A recording of Haynes Miller’s lecture The “Sullivan Conjecture” and Its Impact is now available at our YouTube channel: Haynes Miller - The “Sullivan Conjecture” and Its Impact 

We invite academics, researchers, and students to virtually attend the upcoming conference, "Descriptive Decisionism: Revisiting the Thought of Panagiotis Kondylis," which will be held virtually on Zoom, from Tuesday, December 3rd to Thursday, December 5th. 

Panagiotis Kondylis (1943–1998) was a Greek philosopher and intellectual historian whose work traversed critical domains such as German idealism, social ontology, and the philosophy of war. This conference seeks to examine Kondylis’s methodological contributions, analyze his major works, and explore intersections with other intellectual traditions, fostering nuanced and critical engagement with his legacy.

The confernece program will include a range of presentations and a roundtable discussion by contributing scholars, addressing themes in Kondylis’s work and its application to contemporary challenges in political theory, social analysis, and intellectual history. For more information and a detailed schedule, please visit the conference website: 

Today we are privileged to host a lecture by Haynes Miller titled The “Sullivan Conjecture” and Its Impact. Lecture will commence on Zoom at 9 AM Pacific Time.

On November 14th we are privileged to host a lecture by Haynes Miller from MIT.

Lecture titled The “Sullivan Conjecture” and Its Impact will commence on Zoom at 9 AM Pacific Time.

Professor Miller will survey the history of his proof of the Sullivan conjecture, including generalizations by Lannes, Carlsson and Dwyer-Miller-Neisendorfer. He will also discuss its influence on the theory of p-compact groups, the homotopical analogue of compact Lie groups. This talk is a part of our Perspectives in Mathematics series. 

Recordings from Perspectives in Theoretical Physics Colloquium are now available on our YouTube channel:

• Peter Goddard, String Theory In Its Early Years

• Helen Quinn, Mistakes On A Way To Good Idea

• Albert Schwarz, Topology and Physics

• Paolo Di Vecchia, The Birth Of String Theory And The Effective Lagrangian Of QCD

• John Cardy, Conformal Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics - a Personal Perspective

• Gregory Moore, From RCFT To MTC

• Emil Martinec, Worldsheet Histories – Developing The Conceptual Framework of String Theory

We are pleased to invite all those who preregistered to attend the upcoming Perspectives in Theoretical Physics Colloquium. 

If you have preregistered via our mailing list, you will receive the Zoom invitation links by email over the weekend. Please ensure to check your inbox prior to the event.

The colloquium will begin next Monday, September 23rd, and continue through Friday, September 27th, featuring talks by leading figures in theoretical physics:

Monday:

• 9 AM PDT: Peter Goddard (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Emeritus) – String Theory in Its Early Years

• 11 AM PDT: Helen Quinn (SLAC, Stanford University, Emeritus) – Mistakes on a Way to a Good Idea

Tuesday:

• 9 AM PDT: Albert Schwarz (University of California, Davis, Emeritus) – Topology and Physics

Wednesday: 

• 7 AM PDT: Paolo Di Vecchia (Nordita) – The Birth of String Theory and the Effective Lagrangian of QCD

• 9 AM PDT: John Cardy (All Souls College, Oxford) – Conformal Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics – a Personal Perspective

Thursday:

• 9 AM PDT: Gregory Moore (Rutgers University) – From RCFT to MTC

Friday:

• 9 AM PDT: Emil Martinec (University of Chicago) – Worldsheet Histories – Developing the Conceptual Framework of String Theory

For a detailed schedule and abstracts please refer here.

We regret to inform that the talk by Yuxi Liu from Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, titled “History of Neural Networks” has been postponed. 

A new date remains to be determined, and we are actively coordinating with the speaker to reschedule. Updates on the new date and time will be provided as soon as they are available.

Join us later in September for 5 day Perspectives in Theoretical Physics Colloquium starting on Monday of September 23rd. 

Our Perspectives series dedicated to chronicling landmark scientific achievements in their historic and contemporary context, narrated by pioneers themselves, for the benefit of a professional audience in an academic conference format. 

Pre-register by joining our Discord or by singing up using the Mailing List.

Recording of Shing-Tung Yau’s talk “Li-Yau Estimates for Parabolic Equations and Their Extension by Hamilton and Perelman to Ricci Flow” is now available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyldfI5l7qo 

Tonight we are privileged to host a lecture by Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau.

Lecture titled “Li-Yau Estimates for Parabolic Equations and Their Extension by Hamilton and Perelman to Ricci Flow” will commence on Zoom at 6 PM PDT. 

Dr. Yau will survey the history of Li-Yau inequality, from 1986 to study heat equations on manifolds, and through Hamilton’s adaptation for tensors in the Ricci flow, to Perelman's extensions that influenced techniques in solving the Poincaré conjecture.