Two ICTP Colloquia on 10 and 11 October in MLH

[Zina Makkawi]

First ICTP COLLOQUIUM

16:30, Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Main Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP

Nuclear Energy - "Green" and "Sustainable" Fusion Fission Hybrids

Swadesh Mahajan
Institute for Fusion Studies
University of Texas


Second ICTP COLLOQUIUM

16:30, Thursday, 11 October 2012
Main Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP

Counting geometry
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas
ICTP


Abstract: A. Weil discovered in the 1940's that the geometry of a 
complex  algebraic variety is reflected in a precise way on its versions 
over  finite fields.  This leads to the possibility of gaining geometric 
  insight from counting. In this talk I will discuss the general 
principle and describe how it can be applied to certain character 
varieties. These spaces are an incarnation of those introduced by 
Hitchin in 1986 that classify solutions to a two-dimensional  reduction 
of the self-dual Yang-Mills equation of mathematical  physics.