Jan 19: José Simental (UNAM) "Cluster structure on braid varieties" Abstract: The braid varieties of the title are smooth affine algebraic varieties that naturally generalize important Lie-theoretic ...
I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University, in the group of Geometry & Analysis and Mathematical Physics. My research interests are General Relativity, Partial Differential ...
Professor A.J. de Jong, Columbia university, Department of Mathematics. One might say: an explanation serves to remove or to avert a misunderstanding---one, that is, that would occur but for the ...
E.B.Vinberg: Representation of the symmetric groups, a very short summary for SpringerLink. Notice interesting comments that follow the summary. A.Vershik, A.Okounkov, A New Approach to the ...
Title: Research Professor Barnard College-Columbia University, Professor Emeritus I also am an Affiliated Professor at the University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. Educational Background: Ph.D., Courant ...
Here is the revised 1995 text of the book "J-holomorphic curves and Quantum Homology" (AMS Lecture Notes, 1994) that I wrote with Salamon. This book is the (short!) first version of "J-holomorphic ...
Why should I major in this subject? Many students are attracted to the discipline of mathematics for the same reason as the faculty, because of its great intrinsic beauty, its abstract and logical ...
Quanta magazine has just put out an impressive package of material under the title The Unraveling of Space-Time. Much of it is promoting the “Spacetime is doomed” point of view that influential ...