Mon, 24 Jan 2011

12:00 - 13:00
L3

Scattering Amplitudes and Holomorphic Linking in Twistor Space

Mathew Bullimore
(Oxford)
Abstract
Recently, there has been exciting progress in scattering amplitudes in supersymmetric gauge theories, one aspect of which is the remarkable duality between amplitudes and Wilson loops. I will explain how the complete planar S-matrix of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory is encoded in the complex analogue of a Wilson loop in holomorphic Chern-Simons theory on twistor space. The dynamics of the theory are encoded in loop equations, which describe deformations of the Wilson Loop and provide new insight into the nature of the amplitude-Wilson loop duality. The loop equations themselves yield powerful recursive methods for scattering amplitudes which are revealed as holomorphic skein relations by interpreting the Wilson loop as the complex analogue of a knot invariant. The talk will be based on the preprint arXiv:1101.1329.
Mon, 17 Jan 2011

12:00 - 13:30
L3

Generalised Geometry and M-theory

David Berman
(Queen Mary University of London)
Abstract
Abstract: We reformulate M-theory in terms of a generalised metric that combines the usual metric and the three form potential. The U-duality group is then a manifest symmetry.
Mon, 28 Feb 2011

15:45 - 16:45
L3

Stochastic Algebraic Topology

Michael Farber
(University of Durham)
Abstract

Topological spaces and manifolds are commonly used to model configuration
spaces of systems of various nature. However, many practical tasks, such as
those dealing with the modelling, control and design of large systems, lead
to topological problems having mixed topological-probabilistic character
when spaces and manifolds depend on many random parameters.
In my talk I will describe several models of stochastic algebraic topology.
I will also mention some open problems and results known so far.

Mon, 07 Mar 2011
14:15
L3

Moduli of irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds

Klaus Hulek
(Hanover)
Abstract

We shall discuss the moduli problem for irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds. If these manifolds are equipped with a polarization (an ample line bundle), then they are parametrized by (coarse) moduli spaces. We shall relate these moduli spaces to arithmetic quotients of type IV domains and discuss when they are rational or not. This is joint work with V.Gritsenko and G.K.Sankaran.

Mon, 21 Feb 2011
14:15
L3

Schematic Harder Narasimhan stratification

Nitin Nitsure
(Tata Institute)
Abstract

The Harder Narasimhan type (in the sense of Gieseker semistability)

of a pure-dimensional coherent sheaf on a projective scheme is known to vary

semi-continuously in a flat family, which gives the well-known Harder Narasimhan

stratification of the parameter scheme of the family, by locally closed subsets.

We show that each stratum can be endowed with a natural structure of a locally

closed subscheme of the parameter scheme, which enjoys an appropriate universal property.

As an application, we deduce that pure-dimensional coherent sheaves of any given

Harder Narasimhan type form an Artin algebraic stack.

As another application - jointly with L. Brambila-Paz and O. Mata - we describe

moduli schemes for certain rank 2 unstable vector bundles on a smooth projective

curve, fixing some numerical data.

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