Imperial College has its own detailed information on general directions and on getting to the theoretical physics group. The College is located on Prince Consort Road, south of Hyde Park (map). The most convenient access is via tube (South Kensington, Gloucester Road) or buses. The Theoretical Physics group resides on the 5th floor of the Huxley Building. The group also possesses its own description.
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String Theory & Geometry Seminar Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)
at: 14:00 room Lecture Theatre 2, Level 1, Blackett abstract: |
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String Theory & Geometry Seminar Marco Gualtieri (Fields Institute)
at: 13:30 room 140 Huxley abstract: | Generalized complex geometry is a unification of complex and symplectic geometry, and provides a geometrical context for understanding parts of mirror symmetry. In these lectures I will provide an introduction to generalized complex, Kahler, and related geometries, and describe some of their appearances in physics. |
String Theory & Geometry Seminar Marco Gualtieri (Fields Institute)
at: 13:30 room 539 Huxley abstract: | Generalized complex geometry is a unification of complex and symplectic geometry, and provides a geometrical context for understanding parts of mirror symmetry. In these lectures I will provide an introduction to generalized complex, Kahler, and related geometries, and describe some of their appearances in physics. |
String Theory & Geometry Seminar Marco Gualtieri (Fields Institute)
at: 13:00 room 10.04 Blackett abstract: | Generalized complex geometry is a unification of complex and symplectic geometry, and provides a geometrical context for understanding parts of mirror symmetry. In these lectures I will provide an introduction to generalized complex, Kahler, and related geometries, and describe some of their appearances in physics. |
Topology & Geometry Seminar Simon Donaldson (IC)
at: 13:30 room H140 abstract: |
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Regular Seminar Nick Evans (Southhampton)
at: 16:00 room H503 abstract: | TBA |
Regular Seminar Michele Dougherty (Imperial College)
at: 14:00 room H503 abstract: |
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String Theory & Geometry Seminar Richard Thomas (Imperial College)
at: 13:00 room Blackett 10.04 abstract: |
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Regular Seminar Jeong-Hyuck Park (IHES-Paris)
at: 16:00 room H503 abstract: | Four dimensional N=4 super Yang-Mills theory contains a bigger superalgebra than AdS or superconformal algebra, su(2,2/4). It corresponds to a noncentral extension of the latter. The talk is for both physicsts and mathematicans interested in a novel way of obtaining noncentral extensions of Lie algebras. |
Regular Seminar Pratul Bandyopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta)
at: 14:00 room H503 abstract: |
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String Theory & Geometry Seminar Simon Donaldson (IC)
at: 13:00 room 503 Huxley abstract: |
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Regular Seminar Toby Wiseman (Harvard)
at: 16:00 room H503 abstract: | Compact Calabi-Yau manifolds are a key ingredient for dimensional reduction in string theory. For this, one requires the Ricci-flat metric on these manifolds. Whilst Yau proved this metric exists, no explicit smooth examples are known, essentially as it is very difficult (impossible?) to find them analytically as they have no continuous isometries. Taking a new approach, I will discuss numerical methods to solve the Einstein equation on these manifolds. I will pedagogically describe the construction, and give results, for a particular one parameter family of metrics on K3 (the unique 4-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold). I will discuss possible applications of these methods, and generalizations to geometries with matter such as those relevant for flux compactifications. There will be some nice pictures. |
Regular Seminar Alan Martin (University of Durham)
at: 14:00 room H503 abstract: |
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Regular Seminar Keith Hannabuss (Oxford)
at: 16:00 room H503 abstract: | This seminar reviews some of the global algebraic and geometric structure present in T-duality. Bouwknegt, Evslin and Mathai have given a geometric procedure for handling T-duality for certain non-trivial principal torus bundles. Subsequent work by Mathai and Rosenberg showed that sometimes when there is no geometric T-dual there may be a non-commutative torus bundle playing the same role. This exploited a very similar duality for C-star-algebras known for a couple of decades. This talk will review those developments and their recent extension in collaboration with Bouwknegt and Mathai to more general situations in which the algebraic structure becomes non-associative. |
String Theory & Geometry Seminar Chris Hull (IC)
at: 13:00 room H408 abstract: | String Theory and Geometry Seminar |
Regular Seminar Niclas Wyllard (CERN)
at: 16:00 room H503 abstract: | After a general overview, the construction of D-brane boundary states in the pure spinor superstring will be discussed. |
String Theory & Geometry Seminar Chris Hull (Imperial College)
at: 13:00 room 408 Huxley building abstract: |
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String Theory & Geometry Seminar Chris Hull (Imperial College)
at: 13:00 room CLORE LECTURE THEATRE, Huxley building abstract: |
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Triangular Seminar Katrin Wendland (Warwick University)
at: 16:30 room Lecture Theatre 3, Blackett Laboratory abstract: |
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