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Geometry and String Theory
Spring 2014

## Spring 2014 Schedule

Date | Speaker | Topic
--- | --- | ---
1/15 | Harold Williams | Bruhat cells and super Yang-Mills
1/22 | The Organizers | Organizational Meeting
1/29 | — | No talk
2/5 | Pavel Safronov | Costello on N=1 supersymmetry
2/12 | Andy Trimm | Tachikawa on S-duality in five dimensions
2/19 | Dan Freed | AST/FT on extended operators
2/26 | Tudor Dimofte | TBA
3/5 | David Ben-Zvi | TFT structures in N=2 theories
3/12 | — | No talk (spring break)
3/19 | Jacob Bourjaily | TBA
3/26 | Yu-Shen Lin | TBA
4/2 | Andy Neitzke | Kapustin-Seiberg on coupling TFT to physical theories
4/9 | ??? | ???
4/16 | Aswin Balasubramanian | Borel-Ecalle summability, resurgence and QFTs.
4/23 | ??? | ???
4/30 | Jaroslav Trnka | The amplituhedron

### References

#### Super Yang-Mills in 5 dimensions

- Y. Tachikawa, On S-duality of 5d super Yang-Mills on S 1 S^1

#### 𝒩=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills in 4 dimensions

- A. Sen, Dyon-Monopole Bound States, Self-Dual Harmonic Forms on the Multi-Monopole Moduli Space, and SL(2,Z) Invariance in String Theory
- C. Vafa, Geometric Origin of Montonen-Olive Duality
- Arkani-Hamed and Trnka, The Amplituhedron
- Arkani-Hamed and Trnka, Into The Amplituhedron

#### Reduction to 3 dimensions

- Dimofte, Gaiotto, Gukov, Gauge Theories Labelled by 3-Manifolds
- Cecotti, Cordova, Vafa, Braids, Walls and Mirrors

#### 4D 𝒩=2\mathcal{N}=2

- Argyres, Plesser, Seiberg The Moduli Space of N=2 SUSY QCD and Duality in N=1 SUSY QCD
- N. Nekrasov and V. Pestun, Seiberg-Witten geometry of four dimensional N=2 quiver gauge theories
- Nekrasov, Pestun and Shatashvili, Quantum geometry and quiver gauge theories
- Tachikawa On the 6d origin of discrete additional data of 4d gauge theories
- Gaiotto, Seiberg and Tachikawa, Comments on scaling limits of 4d N=2 theories
- Tachikawa, A pseudo-mathematical pseudo-review on 4d N=2 supersymmetric QFTs

#### 4d N=1

- Costello, Supersymmetric gauge theory and the Yangian
- Costello and Scheimbauer, Lectures on mathematical aspects of (twisted) supersymmetric gauge theories

#### Extended operators in topological field theory

- Aharony, Seiberg and Tachikawa, Reading between the lines of four-dimensional gauge theories
- Gukov and Kapustin, Topological Quantum Field Theory, Nonlocal Operators, and Gapped Phases of Gauge Theories
- Seiberg and Kapustin, Coupling a QFT to a TQFT and Duality

#### Stokes Phenomena, Resurgence, Transseries

- Gualtieri, Li, Pym, The Stokes Groupoids
- Argyres, Unsal, The semi-classical expansion and resurgence in gauge theories: new perturbative, instanton, bion, and renormalon effects

#### Generalities on field theory

- Abdesselam, QFT, RG, and all that, for mathematicians, in eleven pages
- Cattaneo, Mnev, Reshetikhin, Semiclassical quantization of classical field theories
- Bilal, Ferrari, Multi-Loop Zeta Function Regularization and Spectral Cutoff in Curved Spacetime

Created on July 31, 2014 15:54:09 by Jacques Distler