Program
Talks will take place in the Mathematical Institute, Mezzanine level, Lecture Room L2.
- Ibou Bah (John Hopkins): Anomalies of CFTs and String Theory
- Mirjam Cvetic (UPenn): F-theory Standard Models: Further Analysis
- Michele del Zotto (Durham): Trinions and Geometry
- Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial College): GK geometry, c-extremization and black hole entropy
- Thomas Grimm (Utrecht): Asymptotic flux complactifications and Hodge theory
- Sergei Gukov (Caltech): 2d Phase Transitions from Geometry
- Jim Halverson (Northeastern): F-theory on Singular Spaces
- Jonathan Heckman (UPenn): T-Branes, String Junctions, and 6d SCFTs
- Nigel Hitchin (Oxford): BAA branes and their mirrors
- Patrick Jefferson (MIT): Twisted circle compactifications of 6d (1,0) SCFTs
- Sheldon Katz (UIUC): Moduli of F-theory from IIB
- Albrecht Klemm (Bonn): Topological String on elliptic CY 3-folds with N-sections and Jacobi forms
- Craig Lawrie (UPenn): 5d SCFTS: Graphs, Geometry, and Gauge Theory
- Fernando Marchesano (Madrid): Three-forms and Geometry
- Dave Morrison (UCSB): High electric charges in M-theory from quiver varieties
- Sara Pasquetti (Milano Bicocca): Free field correlators, kernel functions and rank Q E-string on a torus
- Raffaele Savelli (Rome): The Geometry of SUSY Enhancement
- Washington Taylor (MIT): Tuning SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1)/Z_6 in F-theory
- Alessandro Tomasiello (Milano Bicocca): Holography, Matrix Factorizations and K-stability
- Cumrun Vafa (Harvard): On the uniqueness of quantum gravity
- Timo Weigand (CERN/Mainz): F-theory with Strings Attached
- Max Zimet (Stanford): K3 metrics from little string theory
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