Superseminar: The Math-Physics Learning Seminar

Spring 2007
Tuesdays 3:40-4:40pm
PDL C-401

The Superseminar is a seminar to help math students learn physics, and vice-versa. For this quarter, the seminar will touch on several themes. One will be continuing discussions stemming from last quarter's Elliptic Fibrations course, another will be discussion of this quarter's course on Gauge Theory, and a third will be research interests of participants. Other topics will doubtless emerge as the quarter progresses, and your suggestions are welcome.

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Schedule of talks

Spring 2007

April 11	Andrey Novoseltsev and Jacob Lewis	Slicing Reflexive Polytopes and Toric Fibrations
April 17	CANCELLED
April 19	Paul Aspinwall	Topological B-Branes are Easy! 2:30 PM in PAT C-520
April 24	Matt Ballard	Homological Mirror Symmetry for P^1: Part I
May 1	Matt Ballard	Homological Mirror Symmetry for P^1: Part II
May 8	Matt Ballard	Homological Mirror Symmetry for P^1: Part III
May 15	Adrian Clingher	Hodge Theory Underlying the F-Theory/Heterotic Duality in 8D
May 22	Matt Ballard	Homological Mirror Symmetry for P^1: Part IV
May 29	Ursula Whichter	TBA

Winter 2007

January 11	Matt Ballard	Examples of Homological Mirror Symmetry I
January 16	Matt Ballard	Examples of Homological Mirror Symmetry II
January 26	Andrey Novoseltsev	PALP in SAGE
January 30	Amer Iqbal	Physics of Khovanov Invariants and the Refined Vertex I
February 6	Amer Iqbal	Physics of Khovanov Invariants II
February 15	Matt Ballard	A-Branes on P^1
February 27	Josh Kantor	Numerical Kahler-Einstein Metrics on the Third del Pezzo
March 8	Jacob Lewis	Topological Strings and Modular Forms

Fall 2006

October 3	Jacob Lewis	Toric Geometry Examples
October 10	Ursula Whichter	Reflexive Polytopes and Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces
October 17	Ursula Whichter	Divisors on Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties
October 24	Daghbouche	Path Integrals in Sigma models
October 31	Matt Ballard and Josh Kantor	Deformations of Complex Structure
November 7	Amer Iqbal	Hori-Vafa Mirror Symmetry Examples
November 14	Andy O'Bannon	B-Model Anomalies
November 21	Cancelled	Thanksgiving
November 28	Andrey Novoseltsev	The Number 12 and Reflexive Polygons
December 5	Cancelled	Richard Hamilton's Milliman Lecture
December 12	Can Kozcaz	Topological Vertex

Past Superseminars