Geometry and String Theory
Spring 2009

Spring 2009 Schedule

This semester, we will cover a motely collection of topics with no obvios relation between them.

DateSpeakerTopic
1/28Jacob LurieDiscussion with Lurie about ETQFT and the Cobordism Hypothesis
2/4DistlerRecursion relations for scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity
2/11Jaume GomisM2 branes
2/18David Ben-ZviFactorization and OPE
2/25Eric SharpeNon-birational twisted derived equivalences and Gauged Linear σ-models
3/4Sean KeelK3 surfaces and torus fibrations (part I)
3/11Sean KeelK3 surfaces and torus fibrations (part II)
3/25Anindya DeyModular Differential Equations and Null Vectors (part I)
4/1Xi YinPartition Functions for 3D Gravity
4/8Graeme Segal?
4/15Graeme Segal?
4/22Anindya DeyModular Differential Equations and Null Vectors (Part II)
4/29??
5/6??

References

Chiral or Factorization Algebras

2d CFTs and 2+1 AdS gravity

Aswin’s talk (moved to theory brown bag on Mar 12) :

Modular Differential Equations and Null Vectors