Benoit Charbonneau, Visiting Assistant Professor

Contact Info:

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

Teaching (Spring 2010):

• MATH 105.02, VECTOR CALCULUS Synopsis

  Physics 259, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• MATH 135.01, PROBABILITY Synopsis

  Physics 259, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Office Hours:

Monday 1:30-3:00 (priority to MTH 105)
Monday 3:00-4:30 (priority to MTH 135)

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, and moduli spaces of vector bundles

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Areas of Interest:

Differential geometry
Algebraic geometry
Gauge theory

Keywords:

Gauge theory • Nahm transform • Periodic Yang-Mills instantons • Gravitational instantons • Calorons • Monopoles • Moduli spaces of vector bundles

Curriculum Vitae

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 (March, 2010), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-953492-0 [2412]  [abs]
2. J.A. van Meel, B. Charbonneau, A. Fortini, and P. Charbonneau, Hard-sphere crystallization gets rarer with increasing dimension, Phys. Rev. E, vol. 80 (2009), pp. 061110 [PhysRevE.80.061110]  [abs]
3. Juli Atherton, Benoit Charbonneau, Xiaojie Zhou, David Wolfson, Lawrence Joseph and Alain C. Vandal, Bayesian optimal design for changepoint problems, Canadian Journal of Statistics, vol. 37 no. 4 (2009), pp. 495-513 [cjs.10037]  [abs]
4. Benoit Charbonneau, Yuriy Svyrydov, and P.F. Tupper, Convergence in the Prokhorov Metric of Weak Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (2009) [drn067]
5. Benoit Charbonneau and Jacques Hurtubise, Singular Hermitian-Einstein monopoles on the product of a circle and a Riemann surface (Submitted, January, 2009) [0221]

Conferences Organized

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