RIT on Geometry and Physics Archives for Fall 2023 to Spring 2024
Organizational meeting for Fall 2022
When: Thu, September 1, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91434115599
Speaker: Organizational meeting for Fall 2022 () -
Abstract: We will try to pick a topic for Fall 2022. You can see https://www-math.umd.edu/research/seminars/rit-on-geometry-and-phsyics.html for topics we've covered in recent years, as well as the Zoom seminar schedules from the WHCGP:
http://web.math.ucsb.edu/~drm/WHCGP/
and the Wales MPPM seminar:
https://davidemrysevans.wordpress.com/wales-mppm-zoom-seminar/
Introduction to SUSY Representation Theory Using Adinkras
When: Thu, September 8, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1117, or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91351619368
Speaker: S. Jim Gates (UMd (Physics)) - https://umdphysics.umd.edu/people/faculty/current/item/167-gatess.html
Introduction to SUSY Representation Theory Using Adinkras (cont'd))
When: Thu, September 15, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 0405 (note room change), or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91351619368
Speaker: S. Jim Gates (UMd (Physics)) - https://umdphysics.umd.edu/people/faculty/current/item/167-gatess.html
The definition and properties of Adinkras
When: Thu, September 29, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 0405 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91351619368
Speaker: S. Jim Gates (UMd (Physics)) - https://umdphysics.umd.edu/people/faculty/current/item/167-gatess.html
The complex linear supermultiplet
When: Thu, October 6, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 0405 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91351619368
Speaker: Ethan Levy (UMd)
The Poincaré and super-Poincaré algebras
When: Thu, October 13, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 0405 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91351619368
Speaker: Ezra Aylaian (UMd)
Representation Theory of Supergroup Schemes
When: Thu, October 20, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 0405 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91351619368
Speaker: Saul Hilsenrath (UMd)
A Category-Theoretic Résumé of Supergeometry, II
When: Thu, October 27, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 0405 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91351619368
Speaker: Saul Hilsenrath (UMd)
Supergravity from a Maurer-Cartan point of view
When: Thu, November 3, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 0405 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91351619368
Speaker: Konstantinos Koutrolikos (UMd Physics)
More on adinkras
When: Thu, November 10, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 0405 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91351619368
Speaker: Jim Gates (UMd Physics)
Minimal (0,1)-supersymmetry and string structures, after Gaiotto, Johnson-Freyd, and Witten
When: Thu, November 17, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 0405 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91351619368
Speaker: Jonathan Rosenberg (UMd Math)
The WZW model and supersymmetry
When: Thu, December 1, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 0405 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91351619368
Speaker: Jim Gates (UMd Physics)
Supersymmetric Born-Infeld theory in 3D and T/bar T flows
When: Thu, December 8, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 0405 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/91351619368
Speaker: Konstantinos Koutrolikos (UMd Physics)
Organizational meeting geometry/physics RIT
When: Thu, January 26, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1201 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/95941961808?pwd=UDdOUDh4OGI0d3dSOUduSnFGblAzQT09
Introduction to topological quantum computing
When: Thu, February 2, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1201 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/95941961808?pwd=UDdOUDh4OGI0d3dSOUduSnFGblAzQT09
Speaker: Junaid Aftab (UMd)
Introduction to quantum computation
When: Thu, February 9, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1201 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/95941961808?pwd=UDdOUDh4OGI0d3dSOUduSnFGblAzQT09
Speaker: Eric Kubsichta and Ian Teixeira (UMd)
Fusion categories and topological quantum computing
When: Thu, February 16, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1201 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/95941961808?pwd=UDdOUDh4OGI0d3dSOUduSnFGblAzQT09
Speaker: Jonathan Rosenberg (UMd)
Braid group representations and Temperley–Lieb algebras
When: Thu, February 23, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1201 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/95941961808?pwd=UDdOUDh4OGI0d3dSOUduSnFGblAzQT09
Speaker: Michael Winer (UMd Physics)
Canceled for this week
When: Thu, March 2, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere:
Canceled for this week
When: Thu, March 9, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere:
Ribbon fusion categories, part 1
When: Thu, March 16, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1201 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/95941961808?pwd=UDdOUDh4OGI0d3dSOUduSnFGblAzQT09
Speaker: Henry Denson
Anyons
When: Thu, March 30, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1201 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/95941961808?pwd=UDdOUDh4OGI0d3dSOUduSnFGblAzQT09
Speaker: Jim Gates (UMd physics)
Abstract: The idea of topological quantum computing is to use anyonic states to "rigidify" quantum information to make error correction more feasible. That raises the questions: What are anyons? Do they really exist? Has anyone seen them?
not meeting this week
When: Thu, April 6, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere:
Ribbon fusion categories, part 2
When: Thu, April 13, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1201 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/95941961808?pwd=UDdOUDh4OGI0d3dSOUduSnFGblAzQT09
Speaker: Junaid Aftab (UMd)
Introduction to quantum groups
When: Thu, April 20, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1201 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/95941961808?pwd=UDdOUDh4OGI0d3dSOUduSnFGblAzQT09
Speaker: Junaid Aftab (UMd)
not meeting this week
When: Thu, April 27, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1201 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/95941961808?pwd=UDdOUDh4OGI0d3dSOUduSnFGblAzQT09
more about quantum groups
When: Thu, May 4, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1201 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/95941961808?pwd=UDdOUDh4OGI0d3dSOUduSnFGblAzQT09
Current topics in topological quantum computing
When: Thu, May 11, 2023 - 3:30pmWhere: Toll Physics Bldg. 1201 or online at https://umd.zoom.us/j/95941961808?pwd=UDdOUDh4OGI0d3dSOUduSnFGblAzQT09
Speaker: Yu-An Chen (QuICS, UMd)