Geometry and String Theory
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This is the homepage for the UT Geometry and String Theory Seminar. At the organizational meeting we will flesh out the details of our plans for the semester. Below are some suggestions to get us started.

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Fall 2008 Schedule

At This least semester, for we the Fall, the seminar will take cover place several topics:online.

Fall 2022 Schedule

  1. Superconformal Boundary Conditions for N=4 Super Yang-Mills, and the connections with 3D Mirror Symmetry
  2. Kontsevich-Soibelman, Donaldson-Thomas Theory and Wall-Crossing Formulæ for N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
  3. Developments in Rozansky-Witten Theory
DateSpeakerTopic
8/24 9/3Distler Organizational Mirror Meeting Symmetry for 3D Gauge Theories
8/31 9/10 Jacques Freed Distler Non-invertible HyperKΓ€hler symmetries Manifolds
9/7 9/17 Amir ben Raz Zvi Non-invertible ? duality defects
9/14 9/24 Andreas ? Karch Non-invertible ? symmetries in the SM
9/21 10/1 Ricky ? Wedeen?
9/28 10/8 Ryan Neitzke Spieler Topological Four-dimensional Holography wall-crossing via three-dimensional field theory
10/5 10/15 * Rozansky?
10/12 10/22 Brian ? Kent Observable ? Algebra in dS
10/19 10/29 * ? Haoyu Sun Observable ? Algebra in dS
10/26 11/5??
11/2 11/12 Monica ? Kang Bulk ? reconstruction with nonperturbative gravity
11/9 11/19??
11/16 12/3Arkani-HamedWhat is the Simplest Quantum Field Theory?
11/30Alex Lu

Spring 2023 Schedule

References

DateSpeakerTopic
1/11Organizational Meeting
1/18Jacques Distler4D 𝒩=2\mathcal{N}=2 SCFTs and 2D VOAs
1/25Chiara DamioliniVertex (Poisson) Algebras and (chiral) symplectic cores
2/1David Ben-Zvicancelled
2/8David Ben-ZviHiggs branches, vertex algebras and factorization algebras
2/15David Ben-Zvicontinued
2/22Grant ElliotClass S
3/1Dan FreedAnomalies
3/8Mianqi WangAnomalies on the lattice
3/22Andreas KarchAnomalies on the lattice
3/29Ryan Spieler
4/5Charlie ReidIrregular Riemman-Hilbert correspondence
4/12Charlie Reid, Sunghyuk Parkcontinued, The exact WKB method
4/19Sunghyuk Parkcontinued
4/26
5/3

Superconformal Boundary Conditions for N=4 Super Yang-Mills

References

Brane Quantization and Analytic Geometric Langlands

Kontesevich-Soibelman

Anomaly in S-duality Symmetry of IIB

Rozansky-Witten Theory

Topological Holography

Categorical Symmetries

Mass Gap in 2D Gauge Theory

Twisted supergravity and Koszul duality

Topological Defect Networks

Haah Codes

Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory

Complex Chern-Simons theory, resurgence, and quantum modularity

3d/3d correspondence, spectral networks, and abelianization

Non-semisimple TQFTs