QFT and Geometry Seminars

Zoom-webinar series on Quantum Field Theories and Geometry.

List of Seminars:

• April 16, 2020, 4pm UTC, Zohar Komargodski (SCGP), "The High Temperature Limit of Quantum Field Theory"

• April 30, 2020, 4pm UTC, Ken Intriligator (UCSD), "Higher Symmetry and Anomalies in 4d and 6d QFTs"

• May 14, 2020, 4pm UTC, Cumrun Vafa (Harvard), "Cobordism Classes, Baby Universes and the Swampland"

• May 28, 2020, 4pm UTC, Clay Cordova (Chicago), "Line Defect Quantum Numbers and Anomalies"

• June 11, 2020, 4pm UTC, Nathan Seiberg (IAS), "Continuum Quantum Field Theories for Fractons"

• June 25, 2020, 4pm UTC, Atish Dabholkar (ICTP), "Three Avatars of Mock Modularity"

• July 9, 2020, 4pm UTC, Irene Valenzuela (Harvard), "Nothing is certain in string compactifications"

• July 16, 2020, 4pm UTC, Natalie Paquette (Caltech), "Koszul duality in field theory & holography"

• July 23, 2020, 4pm UTC, Abhijit Gadde (TIFR), "Modularity of supersymmetric partition functions"

• August 6, 2020, 4pm UTC, Tudor Dimofte (UCDavis/Edinburgh), "Holomorphic twists and boundary vertex algebras"

• August 20, 2020, 4pm UTC, Nikolay Bobev (Leuven), "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Higher-Derivative Supergravity in AdS_4 Holography"

• September 3, 2020, 4pm UTC, Alba Grassi (SCGP/ETH), "Black Hole Quasinormal Modes and Seiberg-Witten Theory"

• September 17, 2020, 4pm UTC, Gabi Zafrir (Milano), "An N=1 Lagrangian for an N=3 SCFT"

• October 1, 2020, 4pm UTC, Greg Moore (Rutgers), "Cecotti-Vafa Flavored Cones"

• October 15, 2020, 1pm UTC, Hee-Cheol Kim (POSTECH), "3d Topological Phases from M-theory"

• October 29, 2020, 4pm UTC, Fei Yan (Rutgers), "Protected spin characters, link invariants and exact WKB"

• November 12, 2020, 4pm UTC, Emily Nardoni (UCLA), "From SU(N) Seiberg-Witten Theory to Adjoint QCD"

• December 3 and 4, 2020, Mini-Workshop: "Recent Advances in QFT and Geometry"

• December 10, 2020, 12 noon Eastern, Craig Lawrie (UPenn), "4d N=2 SCFTs from 6d (1,0) on T2 and Class S"

• January 14, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Elli Pomoni (Desy), "Type-B Anomalies on the Higgs Branch"

• January 28, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Davide Gaiotto (Perimeter), "Vertex operators and screening charges as gauge-invariant brane intersections in twisted M-theory. "

• February 11, 2021, 10am Eastern, Kazuya Yonekura (Tohoku), "Topological violation of global symmetries in quantum gravity"

• February 25, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Du Pei (Harvard), "On the compactification of 6d theories"

• March 11, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Mario Martone (SCGP), "Geometric constraints on the space of 4d theories"

• March 25, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Dalimil Mazac (IAS), "Sharp Boundaries for the Swampland"

• April 8, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Shamit Kachru (Stanford)

• April 22, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Saebyeok Jeong (Rutgers), "Intersecting defects in gauge theory"

• May 6, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Marcos Marino (Geneva), "Peacock patterns, or how to get integer invariants from perturbative series"

• May 20, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Miguel Montero (Harvard), "Non-invertible global symmetries and completeness of the spectrum"

• June 3, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Michele Del Zotto (Uppsala), "Geometric Engineering and Correspondences"

• June 10, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Edward Witten (IAS), "Black Hole Thermodynamics, Then and Now"

• July 8, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Justin Kaidi (SCGP), "Obstructions to Gapped Boundaries in (2+1)d TQFT"

• August 5, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Mina Aganagic (Berkeley), "Knot Homology from Mirror Symmetry"

• September 2, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Constantin Teleman (Berkeley), "Topological gauge theory in 2 and 3 dimension"

• September 16, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Lakshya Bhardwaj (Oxford), "An Overview of the Recent Developments in 5d SCFTs Using Surface Geometries"

• September 30, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Jerome Gauntlett (Imperial), "Branes Wrapped on Spindles"

• October 14, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Daniel Robbins (Albany), "Decomposition in orbifolds, quantum symmetries, and anomalies"

• October 28, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Noppadol Mekareeya (Milano), "Conformal manifolds and 3d mirror theories"

• November 11, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Tom Rudelius (Berkeley), "Geometric Implications of the Weak Gravity Conjecture"

• December 2, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Markus Dierigl (Munich), "The anomaly that was not meant IIB"

• December 9, 2021, 12 noon Eastern, Alberto Zaffaroni (Milano), "Large N factorization and holography"

• January 20, 2022, 11am Eastern, Miranda Cheng (Amsterdam), "3d Manifolds, Log VOAs and Quantum Modular Forms"

• February 24, 2022, 12 noon Eastern, Mariana Grana (Saclay), "The tadpole problem"

• March 10, 2022, 12 noon Eastern, Eric Perlmutter (Saclay), "Harnessing S-Duality in N=4 SYM & Supergravity as SL(2,Z)-Averaged Strings"

• March 31, 2022, 12 noon Eastern, Simeon Hellerman (KIPMU), "Precision Correlators at Large R-Charge"

• April 21, 2022, 12 noon Eastern, Thomas Grimm (Utrecht), "Tame geometry in QFTs and String Theory"

• June 2, 2022, 12 noon Eastern, Shu-Heng Shao (Stony Brook), "Non-invertible Global Symmetries in the Standard Model"

• June 16, 2022, 12 noon Eastern, Michela Petrini (Paris), "The supergravity duals of deformed N=1 SCFT’s"

• June 30, 2022, 12 noon Eastern, Philip Argyres (Cincinatti), "Vertex algebra of extended operators in 4d N=2 SCFTs"

• October 6, 2022, 12 noon Eastern, Sheldon Katz (UIUC), "Topological String Partition Function on Noncommutative Resolutions"

• October 20, 2022, 12 noon Eastern, Boris Pioline (Paris), "BPS dendroscopy on local P^2"

Organizers:

• Ibou Bah (Johns Hopkins)

• Jonathan Heckman (UPenn)

• Ken Intriligator (UCSD)

• Sara Pasquetti (Milano Bicocca)

• Shlomo Razamat (Technion)

• Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford)

• Alessandro Tomasiello (Milano Bicocca)