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Seminar/Colloquium Archive

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: David Klompenhouwer (University of Padova)
Title: TBA more
Date: Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Dam Son (University of Chicago)
Title: TBA more
Date: Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Ben Davison (University of Edinburgh)
Title: TBA more
Date: Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Remarks: This seminar serves as the introductory talk in a four-lecture series on the same topic.
Prof. Ben Davison will give three additional lectures at 13:30 at the following venues.

Seminar Room A on March 30 (Mon)
Seminar Room B on April 1 (Wed)
Seminar Room B on April 2 (Thu)
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: José Matos (University of Porto)
Title: Effective strings and particles interacting in 3D: the Ising model more
Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Vittorio Larotonda (U Bologna)
Title: A journey through the non-supersymmetric landscape more
Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Federico Ambrosino (Perimeter Institute)
Title: Perturbed 2d CFT: flows and conserved charges more
Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Place: Lecture Hall
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Tianyu Yuan (Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China)
Title: Morse theory on symmetric products and quantized nonabelianization more
Date: Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Francesco Sala (University of Pisa)
Title: Cohomological Hall algebras of 1-dimensional sheaves and Yangians over the Bridgeland's space of stability conditions more
Date: Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Brandon Rayhaun (Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS))
Title: Generalized symmetries of relative QFTs and chiral algebras more
Date: Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Balcony A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Matthias Gaberdiel (ETHZ)
Title: Recent advances in AdS3/CFT2 more
Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 3498.pdf
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Le Minh Ha (Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM))
Title: Modular Invariant Theory for Polynomial Rings mod Frobenius Powers more
Date: Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room B
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Wei Li (ITP-CAS)
Title: AdS3 Quantum Gravity and Finite N Expansions more
Date: Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Yasuaki Gyoda (Nagoya University)
Title: Generalized discrete Markov spectra more
Date: Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room B
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Lukas Nakamura (IMJ-PRG)
Title: Gromov-Witten invariants of the Hopf link conormal more
Date: Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Seok Kim (Seoul National University)
Title: Hairy black holes in AdS more
Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Yuji Odaka (Kyoto University)
Title: Algebraic aspects of asymptotics of Calabi-Yau/hyperKahler metrics more
Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Seminar Room A
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Reiko Toriumi (OIST)
Title: Invitation to Random Tensor Models: from random geometry, enumeration of tensor invariants, to characteristic polynomials more
Date: Thu, Jan 08, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room B
MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)
Speaker: Susanne Reffert (University of Bern)
Title: The large charge expansion for relativistic and non-relativistic physics more
Date: Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Place: Seminar Room A