Geometry and String Theory
This is the homepage for the UT Geometry and String Theory Seminar. At the organizational meeting we will flesh out the details of our plans for the semester. Below are some suggestions to get us started.
Fall 2016 Schedule
Date Speaker Topic 8/24 Organizational Meeting 8/31 Freed Field Theory, Symmetries, and Representations of Bordism 9/7 Freed Deformation classes of invertible field theories 9/14 Bei Topological Phases of Matter 9/21 Bei Topological Phases of Matter 9/28 Arun Freedman-Hastings 10/5 Simpson Spectral networks and harmonic maps 10/19 Neitzke Generalized Global Symmetries 10/26 Ben Zvi Costello I 11/2 Ben Zvi Costello II 11/9 Val Gapped Boundary Phases I 11/16 Val Gapped Boundary Phases II 11/30 Jacques Seiberg, Senthil, Wang, Witten
References
Integrable Lattice Models and 4D “Chern-Simons”
Topological Phases of Matter
Bhardwaj, Gaiotto, Kapustin, State sum constructions of spin-TFTs and string net constructions of fermionic phases of matter
Freed, Hopkins, Reflection positivity and invertible topological phases
Gaiotto, Kapustin, Spin TQFTs and fermionic phases of matter
Freedman, Hastings, Double semions in arbitrary dimensions
Kapustin, Turzillo, You, Topological field theory and matrix product states
Read, Compactly-supported Wannier functions and algebraic K-theory
Seiberg, Senthil, Wang, Witten, A Duality Web in 2+1 Dimensions and Condensed Matter Physics
Seiberg, Witten, Gapped Boundary Phases of Topological Insulators via Weak Coupling
Vafa, Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and M-Theory
Witten, Three Lectures On Topological Phases Of Matter
Witten, Fermion path integrals and topological phases
Symmetry and Anomalies in QFT