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Benoit Charbonneau, Visiting Assistant Professor

Benoit Charbonneau
Contact Info:
Office Location:  108 Physics Bldg
Office Phone:  (919)660-2844
Email Address: send me a message

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:

PhDMassachusetts Institute of Technology2004
MScUniversité du Québec à Montréal1999
BScUniversité du Québec à Montréal1998
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  

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