Past Talks

Past events:

Justin Kulp (10.05.24): Twisted Tools for (Untwisted) Quantum Field Theory

Futoshi Yagi (03.05.24): O7-plane, freezing, and BPS jumping

Vishnu Jejjala (26.04.24): Precision String Phenomenology

Matteo Sacchi (19.04.24): Anomalies, generalized symmetries, and compactifications

T. Daniel Brennan (12.04.24): The Callan Rubakov Effect

Ben Webster (22.03.24): Twisted traces and symplectic singularities

William Harding (15.03.24): Chern-Simons-Trinion Theories: SUSY Enhancement, One-form Symmetries and 't Hooft Anomalies

Simone Rota (08.03.24): Discrete gauging in 4d exceptional S-fold SCFTs

Hans-Christian Herbig (01.03.24): Poisson differential spaces, largeness, Hilbert series

Max Hübner (23.02.24): SymTrees and Symmetries

Marcus Sperling (16.02.24): Decay and Fission of Magnetic Quivers (2)

Antoine Bourget (16.02.24): Quiver Fission and Decay (1)

Sebastián Franco (09.02.24): 4d Crystal Melting, Toric Calabi-Yau 4-Folds and Brane Brick Models

Christopher Couzens (02.02.24): The holographic duals of Argyres—Douglas theories

Mario de Marco (26.01.24): 5d Conformal Matter

Yi-Nan Wang (19.01.24): 3d N=2 from M-theory on CY4 and IIB brane box

Palash Singh (12.01.24): Simplifying the Type A Argyres-Douglas Landscape

Emily Nardoni (15.12.23): Duality of Adjoint SQCD from Argyres-Douglas Theories

Andrea Boido (08.12.23): Matrix models from black hole geometries

Francesco Mignosa (01.12.23): Complete prepotentials of 5d higher-rank theories

Justin Hilburn (24.11.23): 2-Categorical 3D Mirror Symmetry and Symplectic Duality

Oleg Chalykh (17.11.23): Complex crystallographic Calogero—Moser systems as Seiberg—Witten integrable systems

Riccardo Comi (10.11.23): Mirror dualities with four supercharges

Guhesh Kumaran (03.11.23): SU(n) hyper-Kähler quotients of Coulomb branches of 3d N=4 quiver gauge theories

Evyatar Sabag (27.10.23): Geometric engineering 4d N=1 theories from M-theory

Christian Copetti (20.10.23): Duality preserving RG flows in 4d SUSY theories

Andrea Ferrari (13.10.23): Free field realisations of boundary vertex algebras of A-twisted N=4 abelian gauge theories and their relations to Higgs and Coulomb branches

Kaiwen Sun (06.10.23): On intermediate Lie algebra E_{7+1/2}

Christoph Uhlemann (07.07.23): 3d defects in 5d SCFTs & F-maximisation

Muyang Liu & Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann (23.06.23): Heterotic strings on ALE spaces revival (part 2)

Michele Del Zotto & Marco Fazzi (16.06.23): Heterotic strings on ALE spaces revival (part 1)

Federico Carta (09.06.23): Non-invertible Symmetries in Argyres-Douglas Theories

Monica Jinwoo Kang (12.05.23): Emergent N=4 SUSY from N=1

Sebastián Franco (04.05.23): Twin Quivers, Polytope Mutations and Quivers for GTPs

Simone Rota (21.04.23): A recipe for genuine lines: 1-form symmetries in N=3 S-folds

Sebastian Rauch (07.04.23): Symmetries & Structures of N=3 S-folds

Shlomo Razamat (24.03.23): Star shaped quivers in 4d

Mathew Bullimore (17.03.23): Moduli Stacks in 3d N=4

Osama Khlaif (10.03.23): Twisted Indices and IR Dualities for 3d N=2 U(N_c)_{k,k+l N_c} Theories

Lakshya Bhardwaj (24.02.23): Discrete Relationship Between Generalized and Mirror Symmetries

Marcus Sperling (17.02.23): 3d Mirror Symmetry with 1-form Symmetries

Antoine Bourget (10.02.23): Generalized Toric Polygons, T-branes and 5d SCFTs

Markus Dierigl (03.02.23): IIB Explored - Bordisms, Duality, and the Swampland

Federico Bonetti (27.02.23): Non-invertible Symmetries, Branes, and Holography

Robert Moscrop (20.01.23): McKay Quivers and Decomposition

Alessandro Mininno (13.01.23): Dynamical consequences of 1-form and 2-group symmetries in Argyres-Douglas theories

Marco Fazzi (09.12.22): Hierarchy of RG flows in 6d (1,0) orbi-instantons

Mohammad Akhond (25.11.22): Mass deformations of long quivers in 3d and 5d

Mitch Weaver (18.11.22): Mixing local and extended operators: a 2d vertex algebra in 4d N=2 SCFTs

Jie Gu (03.11.22): Rational Q-systems and Linear Quiver Gauge Theories

Francesco Mignosa (28.10.22): Non-supersymmetric fixed points in five dimensions from brane webs

Florent Baume (07.10.22): 6d SCFTs, Long Quivers, and (Super-)Spin Chains

Saghar Hosseini (30.09.22): BF theory in Symmetry TFTs

Marcus Sperling (23.09.22): Magnetic quivers and negatively charged branes

Luigi Tizzano (16.09.22): Comments on Continuous Generalized Global Symmetries

Riccardo Argurio (09.09.22): SUSY breaking in branes at singularities (or: The Rise of the Octagon)

Karapet Mkrtchyan (02.09.22): Democratic non-linear (p-form) Electrodynamics

Roberto Valandro (26.08.22): 5d Higgs Branches from Simple Flops and quasi-homogeneous cDV 3-folds

Craig Lawrie (19.08.22): Higgs, Coulomb & Hall-Littlewood

Gabi Zafrir (12.08.22): Non-Invertible Symmetries of N=4 SYM and Twisted Compactification

Raffaele Savelli (05.08.22): Probing 7-branes on Orbifolds

Stefano Cremonesi (29.07.22): Semiclassics of 3d N=2 SCFTs from Holography

Philip Argyres (15.07.22): Dirac pairings and Seiberg-Witten geometries

Lea Bottini (08.07.22): Non-Invertible Symmetries from Outer-Automorphism Gaugings

Iñaki García Etxebarria (01.07.22): On the derivation of symmetry structures

Fabio Apruzzi (24.06.22): Higher Form Symmetries TFTs

Max Hübner (03.06.22): 0/1-Form and 2-Group Symmetries via Boundary Geometries

Jacques Distler (27.05.22): Some Applications of Nilpotent Higgsings

Justin Kaidi (20.05.22): Exceptional Moduli Spaces for Exceptional N=3 Theories

Guillermo Arias Tamargo & Elli Heyes (13.05.22): Machine Learning Brane Webs

Diego Rodriguez-Gomez (06.05.22): Quivers, lattice gauge theories and fractons

Sebastian Franco (22.04.22): 2d (0,1) Gauge Theories, Spin(7) Orientifolds and Triality

Amihay Hanany (01.04.22): Simple Moduli Spaces

Sung-Soo Kim (25.03.22): Gauging Z_N discrete symmetries of 5d SCFTs

Jonathan Heckman (11.03.22): Higher Symmetries of 5d Orbifold SCFTs

Anindya Dey (04.03.22): Unitary 3d Lagrangians for AD theories and an IR duality

Simone Giacomelli (25.02.22): A Journey Through Argyres-Douglas Theories

Sara Pasquetti (18.02.22): Rethinking mirror symmetry as a local duality

Neil Lambert (04.02.22): Non-Abelian Quotient Calabi-Yau's and 5d S-fold SCFT's

Federico Bonetti (28.01.22): Symmetry TFTs from String Theory

Yi-Nan Wang (21.01.22): 5d and 6d SCFTs from C3 orbifolds

Zhenghao Zhong (17.12.21): Dynkin quivers with mixed U & SU gauge groups and their 3d mirrors

Carlos Núñez (10.12.21): Aspects of Gauge-Strings Duality

Ali Zahabi (03.12.21): Mahler Measure for Quiver Symphony

Michele Del Zotto (26.11.21): BPS States & RG Flows

Matteo Bertolini (19.11.21): On fixed points and phase transitions in five dimensions

Julius Grimminger (12.11.21): Hasse Diagram of the Moduli Space of Instantons

Daniel Zhang (05.11.21): 3d N=4 Gauge Theories on an Elliptic Curve

Mario Martone (29.10.21): The Characteristic Dimension of N=2 SCFTs

Ivan Losev (22.10.21): Unipotent representations and symplectic duality Losev Slides

Oren Bergman (15.10.21): Generalized symmetry, duality, and holography of N=4 SYM theory

Sergio Benvenuti (08.10.21): Dualities from Deconfinement

Mario De Marco (01.10.21): Higgs branches of 5d rank-zero theories from geometry

Hans Jockers (24.09.21): Aspects of Quantum K-Theory from BPS Indices

Richárd Rimányi (17.09.21): 3d mirror symmetry for characteristic classes of singularities (slides)

Gabi Zafrir (10.09.21): Compactifying 3d superconformal field theories to 3d

Dan Xie (03.09.21): 3d mirror for Argyres-Douglas theories

Shi Cheng (27.08.21): 3d N=2 brane webs and quivers

Carlo Meneghelli (09.07.21): Free field realizations from the Higgs branch

Lakshya Bhardwaj (02.07.21): 2-Groups and Generalized Symmetriesin 5d & 4d

Amihay Hanany (25.06.21): Status Update on theories with 8 supercharges

Guillermo Arias Tamargo (18.06.21): Hasse Diagrams & Magnetic Quivers of Discretely Gauged Theories

Iñaki García Etxebarria (11.06.21): Deconfinig a class of N=2 SCFTs

Patrick Jefferson (04.06.21): Massless chiral spectra and resolution independent structure in 4D F-theory models

Anindya Dey (28.05.21): Line Defects and 3D N=4 Mirror Symmetry beyond Linear Quivers

Evyatar Sabag (21.05.21): Rank Q E-String on Spheres with Flux

Leonardo Santilli (14.05.21): Phases of five-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories

Dongwook Ghim (07.05.21): 5d BPS quivers and KK towers

Kimyeong Lee (30.04.21): Two Tales of Twisted 6d (2,0) Theories on a Circle

Mathew Bullimore (23.04.21): Towards a mathematical definition of the 3d N=2 superconformal index

Marcus Sperling (16.04.21): Fibre-base duality of 5d KK theories

Mykola Dedushenko (09.04.21): Phase interfaces and quantum groups

Philip Argyres (02.04.21): 2-dimensional Coulomb Branches and automorphisms of genus-2 Riemann surfaces

Behzat Ergun (26.03.21): Distinguishing 4d N=2 SCFTs

Cyril Closset (19.03.21): 5d BPS Quivers on the U-plane

Michael Gutperle (12.03.21): Holographic duals of 5d SCFT and codimension 2 defects

Hirotaka Hayashi (05.03.21): 6d/5d Exceptional Gauge Theories from Web Diagrams

Zhenghao Zhong (26.02.21): Folding and Forking Orthosymplectic Quivers

Noppadol Mekareeya (19.02.21): New Aspects of Argyres-Douglas Theories

Julius Grimminger (12.02.21): Branes, Quivers, and the Affine Grassmannian

Hee-Cheol Kim (05.02.21): Bootstrapping BPS spectra of 5d/6d field theories

Sara Pasquetti (29.01.21): 4d mirror-like dualities

Diego Rodriguez-Gomez (22.01.21): Cats cradle, branewebs and 5d SCFT’s

Fabio Apruzzi (15.01.21): Abelian Symmetries of 6d Theories

Andreas Trautner (11.12.20): Basis Invariants

Antoine Bourget (04.12.20): The Higgs branch of 5d SCFTs: updates and challenges

Antoine Pasternak (27.11.20): Dimers, Orientifolds and Anomalies

Shani Meynet (20.11.20): Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking in Dimer models

Samuel Crew (13.11.20): Factorisation and Vortices in 3d N=4 Quiver Gauge Theories

David Tong (06.11.20): Chrial Fermions

Simone Giacomelli (30.10.20): Anatomy of S-folds

Jiakang Bao (23.10.20): Chiral rings and (K-)stability

Amihay Hanany (16.10.20): Highest Weight Varieties

Salvo Mancani (9.10.20): Reflecting the Infrared: An Unoriented IR Duality?

Kenneth Intriligator (2.10.20): 2-group Global Symmetries and Anomalies in 6d QFTs

Marieke van Beest (25.09.20): (Symplectic) Leaves and (5d Higgs) Branches in the Poly(Gon)esian Tropical Rain Forest

Marcus Sperling (18.09.20): Quantum Curves and Defects

Andrés Collinucci (11.09.20): U(1)'s in 5d and 3d - Higgs branches and geometry

Mohammad Akhond (04.09.20): Taming the orthosymplectic zoo with brane webs

Matteo Sacchi (21.08.20): 3d Mirrors of the circle reduction of twisted A_2N theories of class S

Gabi Zafrir (14.08.20): An N=1 Lagrangian for an N=3 SCFT

Yi-Nan Wang (07.08.20): Quiver and Quiverine from canonical singularity

Zhenghao Zhong (31.07.20): Quivers with both unitary and special unitary gauge nodes

Sung-Soo Kim (24.07.20): Fivebrane webs, Higgs branches and Unitary/OSp quivers

Antoine Bourget (17.07.20): Affine Grassmannian

Nathan Haouzi (10.07.20): Quantization of SW Geometry

Mario Martone (03.07.20): CB Stratification and central charge formulae

Marcus Sperling (26.06.20): 6d N=(1,0) theories and magnetic quivers

Shlomo Razamat (19.06.20): SQCD and pairs of pants

Simone Giacomelli (12.06.20): 4d N=2 S-folds

Julius Grimminger (29.05.20): Hasse diagram of full Moduli space of 3d N=4