String Math 2020
from
Monday 27 July 2020 (09:00)
to
Friday 31 July 2020 (20:00)
Monday 27 July 2020
13:30
Opening Address
-
Jeff Murugan
(
UCT
)
Opening Address
Jeff Murugan
(
UCT
)
13:30 - 14:00
14:00
Monday 2pm
Monday 2pm
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions
14:00
Continuum Quantum Field Theory for Fractons
-
Shu-Heng Shao
(
IAS
)
14:40
Questions
15:00
W Algebras
-
Thomas Creutzig
(
University of Alberta
)
15:40
Questions
16:00
Supergroup Chern-Simons theory, q-series, and resurgence
-
Pavel Putrov
(
ICTP, Trieste
)
16:40
Questions
17:00
Monday 5pm
Monday 5pm
17:00 - 20:00
Contributions
17:00
Gauging 1-form symmetries in 2d theories
-
Eric Sharpe
(
Virginia Tech
)
17:40
Questions
18:00
3d Mirror Symmetry and HOMFLY Homology
-
Tudor Dimofte
(
UC Davis & Edinburgh
)
18:40
Questions
19:00
Breakaway
Tuesday 28 July 2020
14:00
Tuesday 2pm
Tuesday 2pm
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions
14:00
Associated varieties and 4D/2D correspondence
-
Tomoyuki Arakawa
(
Kyoto University
)
14:40
Questions
15:00
Topological string partition functions from quantum curves
-
Joerg Teschner
(
Desy
)
15:40
Questions
16:00
Quantum modularity of 3-manifold invariants
-
Francesca Ferrari
(
SISSA
)
16:40
Questions
17:00
Tuesday 5pm
Tuesday 5pm
17:00 - 20:00
Contributions
17:00
Universes as Big Data, or, Machine-Learning Mathematical Structures
-
Yang-Hui He
(
Oxford & City, University of London
)
17:40
Questions
18:00
The spectrum on M_{0,4} via Liouville theory
-
Sarah Harrison
(
McGill
)
18:40
Questions
19:00
Breakaway
Wednesday 29 July 2020
14:00
Wednesday 2pm
Wednesday 2pm
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions
14:00
GLSMs, localisation, and the stringy Kahler moduli space
-
Johanna Knapp
(
University of Melbourne
)
14:40
Questions
15:00
On compactifications of 6d relative theories
-
Du Pei
(
Harvard
)
15:40
Questions
16:00
Matter representation and the geography of Lie subalgebras: an extension of the Katz-Vafa method
-
Jonathan Mboyo Esole
(
Northeastern University
)
16:40
Questions
17:00
Wednesday 5pm
Wednesday 5pm
17:00 - 20:00
Contributions
17:00
The secret topological life of shared information
-
Thomas Mainiero
(
Rutgers
)
17:40
Questions
18:00
Twisted Holography & Koszul Duality
-
Natalie Paquette
(
Caltech
)
18:40
Questions
19:00
Breakaway
Thursday 30 July 2020
14:00
Thursday 2pm
Thursday 2pm
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions
14:00
4d Chern-Simons Theory as a 3d Toda Theory, and a 3d-2d Correspondence
-
Meng-Chwan Tan
(
National University of Singapore
)
14:40
Questions
15:00
3d N=2 chiral algebras and dualities
-
Kevin Costello
(
Perimeter
)
15:40
Questions
16:00
Modularity of BPS invariants on Elliptic Fourfolds and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
-
Timo Weigand
(
Heidelberg
)
16:40
Questions
17:00
Thursday 5pm
Thursday 5pm
17:00 - 20:00
Contributions
17:00
Volumes of Supermoduli Spaces
-
Edward Witten
(
IAS
)
17:40
Questions
18:00
Breakaway
19:00
Public Talk (TBA)
-
Robbert Dijkgraaf
(
IAS
)
Friday 31 July 2020
14:00
Friday 2pm
Friday 2pm
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions
14:00
On SCFTs at canonical singularities
-
Cyril Closset
(
Oxford
)
14:40
Questions
15:00
Curve counting and S-duality
-
Soheyla Feyzbakhsh
(
Imperial
)
15:40
Questions
16:00
Protected spin characters, link invariants and spectral networks
-
Andy Neitzke
(
Yale
)
16:40
Questions
17:00
Friday 5pm
Friday 5pm
17:00 - 20:00
Contributions
17:00
Comments on Large Strings/Operators in N=4 SYM
-
Pedro Viera
(
Perimeter
)
17:40
Questions
18:00
Mock modularity and a secondary invariant
-
Theo Johnson-Freyd
(
Perimeter
)
18:40
Questions
19:00
Breakaway