Last week, Sara Pasquetti visited SISSA: Scuola internazionale Superiure di Studi Avanzati in Trieste, Italy. On Thursday 8th January she gave a talk in the Geometry and Mathematical Physics Seminar on “Holomorphic blocks and compact manifolds“. In recent years a plethora of new exact results for supersymmetric gauge theories formulated on compact manifolds have been obtained […]
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Anne Skeldon gave a talk at a STEM event at Bishops Wordsworth School in Salisbury on Wednesday 7th January. She spoke to students from years 10 and 12 (lower sixth) and 6th form students from four schools (Bishops Wordsworth, South Wilts, Godolphin, and Salisbury 6th Form). The title of her talk was “To sleep perchance […]
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Tom Bridges has been elected chair of the SIAM activity group on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (NWCS), with effect from 1st January 2015 for a two-year term of office. This activity group organizes the biennial SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves & Coherent Structures, awards the Martin Kruskal Prize, maintains a website and email list, […]
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The paper “D1 and D5-brane giant gravitons on AdS 3 × S + 3 × S − 3 × S 1″ by Andrea Prinsloo has been published on 12 December in the Journal of High Energy Physics. In the paper she constructs various examples of 1/2-BPS giant gravitons embedded into the type IIB supergravity background AdS 3 × S + 3 […]
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Sara Pasquetti visited the Department of Mathematics at ETH in Zurich Switzerland this week and gave a talk in the Mathematical Physics Seminar on “Holomorphic blocks and q-deformed correlators“. A link to the announcement is here. In the talk she discussed how supersymmetric partition functions on various compact manifolds in two, three, four and five […]
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Daniel Forger, a Professor of Mathematics, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan, is visiting the department this week, hosted by Anne Skeldon. His research is devoted to understanding biological clocks. His research uses techniques from many fields, including computer simulation, detailed mathematical modeling and mathematical analysis, to understand biological timekeeping. His webpage […]
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