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. {:r: scope="row"} Date|Speaker|Topic| ---:|:------|:---- {:r}1/28 |Jacob Lurie|Discussion with Lurie about ETQFT and the Cobordism Hypothesis {:r}2/4 |Distler|Recursion relations for scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity {:r}2/11 |Jaume Gomis|M2 branes {:r}2/18 |??|Factorization {:r}2/25 |Eric Sharpe| ? {:r}3/4 |Sean Keel|SYZ${}^\vee$ for K3 (part I) {:r}3/11 |Sean Keel|SYZ${}^\vee$ for K3 (part II) {:r}3/25 |Anindya Dey|Modular differential equations and null vectors {:r}4/1 |Xi Yin | ? {:r}4/8 |Graeme Segal| ? {:r}4/15 |Graeme Segal| ? {:r}4/22 | ? | ? {:r}4/29 | ? | ? {:r}5/6 | ? | ? {: class="plaintable" style="text-align:center;" summary="Spring Schedule"} ###References### ####Chiral or Factorization Algebras#### * Frenkel/Ben-Zvi * Lurie * Beilinson/Drinfeld * etc ... ####Etc####