Benoit Charbonneau, Visiting Assistant Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	108 Physics Bldg
Office Phone:	(919)660-2844
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2008):

• MATH 108.03, ORD & PRTL DIFF EQUATIONS

  Physics 235, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• MATH 108.04, ORD & PRTL DIFF EQUATIONS

  Physics 235, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Education:

PhD	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2004
MSc	Université du Québec à Montréal	1999
BSc	Université du Québec à Montréal	1998

Specialties:

Geometry

Research Interests: Gauge theory, more specifically Nahm transforms, Yang-Mills instantons, and their dimensional reductions

Keywords:

Gauge theory • Nahm transform • Periodic Yang-Mills instantons • Gravitational instantons

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Benoit Charbonneau and Jacques Hurtubise, The Nahm transform for calorons, in The many facets of geometry: a tribute to Nigel Hitchin, edited by Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Oscar Garcia-Prada and Simon Salamon (Accepted, 2008), Oxford University Press [2412]  [abs]
2. Benoit Charbonneau and Jacques Hurtubise, Calorons, Nahm's equations on S^1 and bundles over P^1xP^1, Comm. Math. Phys. (2008) [s00220-008-0468-7]  [abs] [author's comments]
3. Benoit Charbonneau, Yuriy Svyrydov, and P.F. Tupper, Convergence in the Prokhorov Metric of Weak Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations (Submitted, 2007) [4466]  [abs]
4. Benoit Charbonneau, From spatially periodic instantons to singular monopoles, Comm. Anal. Geom., vol. 14 no. 1 (2006), pp. 183--214 [MR2007c:53036], [0410561]  [abs]
5. Benoit Charbonneau, Analytic aspects of periodic instantons (2004), Cambridge, MA, USA [pdf]  [author's comments]

Conferences Organized

• Annual East Coast Geometry Festival, April 25-27, 2008  
• Workshop on non-linear integral transforms: Fourier-Mukai and Nahm, Co-organizer, August 27, 2007 - August 31, 2007