SPEAKER:   Steven Rayan, Director, quanTA Centre and Professor, University of Saskatchewan

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TITLE:   "Moduli Spaces and Quantum Matter: From Materials to Pure Mathematics and Back"

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ABSTRACT:  The advent of topological materials, a form of physical matter with unusual but useful properties, has brought with it unexpected new connections between pure mathematics on the one side and physics, chemistry, and material science on the other side. As the name suggests, topology has played a significant role in understanding and classifying these materials. In this talk, I will offer a brief look at a vast extension to this story, arising from my work as a pure mathematician in collaboration with a number of individuals from the physical sciences over the last three years.  This work sees geometry — in particular, the complex algebraic geometry of Riemann surfaces and moduli spaces associated to them — being used to anticipate new models of quantum matter. There will be lots of pictures.

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TIME:  All in the Central Time Zone

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Meet and Greet:

• 2:00pm-2:30pm CST

​Talk:

• 2:30pm-3:20pm CST 

Questions:

• 3:20pm-3:30pm CST

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LOCATION:

The event will take place via Zoom.

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ZOOM LINK: https://uregina-ca.zoom.us/j/99484286876?pwd=b1JRNjRjRmRCaEFqekNJVEdob2NVQT09

Meeting ID: 994 8428 6876

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Passcode:  688175