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This is the homepage for the UT Geometry and String Theory Seminar.
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 | K3 surfaces and torus fibrations (part I) |
| 3/11 | Sean Keel | K3 surfaces and torus fibrations (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 | Aswin Balasubramanian | Constraints on 2d CFTs and consequences for 2+1 AdS gravity . |
| 4/29 | ? | ? |
| 5/6 | ? | ? |
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 Arkani-Hamed Hamed et alhep-th/0601001