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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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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. more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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^^ more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 $A_1$ more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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? more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 13:15 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 2182.pdf