Is Oscar Del Barco a perverse man?

How perverse is TQFT?

In this talk we will introduce Jones polynomial and Khovanov's homology of a knot. These topological invariants are (conjecturally) related to perverse sheaves on Grassmannians. We will try to understand how, and how understanding that might lead to new developments in Topological Quantum Field Theory.

Man Is a Microcosm

Oscar - Dss

OSCAR-DSS is a generic decision support system based upon OSCAR—a general-purpose programmable architecture for rational agents. OSCAR-DSS is a partial implementation of that architecture, with some minor modifications to convert it to a decision support system that merely recommends actions rather than performing them. OSCAR-DSS has been further instantiated to produce OSCAR-MDA, a medical dec...

Perverse Sheaves on Grassmannians

We give a complete quiver description of the category of perverse sheaves on Hermitian symmetric spaces in types A and D, constructible with respect to the Schubert stratification. The calculation is microlocal, and uses the action of the Borel group to study the geometry of the conormal variety Λ.

Is It Oscar-Worthy? Children’s Metarepresentational Understanding of Acting

Although it is an essential aspect of one of the most common forms of entertainment, psychologists know almost nothing about how children understand the act of portraying a character in a realistic manner-realistic acting. Do children possess the sort of meta-theory of acting that adults possess? In two studies we find that, unlike adults, children between the ages of 3-5 do not think that a re...