Special Lecture Series

Anomalies and supersymmetry

By Marika Taylor (U Southampton) 

Venue: FB 382, IIT Kanpur. 

Dates: 19. 11. 2019 to 21.11.2019 [3 pm to 4:30 pm]


Lecture 1: A general introduction to anomalies, starting from the chiral anomaly and moving on exploring anomalies in conformal and supersymmetric theories

Lecture 2: Exploration of how quantum field theories can be realised holographically, in particular discussing how partition functions are calculated using holographic renormalisation and how quantum field theory anomalies are seen within holography. 

Lecture 3: A discussion of new anomalies in supersymmetric conformal field theories in four dimensions and their potential implications. 


Here are slides for interested readers. Slides related to talks 1 and 2. Slides for final talk.

Asymptotic Symmetries in Gravity

By Daniel Grumiller (TU Wien) 

Venue: FB 382, IIT Kanpur. 

Dates: 27. 10. 2017 to 02.11.2017. [3 pm to 4:30 pm unless otherwise stated]

ABSTRACT: The overall goal is to provide an introduction to asymptotic symmetries, in gravity and gravity-like theories, with a particular emphasis on holographic applications.

Lecture 1 (27/10): Flat space limit of general relativity is not special relativity - introduction to asymptotic symmetries and how to analyze them.

Lecture 2 (28/10): Brown-Henneaux as precursor of AdS3/CFT2 - asymptotic symmetries in Anti-de Sitter space.

Lecture 3 (30/10): [Lecture at 2:30 pm to 4 pm.] More AdS3. Canonical analysis. 

Lecture 4 (31/10): Towards flat space holography - asymptotic symmetries in flat space. 

Lecture 5 (1/11): Menagerie of recent research avenues - higher spins, generalized AdS/flat space and SYK-like boundary conditions, non-AdS holography. Near horizon symmetries - soft hair, fluff and new black hole entropy formulas.

Lecture 6 (2/11): Discussions? 

References: Below are two general references which should be very useful for the context of these lectures.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09871

https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02733

This is a note on constrained Hamiltonian systems which contains details of the analysis for Electrodynamics:

http://www.fysik.su.se/~ingemar/Nr13.pdf 

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