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This is an expository lecture, for the Abel bicentennial (Oslo, 2002), describing some recent work on the (small) quantum cohomology ring of Grassmannians and other homogeneous varieties.

The bounds on the Higgs mass in the Standard Model are re-analyzed using the precision electroweak data presented at the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Brussels, 27 July -- 2 August, 1995

GGR News: GGR program at the APS April meeting in Dallas We hear that..., 100 years ago, by Jorge Pullin Research Briefs: What's new in LIGO, by David Shoemaker LISA Pathfinder, by Paul McNamara Recent progress in binary black hole…

In this lecture, I review some of the perspectives on the Higgs boson discussed at the Higgs Hunting 2012 Worshop and discuss the short- and long-term aspects of Higgs physics.

Recent gravitational-wave observations from the LIGO and Virgo observatories have brought a sense of great excitement to scientists and citizens the world over. Since September 2015,10 binary black hole coalescences and one binary neutron…

Lectures presented at the Les Houches 2016 Summer School "Integrability: from Statistical Systems to Gauge Theory".

These are extended notes of a series of lectures given at the XIth Brazilian School of Cosmology and Gravitation. They provide a selection of topics at the intersection of particle and astrophysics. The first part gives a short introduction…

The four lectures that I gave in the XIII Ciclo de Cursos Especiais at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio in October 2008 were (1) a brief history of dark matter and structure formation in a LambdaCDM universe; (2) challenges to…

GGR News: Message from the Chair, by Jim Isenberg Einstein@Home, by Bernard Schutz We hear that..., by Jorge Pullin 100 Years ago, by Jorge Pullin Research Briefs: What's new in LIGO, by David Shoemaker Frame-dragging in the news in 2004,…

GGR News: we hear that... 100 years ago GGR program at the APS meeting in Savannah, GA Conference reports: GR20/Amaldi10 Conference in Warsaw, Poland School and workshop on quantum gravity in Brazil

Lectures given at the First School on Field Theory and Gravitation, Vit\'{o}ria, Esp\'{\i}rito Santo, Brazil, 15-19 April, 1997.

Lectures on self-gravitating black holes and monopoles given at a Summer School in Lisbon in 1990 which contain material still of relevance.

These lecture notes consist of an introduction to moduli spaces in algebraic geometry, with a strong emphasis placed on examples related to the theory of quiver representations. The goal is to provide the background necessary to understand…

It is a working version of a lecture on the theory of enlargement of filtration, given at the African Mathematic School in Marrakech, October 19-23, 2015.

Introductory lectures notes on cosmology, aimed at master students in physics and based on a course held at Milano University (in Italian).

Upcoming microwave background experiments will see an incredible increase in the volume of data to be analyzed, which makes the choice of how it is discretized on the sky a crucial issue. I discuss criteria for evaluating different…

These are notes for a series of five lectures on "Moduli and degenerations of algebraic curves via tropical geometry" delivered at the CIMPA-CIMAT-ICTP School on Moduli of Curves, February 29-March 4, 2016 in Guanajuato, Mexico.

This paper is the textual material accompanying the 2017 Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture, delivered by the author on 28 June 2017, at a joint session of the American Meteorological Society's 21st Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic…

Recently delivered lectures on Self-Referential Mathematics, [2], at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria, are briefly presented. Comments follow on the subject, as well as on Inconsistent…

These notes are based on a series of lectures given by the author at the Centre Bernoulli (EPFL) in July 2016. They aim at illustrating the importance of the mod-$\ell$ cohomology of Deligne--Lusztig varieties in the modular representation…