Virtual Seminar Series

The virtual seminar series consists of lectures taken from the stores of streaming video lectures recorded at MSRI, the Clay Mathematics Institute, Princeton University WebMedia, Duke, UNC, Melbourne University, Pacific Institute and DAMTP. Audio lectures are taken from the Fields Institute, UCSB and ITP. Further audio and video lectures in broader scientific areas can be found at CERN and other links are at Leung. The lecture will be presented as a video or audio along with slides of the notes. Below are the titles of the lectures and the date each was recorded.

Programme

Tuesday April 15th, 2008 12pm Room 213 Andrei Okounkov "Characters of symmetric groups III" MSRI January 24, 2008
Friday April 11th, 2008 3:15pm Room 213 Andrei Okounkov "Characters of symmetric groups II" MSRI January 23, 2008
Thursday April 10th, 2008 9am Russell Love Theatre Andrei Okounkov "Characters of symmetric groups I" MSRI January 22, 2008
Tuesday May 24th, 2005 3.15pm Old Geology Theatre 2 Yon Seo Kim "Computing Hodge integrals with one lambda class" Fields Institute January 10, 2005
Tuesday May 17th, 2005 3.15pm Old Geology Theatre 2 String Theory: a Multihistory SMIL Produced and directed by Patricia Schwarz.
Tuesday May 10th, 2005 3.15pm Old Geology Theatre 2 Robbert Dijkgraaf "Matrix models, topological strings and supersymmetric gauge theories" Strings 2002, Cambridge, July 20
Tuesday May 3rd, 2005 3.15pm Old Geology Theatre 2 Robbert Dijkgraaf "The Mathematics of String Theory" Fields Institute January 17, 2005
Monday October 27th 1pm Theatre A Rahul Pandharipande "Moduli Spaces of Curves and Combinatorial Models" MSRI January 14th, 2002
Thursday April 11th 1pm Michael Thaddeus "Higgs bundle spaces as mirror partners." MSRI March 30th, 2002
Wednesday March 13th 1pm Mike Anderson "Einstein Metrics with Prescribed Conformal Infinity on 4-manifolds." MSRI May 8th, 2001
Wednesday March 6th 1pm Edward Witten "M-Theory Dynamics On A Manifold of G2 Holonomy" ITP June 6th, 2001
Thursday February 28th 1pm William Fulton "What is a Stack?" MSRI January 10th, 2002
Thursday February 21st 1pm Edward Witten "String Theory" Tata Institute January 10th, 2001
Thursday November 29th 1pm Robert Bryant "The X-ray Transform in Finsler Geometry" MSRI August 20th, 2001
Thursday November 22nd 1pm Ezra Getzler "Higher genus Frobenius manifolds" KIAS August 16th, 2000 Thursday November 22nd--back-up lecture Dr. Mark R. Pinto "The Ever Amazing Transistor -- How Much Smaller, Faster and Cheaper Can We Go? " Bell Labs February 7th, 1998 slides
Thursday November 15th 1pm Ezra Getzler "Higher genus Frobenius manifolds" KIAS August 16th, 2000
Thursday November 15th--back-up lecture David Torney "Biologically motivated design problems" MSRI November 9th, 2000
Thursday November 8th 1pm Birant Ramazan "Groupoids and C*-algebraic Quantization " MSRI April 24th, 2001
Frederic Cadet "Deformation and quantization for toric manifolds" MSRI April 26th, 2001
Thursday November 1st 1pm Hyam Rubinstein "The Steiner problem in 3-dimensions and applications" MSRI July 23rd, 2001
Thursday August 2nd 1pm Jurg Nievergelt "Half-a-century of computer chess: The longest running experiment in knowledge engineering" MSRI July 24th, 2000
Thursday July 26th 1pm Robert Osserman "A historical survey of some aspects of minimal surfaces." MSRI July 2nd, 2001
Thursday July 5th 1pm Edouard Brezin "Scaling limit of random matrices and KdV flow." MSRI February 22nd, 1999
Thursday June 28th 1pm Helmut Hofer. "Three-Dimensional Dynamical Systems and the Construction of Global Systems of Surfaces of Section." Duke May 2nd, 1998
Thursday June 21st 1pm Alain Connes "Noncommutative Geometry and Quantum Field Theory." MSRI April 25th, 2001
Thursday June 14th 1pm Robert Bryant "On the geometry of differential equations." MSRI September 14th, 2000
Thursday June 7th 1pm C. Robin Graham "Conformal geometry, Einstein metrics and scattering." MSRI May 8th, 2001
Thursday May 31st 1pm Peter Ozsvath "Holomorphic disks and three-manifold invariants" KIAS June 8th, 2000
Thursday May 31st--back-up lecture Stanislav Smirnov "Conformal invariance of critical percolation" MSRI May 1st, 2001
Thursday May 24th 1pm Ruth Lawrence "Almost modularity of quantum 3-manifold invariants" MSRI December 6th, 2000
Thursday May 17th 1pm Charles Fefferman "Singular scenarios for 2-D and 3-D incompressible fluids" MSRI March 12th, 2001
Thursday May 10th 1pm Michael Anshel "The Arithmetica Key Exchange" MSRI October 18th, 2000
Thursday December 14th 3:30pm Rodney Baxter "Chiral Potts model" MSRI February 23rd, 1999
Thursday November 30th 3:30pm Boris Dubrovin "Frobenius Manifolds, Isomonodromy Deformations, and Integrable Hierarchies II" MSRI January 23rd, 1999
Thursday November 23rd 3:30pm Boris Dubrovin "Frobenius Manifolds, Isomonodromy Deformations, and Integrable Hierarchies" MSRI January 21st, 1999
Thursday November 16th 3:30pm Mike Eastwood "Div, grad, curl and all that" Melbourne University June 6th, 2000
Thursday November 9th 3:30pm Jean-Luc Brylinski "Holomorphic gerbes and field theory." Duke Sept 21st, 1999
Thursday November 2nd 3:30pm Simon Donaldson "Symplectic and Lagrangian surfaces in four-space." MSRI June 26th, 1998
Thursday October 26th 3:30pm Kefeng Liu "Mirror principle for balloon manifolds." UCSB July 21, 1999
Thursday October 19th 3:30pm Jun Li "Comparison of algebraic and symplectic Gromov-Witten invariants." MSRI February 7, 1998
Thursday October 12th 3:30pm Sir Michael Atiyah "Millenimum Event: A celebration of the universality of mathematical thought." Paris May 24, 2000
Thursday October 5th 3:30pm Richard Karp "Mathematical Challenges from Genomics and Molecular Biology" MSRI September 16, 2000
Thursday September 28th 3:30pm Phil Hanlon "The combinatorial Laplacian" Duke September 3, 1999
Thursday September 21st 3:30pm Shing-Shen Chern "Projective geometry" MSRI October 2, 1998
Thursday September 14th 3:30pm Peter Sarnak "Random matrix models" MSRI Feb 1, 1999
Thursday September 7th 3:30pm Michael Freedman "A topological modular functor which is universal for quantum computation" MSRI March 2, 2000
Thursday August 31st 3:30pm Vaughan Jones "Noncommutative Geometry" 1:07:32 MSRI June 22, 1998
Wednesday May 10th 3:30-4:45pm Cliff Taubes "The geometry of the Seiberg-Witten invariants" 1:16:26 MSRI June 26, 1998
Wednesday May 3rd 3:30-4:45pm Peter Sarnak "Random matrix models in number theory" 58:25 MSRI October 8, 1998
Wednesday April 26th 3:30-4:45pm Peter Clarkson "On the relationship between the discrete and continuous Painleve equations" 1:01:32 MSRI February 26, 1999
Wednesday April 19th 3:30-4:45pm Vaughan Jones "Noncommutative Geometry" 1:07:32 MSRI June 22, 1998
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