Seminar/Colloquium Archive

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Benjamin Sibley (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Title:	Compactifcations of Hermitian-Yang-Mills moduli space and the Yang-Mills flow on projective manifolds
Date:	Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Meng-Chwan Tan (National Singapore University)
Title:	Unifying Lattice Models, Links and Quantum Geometric Langlands via Branes in String Theory
Date:	Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2406.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Soheyla Feyzbakhsh (Imperial College London)
Title:	Curves on K3 surfaces
Date:	Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Chris Brav (HSE, Moscow)
Title:	Revisiting the Feigin-Tsygan isomorphism
Date:	Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Vivek Shende (UC Berkeley)
Title:	Skeins on Branes
Date:	Mon, Dec 09, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Jaroslav Trnka (University of California, Davis)
Title:	Deep Into the Amplituhedron
Date:	Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 15:30 - 16:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2454.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Anton Zeitlin (Louisiana State University)
Title:	The Bethe Ansatz from Geometry
Date:	Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yasuyuki Hatsuda (Rikkyo University)
Title:	A new approach to black hole quasinormal modes
Date:	Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2394.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Hidenori Fukaya (Osaka University)
Title:	A physicist-friendly reformulation of the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index
Date:	Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 11:15 - 12:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2403.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Boris Tsygan (Northwestern U)
Title:	Microlocal invariants of symplectic manifolds.
Date:	Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ying Xie (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Title:	Categorical Plucker formula and homological projective duality
Date:	Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Gregory Sankaran (U of Bath)
Title:	Topology of cylindrical algebraic decomposition
Date:	Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Manuel Kramer (KU Leuven)
Title:	The semiclassical approximation to quantum gravity and its relation to cosmological observations
Date:	Tue, Nov 05, 2019, 15:30 - 16:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2370.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Stephen Angus ( Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ewha Woman's University)
Title:	O(D,D) completion of the Friedmann equations
Date:	Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2430.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Rodrigo Alonso (IPMU)
Title:	On resonances, amplitudes and the UV completion of gravity
Date:	Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Balcony B
Related File:	2436.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tudor Dimofte (UC Davis)
Title:	Categories of line operators in 3D N=4 theories
Date:	Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Dmitrii Galakhov (IPMU)
Title:	Knot invariants from A-branes
Date:	Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Thorsten Schimannek (University of Vienna)
Title:	Quantum geometry of genus one fibered Calabi-Yau 3-folds
Date:	Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2377.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Lakshya Bhardwaj (Harvard University)
Title:	Geometry and 5d physics
Date:	Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 15:30 - 16:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	David Evans (Cardiff U)
Title:	Reconstruction and the search for the exotic in Conformal Field Theory
Date:	Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2374.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tomoyuki Arakawa (RIMS, Kyoto)
Title:	4D/2D duality and representation theory
Date:	Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Stefano Andriolo (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Title:	A Tower Weak Gravity Conjecture form Infrared Consistency
Date:	Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 15:30 - 16:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2397.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Motohico Mulase (UC Davis)
Title:	Gaiotto's Lagrangian correspondence between Hitchin and de Rham moduli spaces
Date:	Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yasuaki Gyoda (Nagoya University)
Title:	F-matrices in cluster algebras
Date:	Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	2375.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Akikazu Hashimoto
Title:	TT-bar deformation and its generalization from string theory
Date:	Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2379.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Timothy Logvinenko (Cardiff U)
Title:	P^n-functors and beyond
Date:	Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kantaro Ohmori (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study)
Title:	On connected components of the space of QFTs
Date:	Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room B
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kim Taesu (IBS Center for Geometry and Physics)
Title:	Homotopy coherent diagrams and Morse theory
Date:	Tue, Aug 27, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Alexander Voronov (U of Minnesota)
Title:	Mysterious Duality
Date:	Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Dulip Piyaratne (University of Arizona)
Title:	Some Bridgeland stability conditions in the boundary of the geometric chamber on smooth quintic threefolds
Date:	Tue, Jul 30, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Andreas Gross (Colorado State U.)
Title:	Moduli spaces of tropical curves and tropical psi classes
Date:	Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yota Shamoto (IPMU)
Title:	Irregular Vertex Algebras
Date:	Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Alexander Schmitt(Freie Universität Berlin)
Title:	Relative geometric invariant theory
Date:	Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2361.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Andrea D'Agnolo (University of Padova)
Title:	Enhanced nearby and vanishing cycles
Date:	Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Anton Mellit (University of Vienna)
Title:	Regularity of Hausel-Letellier-Rodriguez-Villegas kernels
Date:	Tue, Jul 02, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sam Gunningham (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Title:	Quantizing the group of regular centralizers
Date:	Tue, Jul 02, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Blackboard:	(Blackboard talk)

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Aninda Sinha (Indian Institute of Science)
Title:	Conformal bootstrap: A biased review
Date:	Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2328.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ahmadullah Zahed (Indian Institute of Science)
Title:	Positive geometry in the diagonal limit of the conformal bootstrap
Date:	Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	2327.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Rune Haugseng (IBS, Korea)
Title:	The Universal Property of Bispans
Date:	Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sjoerd Beentjes (U of Edinburgh)
Title:	A proof of the Donaldson-Thomas crepant resolution conjecture
Date:	Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Iordan Ganev (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Title:	Quantum multiplicative quiver varieties at a root of unity
Date:	Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2278.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Andrei Negut (MIT)
Title:	Two types of shuffle algebras associated to gl_n^^
Date:	Tue, Jun 04, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ying-Hsuan Lin (Caltech)
Title:	Anomaly and Modular Bootstrap
Date:	Wed, May 29, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2314.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Meer Ashwinkumar (National University of Singapore)
Title:	Some Results on 4d Chern-Simons Theory: String Theory Realization, and Holography
Date:	Mon, May 27, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2324.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Lev Sukhanov (HSE Moscow)
Title:	Morse theory for a pair of commuting vector fields
Date:	Thu, May 23, 2019, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Finn Larsen
Title:	An Attractor Mechanism for AdS(2) Black Holes
Date:	Wed, May 22, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	2309.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ben Heidenreich (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Title:	The Weak Gravity Conjecture and Repulsive Forces
Date:	Tue, May 21, 2019, 15:30 - 16:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Joonho Kim (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
Title:	Cardy Formula of 4d N=1 SCFT
Date:	Mon, May 20, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2299.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Valerio Toledano Laredo (Northeastern University)
Title:	Coxeter categories, the Casimir connection and quantum Weyl groups
Date:	Tue, May 14, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Amihay Hanany (Imperial College University)
Title:	Magnetic Quivers
Date:	Tue, May 14, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Masaki Tezuka
Title:	Characterization of quantum chaos using the quantum Lyapunov spectrum and two-point functions: the case of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model as an example
Date:	Mon, May 13, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	2330.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Omar Kidwai (University of Toronto)
Title:	Higher length-twist coordinates for character varieties
Date:	Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Pietro Longhi
Title:	Exponential networks and 5d BPS spectra
Date:	Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 15:30 - 16:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Alberto Zaffaroni (INFN)
Title:	A tale of four extremizations
Date:	Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2194.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ryo Fujita (Kyoto University)
Title:	Coherent IC-sheaves on type $A_n$ affine Grassmannians and dual canonical basis of affine type $A_1$
Date:	Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Harold Williams (UC Davis)
Title:	Canonical Bases for Coulomb Branches of 4d N=2 Gauge Theories
Date:	Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Christoph Uhlemann (UCLA)
Title:	Recent developments in AdS_6/CFT_5
Date:	Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	2302.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Marcos Crichigno (University of Amsterdam)
Title:	5d partition functions with A twist and holography
Date:	Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 15:30 - 16:15
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2266.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Rene Meyer (Universität Würzburg)
Title:	Hydrodynamics & Black Holes in Anti de Sitter Space-time
Date:	Tue, Apr 02, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2267.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Marco Gualitieri (University of Toronto)
Title:	The potential of generalized Kahler geometry
Date:	Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2295.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kazuya Yonekura (Tohoku University)
Title:	Black hole information and Reeh-Schlieder theorem
Date:	Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 15:30 - 16:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2258.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kiril Hristov (Institute for Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Research (INRNE) at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS))
Title:	The holographic dual of the Omega-background
Date:	Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	David Carchedi (George Mason University)
Title:	What are derived manifolds?
Date:	Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Benoit Vicedo (The University of York)
Title:	Integrable coupled sigma-models
Date:	Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Alessandra Gnecchi (CERN)
Title:	Holographic RG flows from 7D gauged Supergravity
Date:	Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 13:30 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Dongmin Gang (Seoul National University )
Title:	Black hole entropy, hyperbolic 3-manifold and anlaytic torsion
Date:	Tue, Mar 05, 2019, 15:30 - 16:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2245.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Michal Kapustka (Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw)
Title:	Equivalent Calabi-Yau manifolds via GLSM
Date:	Tue, Mar 05, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kanato Goto(University of Tokyo)
Title:	Holographic Complexity in the Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity
Date:	Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2263.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Mark Gross (University of Cambridge)
Title:	Intrinsic Mirror Symmetry
Date:	Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	Blacboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Hiro Tanaka (MSRI Berkeley)
Title:	A stack of broken lines, associativity, and Morse theory of a point
Date:	Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tamas Hausel (IST Austria)
Title:	Representations of quivers over Frobenius algebras
Date:	Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2228.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Pablo Soler (Heidelberg University)
Title:	Challenges for cosmology in the swampland era
Date:	Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2223.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Changjian Su (U of Toronto)
Title:	Motivic Chern classes and Iwahori invariants of principal series
Date:	Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 10:30 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Agnieszka Bodzenta (U of Warsaw)
Title:	Highest weight categories and exact categories
Date:	Fri, Feb 01, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Balcony A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Qingtao Chen (NYU, Abu Dhabi)
Title:	Recent progress of Volume Conjectures
Date:	Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Balcony A
Related File:	2244.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kilian Mayer (U Utrecht)
Title:	Black hole entropy and (0,4) SCFTs from F-theory
Date:	Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 13:15 - 14:45
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2177.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Luis Ibanez (UAM)
Title:	The Swampland Conjectures and some Physics Implications
Date:	Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2226.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Mauro Porta (University of Strasbourg)
Title:	The derived Riemann-Hilbert correspondence
Date:	Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Patrick Jefferson (Harvard U)
Title:	Classifying 5d SCFTs using Calabi-Yau 3-folds
Date:	Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2162.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Domenico Orlando (INFN)
Title:	Compensating strong coupling with large charge - Part II
Date:	Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Remarks:	Blackboard talk

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Susanne Reffert (U Bern)
Title:	Compensating strong coupling with large charge - Part I
Date:	Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2166.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Chi-Ming Chang (UCDavis)
Title:	Melonic supertensor models
Date:	Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2182.pdf