Mathematical Conversations

Date:
Mar
19
2025

Mathematical Conversations

On Stable Commutator Length and its New Relatives
6:00pm|Simons Hall Dilworth Room

Stable commutator length (or scl) of group elements is a well-known, simple-to-define invariant, related to bounded cohomology and quasimorphisms. Yet its simple definition is a trap: many of the exciting developments around scl required "better"...

Mar
26
2025

Mathematical Conversations

Mind Your q’s — Quantum Rules on the Grassmannian
6:00pm|Simons Hall Dilworth Room

The theory of quantum cohomology was developed in the early 1990s by physicists working in the field of superstring theory.

Mathematicians then discovered applications to enumerative geometry, counting the number of rational curves of a given degree...