Visit: Prof. Dario Benedetti (Ecole Polytechnique)

Minicurse: Morse Theory

Speaker: Prof. Andrew Lobb

Morse theory is a branch of mathematics with which we can infer topological information of manifolds. In this series of lectures we will explore its formulation and how it encodes topology.

Colloquium: "Classification of 4-manifolds" by Dr. Guilherme Sadovski

Speaker: Dr. Sadovski is a member of this unit (visit his page).

Coloquium: "Functional methods in QFT and renormalization, part III" by Dr. Riccardo Martini

Speaker: Dr. Martini is a member of this unit (check his page)

In this seminar we introduce the concept of renormalization and effective field theories and give a qualitative description of how physics changes at different scales.

Colloquium: "Functional methods in QFT and renormalization, part II" by Dr. Riccardo Martini

Speaker: Dr. Martini is a member of this unit (check his page)

After introducing the effective action we will discuss its perturbative expansion and show that it is the generating functional of 1PI correlators.

Colloquium: "Classification of 3-manifolds" by Dr. Guilherme Sadovski

Speaker: Dr. Sadovski is a member of this unit (visit his page)

Colloquium: "Functional methods in QFT and renormalization, part I" by Dr. Riccardo Martini

Speaker: Dr. Martini is a member of this unit (check his page).

Seminar: "Knots, the Jones Polynomial, and Khovanov homology" by Prof. Andrew Lobb

Speaker: Dr. Lobb is a professor at Durham University and is currently visiting OIST (visit his page).

Seminar: "Lorentzian Structures on Branching Spacetimes" by Mr. David O'Connell

Speaker: Mr. O'Connell is currently a Ph.D. student at OIST.

Colloquium: "Classification of 2-manifolds" by Dr. Guilherme Sadovski

Speaker: Dr. Sadovski is a member of this unit (visit his page).