibition.

There will be an opportunity to view the exhibition from 4pm on the day of the lecture.

Please email @email to register.

The Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures and the Conrad Shawcross Exhibition are generously supported by XTX Markets.

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Mon, 12 Jun 2023
14:15
L1

Holographic description of code CFTs

Anatoly Dymarsky
(Kentucky)
Abstract

Recently, a relation was introduced connecting codes of various types with the space of abelian (Narain) 2d CFTs. We extend this relation to provide holographic description of code CFTs in terms of abelian Chern-Simons theory in the bulk. For codes over the alphabet Z_p corresponding bulk theory is, schematically, U(1)_p times U(1)_{-p} where p stands for the level. Furthermore, CFT partition function averaged over all code theories for the codes of a given type is holographically given by the Chern-Simons partition function summed over all possible 3d geometries. This provides an explicit and controllable example of holographic correspondence where a finite ensemble of CFTs is dual to "topological/CS gravity" in the bulk. The parameter p controls the size of the ensemble and "how topological" the bulk theory is. Say, for p=1 any given Narain CFT is described holographically in terms of U(1)_1^n times U(1)_{-1}^n Chern-Simons, which does not distinguish between different 3d geometries (and hence can be evaluated on any of them). When p approaches infinity, the ensemble of code theories covers the whole Narain moduli space with the bulk theory becoming "U(1)-gravity" proposed by Maloney-Witten and Afkhami-Jeddi et al.

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Thu, 01 Jun 2023

15:00 - 16:00
L6

A Lagrangian Klein Bottle You Can't Squeeze

Matthew Buck
(University of Lancaster)
Abstract

Given a non-orientable Lagrangian surface L in a symplectic 4-manifold, how far
can the cohomology class of the symplectic form be deformed before there is no
longer a Lagrangian isotopic to L? I will properly introduce this and a
related question, both of which are less interesting for orientable
Lagrangians due to topological conditions. The majority of this talk will be
an exposition on Evans' 2020 work in which he solves this deformation
question for a particular Klein bottle. The proof employs the heavy machinery
of symplectic field theory and more classical pseudoholomorphic
curve theory to severely constrain the topology and intersection properties of
the limits of certain pseudoholomorphic curves under a process called
neck-stretching. The treatment of SFT-related material will be light and focus
mainly on how one can use the compactness theorem to prove interesting things.

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