May 29, June 1-2, 2022

Summer STARS Workshop 2022

Weizmann Institute of Science

Sponsored by the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Institute if Mathematics and Computer Science

Speakers:

  • Vladimir Belavin (Ariel University)

  • Michael Finkelberg (Higher School of Economics)

  • Yasmine Fittouhi (University of Haifa)

  • Victor Kac (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • Ivan Motorin (Higher School of Economics, Ben Gurion University)

  • Vera Serganova (UC Berkeley)

  • Alexander Sherman (Ben Gurion University)

  • Ran Tessler (Weizmann Institute of Science)


Schedule

All times in IST=GMT+2.

The talks take place either in Ziskind Building Room 1 (Ziskind 1), Schmidt Auditorium, or on Zoom.

Sunday, May 29

(All talks will take place in Ziskind 1)

12:40-13:00 - Coffee, opening remarks

13:00-14:00 - Victor Kac, "Unitary representations of minimal W-algebras"
14:20-15:20 - Vladimir Belavin, "Dual AdS_3 construction of CFT conformal blocks"
15:30-16:00 - Coffee break
16:00-17:00 - Ran Tessler, "The m=4 Amplituhedron and its BCFW triangulations."
17:00-19:00 - Reception, discussion (hybrid)

(First talk starts at: 3:00 PST/ 5:00 CST/ 6:00 EST/ 12:00 CET)

Wednesday, June 1

14:40-15:00 - Coffee
15:00-16:00 - Yasmine Fittouhi, "Stratifications of singular fibers of Mumford Systems" (Ziskind 1)
16:20-17:20 - Michael Finkelberg, "Gaiotto conjectures for classical supergroups " (Zoom talk)
17:20-17:45 - Coffee break
17:45-18:45 - Ivan Motorin, "Resolution of singularities of the odd nilpotent cone of orthosymplectic Lie superalgebras"; (Ziskind 1)
18:45-20:00 - Reception, discussion

(First talk starts at: 5:00 PST/ 7:00 CST/ 8:00 EST/ 14:00 CET)

Thursday, June 2


11:15-12:15 - Victor Kac, "Exceptional de Rham complexes" (Schmidt Auditorium)
12:30-14:00 - Lunch
14:15-15:15 - Vera Serganova, "On support varieties for algebraic supergroups" (Ziskind 1)
15:30-16:00 - Coffee break
16:15-17:15 - Alexander Sherman, "Two spectral sequences for GL(1|1)-modules" (Ziskind 1)
17:15-18:30 - Coffee

(First talk starts at: 1:15 PST/ 3:15 CST/ 4:15 EST/ 10:15 CET)

All talks will be recorded live:

ZOOM LINK

Meeting ID: 881 8925 8443

Password = order of S_8 (symmetric group on 8 letters)


Organizers: Maria Gorelik (Weizmann Institute of Science) and Alexander Sherman (BGU).

Contact: xandersherm [at] gmail [dot] com.