Geometry and String Theory
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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 Fall 2015 Schedule

DateSpeakerTopic
1/21 8/26Organizational Meeting
1/28 9/2 Tudor Valentin Dimofte Zakharevich A Kitaev’s three-dimensional Toric bridge Code between physics and mathematics
2/4 9/9Jacques DistlerSuper Riemann Surfaces
2/11 9/16 Jacques David Distler Simmons-Duffin ??Super Riemann Surfaces, II
2/18 9/23 Bei Jia Superstring Perturbation Theory
2/25 9/30Harold WilliamsCY3 categories associated to SL_2 Hitchin systems
3/4 10/7Andrew NeitzkeChern-Simons and abelianization
3/11 10/14Dan XieTopology of RG and Morse theory
3/25 10/21Fei YanElliptic genera of 2d N=2 gauge theories (1308.4896)
4/1 10/28 Andy Michele Trimm Del Zotto 6d TBA conformal matter (1407.6359)
4/8 11/4Yinan Zhu6d SCFT
4/15 11/11Tom Mainiero + Richard Hughes
4/22 11/18Tom Mainiero + Richard Hughes
4/29 12/2Andrew Neitzke + Harold Williams
5/6Andrew Neitzke + Harold Williams

References

The Conformal (2,0) Field theory Theory reduced Generalities to 3 dimensions

4D Unitary Representations of the (super)Conformal Algebra𝒩=2\mathcal{N}=2

Extended Crossing operators Symmetry in and topological Conformal field Blocks theory

Generalities The on (super)Conformal field Bootstrap theory

Resurgence, The TQFTs Superconformal Index

Uniqueness of the 6D (2,0) Theories, the a-Theorem and Anomalies

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

Costello-style QFT

Miscellany

Old classics

  • E. Witten, Supersymmetry and Morse theory

  • Mirzakhani on Witten conjecture