Geometry and String Theory
Fall 2009 (changes)

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Fall 2009 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Topic
9/2	Dan Freed	K-Theory and orientifolds I
9/9	Dan Freed	K-Theory and orientifolds II
9/16	Aswin Balasubramanian	Hyperbolic monopoles and AdS/CFT
9/23	Jacques Distler	The S-Matrix for $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM and Twistor Space, I
9/30	Jacques Distler	The S-Matrix for $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM and Twistor Space, II
10/7	Oscar Chacaltana	A Dual Theory for the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM S-matrix, Twistors and Grassmannians, I
10/14	Oscar Chacaltana	A Dual Theory for the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM S-matrix, Twistors and Grassmannians, II
10/21	Oscar Chacaltana	A Dual Theory for the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM S-matrix, Twistors and Grassmannians, III
10/28	??	??

References

K-Theory and orientifolds

Distler, Freed and Moore, Orientifold Precis (arXiv:0906.0795)

Hyperbolic monopoles

M. Atiyah, Magnetic monopoles in hyperbolic spaces. (Bombay 1984, Proceedings)
A. Chakrabarti, Construction Of Hyperbolic Monopoles, J.Math.Phys.27:340,1986.

S-matrix for $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM in twistor space

Arkani-Hamed, Cachazo and Cheung, The Grassmannian Origin Of Dual Superconformal Invariance (arXiv:0909.0483)
Arkani-Hamed, Cachazo, Cheung and Kaplan, A duality for the S-matrix (arXiv:0907.5418)
Arkani-Hamed, Cachazo, Cheung and Kaplan, The S-matrix in twistor space (arXiv:0903.2110)
Arkani-Hamed, Cachazo and Kaplan, What is the Simplest Quantum Field Theory? (arXiv:0808.1446)

Revised on January 19, 2010 16:26:38 by Jacques Distler (128.83.114.63)