EVENT DETAILS AND ABSTRACT


Colloquium

Title: Gauge Theory and Exceptional Holonomy
Speaker: Prof. Simon Donaldson
Speaker Info: Imperial College, London
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Special Note:
Abstract:

Part 1: a general account of "enumerative invariants" obtained by counting solutions of nonlinear elliptic and examples (Gromov-Witten, Yang-Mills instantons, Seiberg-Witten).

Part 2: an outline of the application of these ideas to submanifolds and connections over manifolds of exceptional holonomy (which is still largely conjectural).

Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Where: Lunt 105
Contact Person: Ezra Getzler
Contact email: getzler@northwestern.edu
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