Geometry and String Theory
Fall 2010

Fall 2010 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Topic
8/25	The Organizers	Organizational Meeting
9/1	Jacques	“Tinkertoys” for $N=2$ theories
9/8	Oscar	Scattering amplitudes in $N=4$ SYM
9/15	Aswin	Hirota equations and Quantum Integrable Systems
9/22	Wilberth	2D TFT
9/29	Fernando Rodriguez Villegas	The dilogarithm function
10/6	Jacob Bourjaily	The All-Loop S-Matrix of $N=4$ SYM (instructions included)
10/13	Tim Perutz	Khovanov’s link homology theory
10/20	Andy	Frobenius manifolds
10/27	NOBODY	No talk this week
11/3	NOBODY	No talk this week
11/10	Anindya Dey	Localization and 3D Mirror Symmetry
11/17	Anindya Dey	Localization and 3D Mirror Symmetry, continued
12/1	Dan Freed	Quantization and complexification

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Al. B. Zamolodchikov, [On the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations for reflectionless ADE scattering theories], Phys.Lett.B253:391-394, 1991.
F. Gliozzi and R. Tateo, ADE functional dilogarithm identities and integrable models
E. Frenkel and A. Szenes, Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz and Dilogarithm Identities I
B. Keller, The periodicity conjecture for pairs of Dynkin diagrams
W. Nahm, Conformal field theory and torsion elements of the Bloch group
D. Zagier, The dilogarithm function (version 2)
I. Krichever, O.Lipan, P.Wiegmann, A. Zabrodin, Quantum Integrable Systems and Elliptic Solutions of Classical Discrete Nonlinear Equations
A. Zabrodin, Discrete Hirota’s equation in quantum integrable models

Quantum Fields and Strings: A Course for Mathematicians (Deligne et al.)
Mirror Symmetry (Vafa et al.)
Frobenius manifolds, quantum cohomology, and moduli spaces (Manin)
D. Guzzetti, Stokes Matrices and Monodromy of the Quantum Cohomology of Projective Spaces
K. Costello, Topological conformal field theories and Calabi-Yau categories

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