Geometry and String Theory
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This is the homepage for the UT Geometry and String Theory Seminar.

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
2/18 ?? David Ben-Zvi Factorization and OPE
2/25Eric Sharpe?
3/4Sean Keel SYZ K3 surfaces and torus fibrations (part I) {}^\vee for K3 (part I)
3/11Sean Keel SYZ K3 surfaces and torus fibrations (part II) {}^\vee for K3 (part II)
3/25Anindya DeyModular differential equations and null vectors
4/1Xi Yin?
4/8Graeme Segal?
4/15Graeme Segal?
4/22??
4/29??
5/6??

References

Chiral or Factorization Algebras

  • Frenkel/Ben-Zvi Frenkel and Ben-Zvi, Vertex Algebras and Algebraic Curves (2nd edition)
  • Lurie Gaitsgory, Notes on Factorizable Sheaves
  • Beilinson/Drinfeld Lurie, On the classification of topological field theories
  • etc Beilinson and Drinfeld, Chiral Algebras

Etc