An online summer school on QFT and Geometry. In coordination with the "QFT and Geometry Seminar Series".
The school is aimed at advanced PhD students and postdocs and will be held via Zoom.
Lectures will be recorded and broadcast via the QFT and Geometry Youtube channel.
Format: 3 x 1.5h lectures + discussions for each of the four topics.
Gong show and "postersession" via breakout rooms in Zoom.
Deadline for gong show/poster session applications: July 9, 2020
Speakers:
Fabio Apruzzi (Oxford) "Geometric Engineering and Holography of 6d and 5d Superconformal Field Theories"
Kantaro Ohmori (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics) "Topological phases and Anomalies "
Irene Valenzuela (Harvard) "The Swampland Program in String Compactifications"
Yifan Wang (Harvard) "Aspects of Superconformal field theories in 4d, 5d, and 6d"
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)
For questions: contact one of the organizers or email qftandgeometryseminar@gmail.com