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Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna
| Algebraic operations from topological field theory |
| Speaker: | Gregor Schaumann (MPI Bonn) |
| Abstract: | Topological field theories provide strong connections between algebra and topology. The aim of this talk is to summarize some recent developments along theses lines.
In the case of 3-dimensional TFTs, diagrammatic representations allow one to get intuition for higher categorical traces, symmetrized products and center constructions.
This is joint work with Christoph Schweigert und Jürgen Fuchs. |
| Date: | Tue, 17.03.2015 |
| Time: | 11:00 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | ESI |
| Contact: | Nils Carqueville |
| The Standard Model Effective Theory and Dimension 6 Operators |
| Speaker: | Prof. Aneesh V. Manohar (University of California, San Diego) |
| Abstract: | 3. Vorlesung im Rahmen der Schrödinger-Gastprofessur:
Effective theory methods are applied to the standard model to study
the effects of new physics in a model independent way. The talk
outlines some recent results on the renormalization of dimension
6 operators, and the implications for processes such as Higgs decay
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| Date: | Tue, 17.03.2015 |
| Time: | 16:15 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | Fakultät für Physik, Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock |
| Contact: | A. Hoang, H. Neufeld |
| Solutions to the Einstein constraint equations with constant mean curvature |
| Speaker: | Romain Gicquaud (Université de Tours, France) |
| Abstract: | im Rahmen des Seminars in Geometric Analysis and Physics
(GAP Seminar) |
| Date: | Thu, 19.03.2015 |
| Time: | 11:00 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | Arbeitsgruppe Gravitation, Währinger Strasse 17, Seminarraum Kernphysik, 5. Stock, Zi. 504-506, 1090 Wien |
| Contact: | M. Bauer (Fak. Math, U.V.), V. Branding (Fak. Math, T.U.), D. Fajman (Fak. Phys, U.V.), J. Joudioux (Fak. Phys, U.V.) |
| Solutions of the conformal constraint equations with non-constant mean curvature |
| Speaker: | Romain Gicquaud (Tours) |
| Abstract: | im Rahmen des Literaturseminars für Gravitation: Constructing broad classes of (physically relevant) initial data for the Cauchy problem is
an important issue in general relativity. From the Gauss and Codazzi
equations, the 0th order initial data (the metric induced on a Cauchy
surface) and the first order initial data (the second fundamental form
of the Cauchy surface) cannot be chosen arbitrarily: they have to
satisfy some constraint equations. One of the main methods for studying
these equations is the conformal method which was highly successful for
constructing and classifying constant mean curvature(CMC) initial data. However, constructing non CMC initial data
remains a widely open subject. In this talk I will describe recent
results on the construction of solutions to the constraint equations
with non constant mean curvature by the conformal method. |
| Date: | Thu, 19.03.2015 |
| Time: | 14:00 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | Arbeitsgruppe Gravitation, Währinger Strasse 17, Seminarraum A, 2. Stock, 1090 Wien |
| Contact: | P.T. Chrusciel |
| Quantization of conical spaces in 3D gravity |
| Speaker: | Joris Raeymaekers (Prague, Inst. Phys.) |
| Abstract: | see http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0278 |
| Date: | Thu, 19.03.2015 |
| Time: | 14:00 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | SEM 136, TU Wien, Freihaus, 10th floor (Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10, A-1040 Vienna) |
| Contact: | Daniel Grumiller |
| Strongly coupled phases of N = 1 S-duality |
| Speaker: | Inaki Garcia-Etxebarria (MPI Munich) |
| Abstract: | We have recently argued for the existence of a natural
generalization of 4d N=4 SL(2,Z) duality, which applies to a vast class
of N=1 theories arising from branes at singularities. I will review the
motivation and evidence for the proposal, and then discuss some recent
developments which indicate that intrinsically strongly coupled field
theories play a fundamental role in the duality behavior of these N=1
theories. |
| Date: | Thu, 19.03.2015 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Duration: | 60 min |
| Location: | SEM 136, TU Wien, Freihaus, 10th floor (Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10, A-1040 Vienna) |
| Contact: | Johanna Knapp and Timm Wrase |
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