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.

Date	Speaker	Topic
1/28	Jacob Lurie	Discussion with Lurie about ETQFT and the Cobordism Hypothesis
2/4	Distler	Recursion relations for scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity
2/11	Jaume Gomis	M2 branes
2/18	?? David Ben-Zvi	Factorization and OPE
2/25	Eric Sharpe	?
3/4	Sean Keel	~~SYZ~~ K3 surfaces and torus fibrations (part I) ~~${}^\vee$~~ ~~for K3 (part I)~~
3/11	Sean Keel	~~SYZ~~ K3 surfaces and torus fibrations (part II) ~~${}^\vee$~~ ~~for K3 (part II)~~
3/25	Anindya Dey	Modular differential equations and null vectors
4/1	Xi Yin	?
4/8	Graeme Segal	?
4/15	Graeme Segal	?
4/22	?	?
4/29	?	?
5/6	?	?

~~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

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