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
2/18David Ben-ZviFactorization and OPE
2/25Eric Sharpe?
3/4Sean KeelK3 surfaces and torus fibrations (part I)
3/11Sean KeelK3 surfaces and torus fibrations (part II)
3/25Anindya DeyModular differential equations and null vectors
4/1Xi Yin?
4/8Graeme Segal?
4/15Graeme Segal?
4/22 ? Aswin Balasubramanian ? Constraints on 2d CFTs and consequences for 2+1 AdS gravity .
4/29??
5/6??

References

Chiral or Factorization Algebras

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

2d CFTs and 2+1 AdS gravity

For Aswin’s talk : * A Universal Inequality for CFT and Quantum Gravity, S. Hellerman 0902.2790 * The String Landscape, Black Holes and Gravity as the Weakest Force, Arkani Hamed et al hep-th/0601001

Etc