Schedule and Abstracts

Schedule of Talks

The registration/check-in is at Bevier 249. All talks will be in Bevier 180,  and discussion is in Bevier 242. The coffee breaks will be in Bevier Commons. Here is Bevier Hall in google map.

Titles and abstracts

Nora Ganter:

Generalized moonshine and Hecke operators

Theo Johnson-Freyd:

Topological umbral moonshine

Tomer Schlank:

Ambidexterity and topological quantum field theory

Mayuko Yamashita:

Anderson self-duality of topological modular forms and heterotic string theory

Reference and further reading: 

References to Mayuko's lectures are: 

papers with Yuji Tachikawa: 

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13542

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06196

Stolz and Teichner's original articles:

https://math.berkeley.edu/~teichner/Papers/Oxford.pdf

https://math.berkeley.edu/~teichner/Papers/SusySurvey.pdf

Freed and Hopkins' paper on classification of invertible QFTs and anomalies: 

https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06527

Bruner and Rognes' book on Adams spectral sequence of tmf: 

https://www.ams.org/publications/authors/books/postpub/surv-253