Yevgeny Dyakonov

Interview with Alexander Goncharov

Prof. Alexander Goncharov is the first Gretchen and Barry Mazur Chairholder at IHES and a Professor in Mathematics at Yale University. In this interview he explains how he became interested in mathematics, his connection with IHES and with Barry Mazur, and talks about his research interest

From playlist Les entretiens de l'IHES

Gagarin Funeral (1968)

Gagarin the first man in space died in a plane crash. See here footage from his funeral in 1968. No title. Funeral of Russian spaceman / cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Moscow (USSR, Soviet Union). L/S crowds queuing up outside Central House of the Soviet Army to file past urns of ashes of Yu

From playlist FUNERALS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev: The Current State of Ukraine’s Government

Yuriy Sergeyev is a former Ukrainian diplomat and politician, who has served as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. He is here at Yale as a visiting fellow in the Council on European Studies at the MacMillan Center. Episode April 20, 2016

From playlist The MacMillan Report

Peter Ustinov - Three Depressing Love Songs from Russia, Norway and Spain

From playlist Peter Ustinov - Audio Recordings

Vladimir Alexandrov: The Black Russian

October 1, 2014 Professor Alexandrov is an expert on 19th- and 20th-century Russian prose— especially the works of Leo Tolstoy, Andrei Bely and Vladimir Nabokov—and on literary theory. Professor Alexandrov is the author of the books Andrei Bely: The Major Symbolist Fiction, Nabokov's Other

From playlist The MacMillan Report

The Quantum Hype Bubble Is About To Burst

Try out my quantum mechanics course (and many others on math and science) on https://brilliant.org/sabine. You can get started for free, and the first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. How much of what you hear about quantum computing is real promise and how much of it

From playlist Physics

Minimal surfaces and geometry of the space of cycles - Yevgeny Liokumovich

Short talks by postdoctoral members Topic: Minimal surfaces and geometry of the space of cycles Speaker: Yevgeny Liokumovich Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics Date: September 28, 2018 For more video please visit http://video.ias.edu

From playlist Mathematics

Yakov Zel'dovich and Cosmology - Rashid Sunyaev

Renowned physicist Rashid Sunyaev delivers a talk on the life and work of Yakov Zel'dovich, his longtime collaborator, mentor, and friend, during the launch of the Centre for the Universe at Perimeter Institute on Monday, November 20, 2017. Read more about the Centre here: http://bit.ly/

From playlist Cosmology

Борис Н. Петров - Boris N. Petrov: Space Pioneer, Automatic Control Engineer(USSR)

The life of automatic control engineer Boris N. Petrov, a pioneer of the Russian space program. Борис Н. Петров Solved automatic control issues in rockets and ballistic missiles, He published many papers on control science with Vladislav Rutkovsky who narrates the story of his life. Leade

From playlist Russian Engineering

Minimal hypersurfaces in manifolds of finite volume - Yevgeny Liokumovich

Members' Seminar Topic: Minimal hypersurfaces in manifolds of finite volume Speaker: Yevgeny Liokumovich Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics Date: January 28, 2019 For more video please visit http://video.ias.edu

From playlist Mathematics

Almgren's isomorphism theorem and parametric isoperimetric inequalities - Yevgeny Liokumovich

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar Topic: Almgren's isomorphism theorem and parametric isoperimetric inequalities Speaker: Yevgeny Liokumovich Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, School of Mathematics Date: November 20, 2018 For more video please visit http:/

From playlist Variational Methods in Geometry

Stalin - The Power of Fear

Portraits of Power - Stalin - The Power of Fear Narrated by Herny Fonda Joseph Stalin (18 December 1878 -- 5 March 1953), was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. The word "Stalin" derived from the russian word for "Steel", big brother, Harrison E. S

From playlist Portraits of Power - Those who shaped the Twentieth Century

Yevgeny Liokumovich (9/10/21): Urysohn width, isoperimetric inequalities and scalar curvature

There exists a positive constant c(n) with the following property. If M is a metric space, such that every ball B of radius 1 in M has Hausdorff n-dimensional measure less than c(n), then there exists a continuous map f from M to (n-1)-dimensional simplicial complex, such that every pre-im

From playlist Vietoris-Rips Seminar

My husband was a KGB agent - BBC REEL

Since 2012, Nobel prize writer Svetlana Alexievich has interviewed hundreds of people in Russia for her upcoming book about love. In this excerpt, Alexevich speaks with a psychologist who describes her life under surveillance after she married a KGB agent. Excerpt from the film Lyubov -

From playlist Reel History

Союз - Аполлон / Space: Apollo-Soyuz Leader Boris Petrov

Control engineer Boris N. Petrov was the leader on the Russian side of the Apollo-Soyuz Program 1975. His work included solving fuel consumption problems for rockets and a myriad of other technical issues. The Edison Tech Center interviewed Vladislav Rutkovsky - living pioneer in Russian

From playlist Russian Engineering

Foliations of 3-manifolds of Positive Scalar Curvature by Surfaces of Controlled Size

Yevgeny Liokumovich (University of Toronto) Abstract: Let M be a compact 3-manifold with scalar curvature at least 1. We show that there exists a Morse function f on M, such that every connected component of every fiber of f has genus, area and diameter bounded by a universal constant. T

From playlist Informal Geometric Analysis Seminar

Existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces in closed manifolds - Antoine Song

Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar Topic: Existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces in closed manifolds Speaker: Antoine Song Affiliation: Princeton University Date: October 23, 2018 For more video please visit http://video.ias.edu

From playlist Variational Methods in Geometry

C. Li - Classifying sufficiently connected PSC manifolds in 4 and 5 dimensions (version temporaire)

In this talk, I will discuss some recent developments on the topology of closed manifolds admitting Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature. In particular, we will prove if a closed PSC manifold of dimension 4 (resp. 5) has vanishing π2 (resp. vanishing π2 and π3), then a finite co

From playlist Ecole d'été 2021 - Curvature Constraints and Spaces of Metrics

Kosygin - De Gaulle (1966)

A meeting of Kosygin and Charles de Gaulle, President of the french Republic in 1966. Paris, France. GV. Arc de Triomphe, Paris. LV. Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin laying wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. GV. Kosygin and party standing to attention, & SV. SV. Interior,

From playlist RUSSIAN LEADERS

C. Li - Classifying sufficiently connected PSC manifolds in 4 and 5 dimensions

In this talk, I will discuss some recent developments on the topology of closed manifolds admitting Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature. In particular, we will prove if a closed PSC manifold of dimension 4 (resp. 5) has vanishing π2 (resp. vanishing π2 and π3), then a finite co

From playlist Ecole d'été 2021 - Curvature Constraints and Spaces of Metrics