Geometry and String Theory
HomePage (Rev #65)

This is the homepage for the UT Geometry and String Theory Seminar. At the organizational meeting we will choose some topics for the semester. Some suggestions with references are below. Please also come with your own suggestions.

Fall 2010 Schedule

DateSpeakerTopic
8/25The OrganizersOrganizational Meeting
9/1Jacques“Tinkertoys” for N=2N=2 theories
9/8OscarScattering amplitudes in N=4N=4 SYM
9/15AswinHirota equations and Quantum Integrable Systems
9/22Wilberth2D TFT
9/29Fernando Rodriguez VillegasThe dilogarithm function
10/6Jacob BourjailyThe All-Loop S-Matrix of N=4N=4 SYM (instructions included)
10/13Tim PerutzKhovanov’s link homology theory
10/20AndyFrobenius manifolds
10/27NOBODYNo talk this week
11/3NOBODYNo talk this week
11/10Anindya DeyLocalization and 3D Mirror Symmetry
11/17Anindya DeyLocalization and 3D Mirror Symmetry, continued
12/1Dan FreedQuantization and complexification

References

Gaiotto Duality

Super Yang-Mills Amplitudes

Pestun Localization in 4 and 3 dimensions

TBA, CFT, Y-system, dilog identities, Hirota Equations

2-dimensional topological field theory

Renormalization of Yang-Mills

Volume conjecture for hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Quantization and complexification