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Geometry and String Theory
Fall 2014

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.

## Fall 2014 Schedule

Date | Speaker | Topic
--- | --- | ---
8/27 |  | Organizational Meeting
9/3 | Eric Zaslow | Legendrian Knots and Constructible Sheaves
9/10 | Andy Trimm | Aharony-Seiberg-Tachikawa
9/17 | Andy Neitzke | Dessins and Seiberg-Witten curves
9/24 | Andy Royston | singular monopole moduli spaces
10/1 | Aaron Fenyes | semiclassical quantization of classical field theory
10/8 | Eric Korman | Branes and Quantization (Gukov-Witten)
10/15 |  |
10/22 | Tom Mainiero | Algebraic equations and BPS states
10/29 | Bei Jia | Branes and Flag Manifolds
11/5 | Chan Park | A stroll along the walls
11/12 | Chris Beem | Chiral algebras from four dimensions
11/19 | Wenbin Yan | TBA
12/3 | Jacques Distler | TBA

### References

#### The (2,0) theory reduced 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

- 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

#### 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

#### 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

#### Resurgence, TQFTs

- R. Couso-SantamarÃa, J. Edelstein, R. Schiappa, M. Vonk, Resurgent Transseries and the Holomorphic Anomaly: Nonperturbative Closed Strings in Local ℂℙ 2\mathbb{CP}^2
- P. Argyres and M. Unsal, The semi-classical expansion and resurgence in gauge theories: new perturbative, instanton, bion, and renormalon effects

#### (1,0)(1,0) SCFTs in 6 Dimensions

- J. Heckman, D. Morrison, C. Vafa, On the Classification of 6D SCFTs and Generalized ADE Orbifolds
- M. Del Zotto, J. Heckman, A. Tomasiello, C. Vafa, 6d Conformal Matter

#### Costello-style QFT

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

- T. Nguyen, Quantization of the Nonlinear Sigma Model Revisited

#### Miscellany

- K. Ohmori and Y. Tachikawa, Physics at the entangling surface

- K. Maruyoshi, Y. Tachikawa, W. Yan, K. Yonekura, Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking with T_N Theory

- S. Ashok, F. Cachazo, E. Dell’Aquila, Children…™s Drawings From Seiberg-Witten Curves

#### Old classics

- E. Witten, Supersymmetry and Morse theory

- Mirzakhani on Witten conjecture

Created on February 03, 2015 00:55:00 by Jacques Distler