Speaker
Joerg Teschner
(DESY)
Description
In joint work with I. Coman and E. Pomoni we had recently proposed a definition of the topological string
partition functions for the local Calabi-Yau manifolds used in
the geometric engineering of N=2, d=4 class S field theories.
The main goal of my talk will be to review this proposal, and
to explain how the exact WKB method provides a crucial
ingredient. We thereby arrive at a fully non-perturbative
construction of the partition functions from the classical
curves describing the relevant B-model backgrounds.
