BU-Harvard-MIT Mathematical Physics Seminar 

Fall 2001

 

 
October 2
 Dirk Kreimer (BU)
From QFT to Number Theory; a tale of short distances
School of Management Building; Room 412
October 9
Nicolas Sourlas (ENS, Paris)
 Statistical Mechanics and Capacity Approaching Error Correcting Codes
School of Management Building; Room 412
October 16
  Don Zagier (MPI, Bonn)
A Three-Term Functional Equation and the Spectral Theory of H/SL(2,Z)
School of Management Building; Room 412
October 23
Frank Wilczek (MIT)
QCD at Asymptotic Densities
School of Management Building; Room 414
October  30
Sergei Gukov (CMI and Harvard)
New Manifolds of Special Holonomy and Their Relation to Classical and Quantum Physics
School of Management Building; Room 406
November 6
Richard Stanley (MIT)
Recent results on the irreducible characters of the symmetric group
School of Management Building; Room 412
November 13
Edward Farhi (MIT)
A physicist's approach to quantum computing
School of Management Building; Room 412
November 20
No Seminar
November 27
No Seminar
December 4
No Seminar
December 11
Victor Kac(MIT)
Representation theory of exceptional infinite-dimensional 
Lie superalgebras and the Standard Model
School of Management Building; Room 212