Юрий Иванович Манин (1937-2023)
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Юрий Иванович Манин (1937-2023)
https://listeningtogolem.blogspot.com/2023/01/blog-post.html
This hybrid workshop is supported by the Fields Institute. All talks will be broadcast online. To gain access to the talks, please register free of charge here.
Workshop description: Topological recursion is a method for counting maps of a certain topology using only planar maps. The theory arose from work in 2D quantum gravity and the discovery that matrix integrals are related to maps on surfaces. These matrix integrals also appear in models of quantum gravity on noncommutative spaces and in quantum field theories on these spaces. The same matrix integrals arise in free probability and recent work has shown a surprising connection between higher order free independence and maps on surfaces of positive genus.
This workshop will bring together a group of researchers working in noncommutative geometry (NCG), free probability theory (FPT) and random matrix theory (RMT) to foster collaboration in an emerging area of research that is at the intersection of these three fields.
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This conference will be in hybrid format. All talks will be broadcast on zoom. To access the talks please register free of charge using the link provided above.
After a very successful first year, Global Noncommutative Geometry Seminar (Americas) starts again this Friday at 3 PM (Toronto time), 9 PM (Paris time) with a talk by Alain Connes. Title: On the Notion of Space.
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Added Sept 7: Talk can be watched here
For abstracts and details of other forthcoming talks in Global Noncommutative Geometry Seminar please check the seminar website: Global NCG Seminar
The year 2021 will mark the 40th anniversary of the discovery and development of Cyclic Cohomology Theory by Alain Connes. Its further flourishing fostered by many mathematicians including Dan Quillen, Jean Louis Loday, Boris Tsygan, Boris Feigin, Joachim Cuntz, Ib Madsen, Max Karoubi, and many others has brought a remarkable development of the subject in many distinct directions, in particular in global analysis, representation theory and index theory, algebraic K-theory and cyclotomic trace maps, arithmetic geometry and mathematical physics. The goal of this meeting will be to bring top experts from around the world to lecture on the state of the art in the field, to look towards the future and discuss the most pressing current open problems in the field.
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This workshop intends to be a first meeting point for specialists and young researchers active in noncommutative geometry, free probability, and topological recursion. In the two first areas, one often wants to compute expectation values of a large class of noncommutative observables in random ensembles of (several) matrices of size N, in the large N limit. The motivations come from the study of various models of 2d quantum gravity via random spectral triples, or from the problem of identifying interesting factors via approximations by matrix models. Topological recursion and its generalisations provide a priori universal recipes to make and to compactly organise such computations, not only for the leading order in N, but also to all orders of expansion in 1/N. In this way connections are established to domains like enumerative geometry, tropical geometry, mirror symmetry, topological and more generally low-dimensional quantum field theories where topological recursion has also been applied.
Concretely, the last 10 years have witnessed the developement
The workshop will explore the consequences of these remarkable algebraic structures axiomatised in topological recursion for problems in noncommutative geometry and free probability. Knowledge will also flow in the other direction, as the very nature of topological recursion hints at connections to (noncommutative) algebraic geometry and to Hopf algebraic structures and Connes-Kreimer renormalisation.
Mathematical models and phenomena under consideration are common to all these fields, and we wish to unite the strength of probabilistic/asymptotic, algebraic/geometric and combinatorial approaches for the benefit of all the communities involved. This interaction should in fine lead to a better geometric understanding, more powerful computational tools, and new results.
Elba Garcia-Failde (IRIF, Université Paris Diderot)
Walter van Suijlekom (IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Roland Speicher (Fachrichtung Mathematik, Universität des Saarlandes)
Bertrand Eynard (Institut de Physique Théorique, Paris-Saclay / IHÉS)
Gaëtan Borot (Institut für Mathematik & Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Masoud Khalkhali (Department of Mathematics, University of Western Ontario)
Hannah Markwig (Fachbereich Mathematik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Jörg Schürmann (Mathematisches Institut, WWU Münster)
Raimar Wulkenhaar (Mathematisches Institut, WWU Münster)
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An online summer school on K-Theory and Representation Theory, organized by N. Higson, R. Plymen and H. Sengun and sponsored by the London Mathematical Society and the Isaac Newton Institute, will take place 19-23 July 2021.
There will be four lecture series:
– Basic representation theory of p-adic Lie groups, by Anne-Marie Aubert
– Basic representation theory of real Lie groups, by Peter Hochs
– Basics of group C*-algebras and K-theory, by Bram Mesland
– Dirac operators and representation theory, by Hang Wang
The lectures will be aimed towards graduate students, but all are welcome to attend. Registration and further information are at https://sites.google.com/view/bath-21-dirac-induction/home
My book SHELL BEACH - the search for the final theory is now out. In the book, which is written for a general audience, I discuss topics such as noncommutative geometry, loop quantum gravity and the question of a final theory - mixed with a dose of whitewater kayaking and massive (intellectual) waterfalls
Best wishes, Jesper Grimstrup