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\newcommand{\toggle}[2]{#2} % Theorem Environments \theoremstyle{plain} \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem} \newtheorem{lemma}{Lemma} \newtheorem{prop}{Proposition} \newtheorem{cor}{Corollary} \newtheorem*{utheorem}{Theorem} \newtheorem*{ulemma}{Lemma} \newtheorem*{uprop}{Proposition} \newtheorem*{ucor}{Corollary} \theoremstyle{definition} \newtheorem{defn}{Definition} \newtheorem{example}{Example} \newtheorem*{udefn}{Definition} \newtheorem*{uexample}{Example} \theoremstyle{remark} \newtheorem{remark}{Remark} \newtheorem{note}{Note} \newtheorem*{uremark}{Remark} \newtheorem*{unote}{Note} %------------------------------------------------------------------- \begin{document} %------------------------------------------------------------------- \section*{Spring 2015} 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. \hypertarget{spring_2015_schedule}{}\subsection*{{Spring 2015 Schedule}}\label{spring_2015_schedule} \begin{tabular}{r|l|l} Date&Speaker&Topic\\ \hline 1/21&&Organizational Meeting\\ 1/28&Tudor Dimofte&A three-dimensional bridge between physics and mathematics\\ 2/4&Jacques Distler&Super Riemann Surfaces\\ 2/11&Jacques Distler&Super Riemann Surfaces, II\\ 2/18&Bei Jia&Superstring Perturbation Theory\\ 2/25&Harold Williams&CY3 categories associated to SL\_2 Hitchin systems\\ 3/4&Andrew Neitzke&Chern-Simons and abelianization\\ 3/11&Dan Xie&Topology of RG and Morse theory\\ 3/25&Fei Yan&Elliptic genera of 2d N=2 gauge theories (1308.4896)\\ 4/1&Andy Trimm&6d conformal matter (1407.6359)\\ 4/8&Yinan Zhu&6d SCFT\\ 4/15&Tom Mainiero + Richard Hughes&\\ 4/22&Tom Mainiero + Richard Hughes&\\ 4/29&Andrew Neitzke + Harold Williams&\\ 5/6&Andrew Neitzke + Harold Williams&\\ \end{tabular} \hypertarget{references}{}\subsubsection*{{References}}\label{references} \hypertarget{the_20_theory_reduced_to_3_dimensions}{}\paragraph*{{The (2,0) theory reduced to 3 dimensions}}\label{the_20_theory_reduced_to_3_dimensions} \begin{itemize}% \item Dimofte, Gaiotto, Gukov, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4389}{Gauge Theories Labelled by 3-Manifolds} \item Cecotti, Cordova, Vafa, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2115}{Braids, Walls and Mirrors} \end{itemize} \hypertarget{4d_}{}\paragraph*{{4D $\mathcal{N}=2$}}\label{4d_} \begin{itemize}% \item N. Nekrasov and V. Pestun, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2240}{Seiberg-Witten geometry of four dimensional N=2 quiver gauge theories} \item Nekrasov, Pestun and Shatashvili, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6689}{Quantum geometry and quiver gauge theories} \end{itemize} \hypertarget{extended_operators_in_topological_field_theory}{}\paragraph*{{Extended operators in topological field theory}}\label{extended_operators_in_topological_field_theory} \begin{itemize}% \item Aharony, Seiberg and Tachikawa, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0318}{Reading between the lines of four-dimensional gauge theories} \item Gukov and Kapustin, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4793}{Topological Quantum Field Theory, Nonlocal Operators, and Gapped Phases of Gauge Theories} \item Seiberg and Kapustin, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0740}{Coupling a QFT to a TQFT and Duality} \end{itemize} \hypertarget{generalities_on_field_theory}{}\paragraph*{{Generalities on field theory}}\label{generalities_on_field_theory} \begin{itemize}% \item Abdesselam, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4897}{QFT, RG, and all that, for mathematicians, in eleven pages} \item Cattaneo, Mnev, Reshetikhin, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2490}{Semiclassical quantization of classical field theories} \item Bilal, Ferrari, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1689}{Multi-Loop Zeta Function Regularization and Spectral Cutoff in Curved Spacetime} \end{itemize} \hypertarget{resurgence_tqfts}{}\paragraph*{{Resurgence, TQFTs}}\label{resurgence_tqfts} \begin{itemize}% \item R. Couso-Santamaría, J. Edelstein, R. Schiappa, M. Vonk, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1407.4821}{Resurgent Transseries and the Holomorphic Anomaly: Nonperturbative Closed Strings in Local $\mathbb{CP}^2$} \item P. Argyres and M. Unsal, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1206.1890}{The semi-classical expansion and resurgence in gauge theories: new perturbative, instanton, bion, and renormalon effects} \end{itemize} \hypertarget{_scfts_in_6_dimensions}{}\paragraph*{{$(1,0)$ SCFTs in 6 Dimensions}}\label{_scfts_in_6_dimensions} \begin{itemize}% \item J. Heckman, D. Morrison, C. Vafa, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1312.5746}{On the Classification of 6D SCFTs and Generalized ADE Orbifolds} \item M. Del Zotto, J. Heckman, A. Tomasiello, C. Vafa, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1407.6359}{6d Conformal Matter} \end{itemize} \hypertarget{costellostyle_qft}{}\paragraph*{{Costello-style QFT}}\label{costellostyle_qft} \begin{itemize}% \item Costello and Scheimbauer, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2676}{Lectures on mathematical aspects of (twisted) supersymmetric gauge theories} \item T. Nguyen, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1408.4466}{Quantization of the Nonlinear Sigma Model Revisited} \end{itemize} \hypertarget{miscellany}{}\paragraph*{{Miscellany}}\label{miscellany} \begin{itemize}% \item K. Ohmori and Y. Tachikawa, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1406.4167}{Physics at the entangling surface} \item K. Maruyoshi, Y. Tachikawa, W. Yan, K. Yonekura, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1308.0064}{Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking with T\_N Theory} \item S. Ashok, F. Cachazo, E. Dell'Aquila, \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611082}{Children…™s Drawings From Seiberg-Witten Curves} \end{itemize} \hypertarget{old_classics}{}\paragraph*{{Old classics}}\label{old_classics} \begin{itemize}% \item E. Witten, Supersymmetry and Morse theory \item Mirzakhani on Witten conjecture \end{itemize} \end{document}