Geometry and String Theory
HomePage (Rev #101)

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.

Spring 2014 Schedule

DateSpeakerTopic
1/15Harold WilliamsBruhat cells and super Yang-Mills
1/22The OrganizersOrganizational Meeting
1/29—-No talk
2/5Pavel SafronovCostello on N=1 supersymmetry
2/12Andy TrimmTachikawa on S-duality in five dimensions
2/19Tudor DimofteTBA
3/26Yu-Shen LinTBA

References

Super Yang-Mills in 5 dimensions

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

Reduction to 3 dimensions

4D 𝒩=2\mathcal{N}=2

4d N=1

Extended operators in topological field theory

Generalities on field theory