2022 Summer School

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst hosted its first summer school on Physical Mathematics of Quantum Field Theory during the week of 1 - 5 August 2022. The aim of the workshop was to introduce young researchers on the boundary between mathematics and physics to recent ideas in classical and quantum field theory using notions from complex geometry and algebraic topology. The target audience of the workshop was advanced graduate students and post-docs, from both mathematics and theoretical physics. 

SPEAKERS:

• Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania) - Supermoduli

• Angela Gibney (University of Pennsylvania) - On Vector Bundles of Conformal Blocks on the Moduli Space of Curves from Representations of Vertex Operator Algebras (lecture notes)

• Natalie Paquette (University of Washington) - Twisted Theories and Koszul Duality

• Du Pei (CMSA at Harvard) - Invariants of Manifolds from 6d QFTs

ORGANIZERS: Chris Elliott, Owen Gwilliam, and Matteo Lotito