QFT and Geometry Seminars
An online seminar series
Zoom-webinar series on Quantum Field Theories and Geometry.
Seminars take place twice a month (fortnightly), Thursdays at 5pm (London), 12noon (Eastern), 9am (Western) (local times).
Seminars are recorded and available on the youtube channel: youtube
Winter Conference 2022 in Aspen: https://sites.google.com/view/geometryqftaspen2022/home
Summer School 2020: https://sites.google.com/view/qftandgeometrysummerschool/home
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"
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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)