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Dreams of Earth and Sky: Introduction

Robbert Dijkgraaf and Nathan Seiberg

Welcome, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Opening Remarks, Nathan Seiberg, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study

GIT and $\mu$-GIT

Dietmar Salamon

In this lecture I will explain the moment-weight inequality, and its role in the proof of the Hilbert-Mumford numerical criterion for $\mu$-stability. The setting is Hamiltonian group actions on closed Kaehler manifolds. The major ingredients are...

Previous studies of kinetic transport in the Lorentz gas have been limited to cases where the scatterers are distributed at random (e.g. at the points of a spatial Poisson process) or at the vertices of a Euclidean lattice. In this talk I will...