String Math 2020
from
Monday, July 27, 2020 (9:00 AM)
to
Friday, July 31, 2020 (8:00 PM)
Monday, July 27, 2020
1:30 PM
Opening Address
-
Jeff Murugan
(
UCT
)
Opening Address
Jeff Murugan
(
UCT
)
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Monday 2pm
Monday 2pm
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions
2:00 PM
Continuum Quantum Field Theory for Fractons
-
Shu-Heng Shao
(
IAS
)
2:40 PM
Questions
3:00 PM
W Algebras
-
Thomas Creutzig
(
University of Alberta
)
3:40 PM
Questions
4:00 PM
Supergroup Chern-Simons theory, q-series, and resurgence
-
Pavel Putrov
(
ICTP, Trieste
)
4:40 PM
Questions
5:00 PM
Monday 5pm
Monday 5pm
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions
5:00 PM
Gauging 1-form symmetries in 2d theories
-
Eric Sharpe
(
Virginia Tech
)
5:40 PM
Questions
6:00 PM
3d Mirror Symmetry and HOMFLY Homology
-
Tudor Dimofte
(
UC Davis & Edinburgh
)
6:40 PM
Questions
7:00 PM
Breakaway
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
2:00 PM
Tuesday 2pm
Tuesday 2pm
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions
2:00 PM
Associated varieties and 4D/2D correspondence
-
Tomoyuki Arakawa
(
Kyoto University
)
2:40 PM
Questions
3:00 PM
Topological string partition functions from quantum curves
-
Joerg Teschner
(
Desy
)
3:40 PM
Questions
4:00 PM
Quantum modularity of 3-manifold invariants
-
Francesca Ferrari
(
SISSA
)
4:40 PM
Questions
5:00 PM
Tuesday 5pm
Tuesday 5pm
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions
5:00 PM
Universes as Big Data, or, Machine-Learning Mathematical Structures
-
Yang-Hui He
(
Oxford & City, University of London
)
5:40 PM
Questions
6:00 PM
The spectrum on M_{0,4} via Liouville theory
-
Sarah Harrison
(
McGill
)
6:40 PM
Questions
7:00 PM
Breakaway
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
2:00 PM
Wednesday 2pm
Wednesday 2pm
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions
2:00 PM
GLSMs, localisation, and the stringy Kahler moduli space
-
Johanna Knapp
(
University of Melbourne
)
2:40 PM
Questions
3:00 PM
On compactifications of 6d relative theories
-
Du Pei
(
Harvard
)
3:40 PM
Questions
4:00 PM
Matter representation and the geography of Lie subalgebras: an extension of the Katz-Vafa method
-
Jonathan Mboyo Esole
(
Northeastern University
)
4:40 PM
Questions
5:00 PM
Wednesday 5pm
Wednesday 5pm
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions
5:00 PM
The secret topological life of shared information
-
Thomas Mainiero
(
Rutgers
)
5:40 PM
Questions
6:00 PM
Twisted Holography & Koszul Duality
-
Natalie Paquette
(
Caltech
)
6:40 PM
Questions
7:00 PM
Breakaway
Thursday, July 30, 2020
2:00 PM
Thursday 2pm
Thursday 2pm
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions
2:00 PM
4d Chern-Simons Theory as a 3d Toda Theory, and a 3d-2d Correspondence
-
Meng-Chwan Tan
(
National University of Singapore
)
2:40 PM
Questions
3:00 PM
3d N=2 chiral algebras and dualities
-
Kevin Costello
(
Perimeter
)
3:40 PM
Questions
4:00 PM
Modularity of BPS invariants on Elliptic Fourfolds and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
-
Timo Weigand
(
Heidelberg
)
4:40 PM
Questions
5:00 PM
Thursday 5pm
Thursday 5pm
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions
5:00 PM
Volumes of Supermoduli Spaces
-
Edward Witten
(
IAS
)
5:40 PM
Questions
6:00 PM
Breakaway
7:00 PM
Public Talk (TBA)
-
Robbert Dijkgraaf
(
IAS
)
Friday, July 31, 2020
2:00 PM
Friday 2pm
Friday 2pm
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions
2:00 PM
On SCFTs at canonical singularities
-
Cyril Closset
(
Oxford
)
2:40 PM
Questions
3:00 PM
Curve counting and S-duality
-
Soheyla Feyzbakhsh
(
Imperial
)
3:40 PM
Questions
4:00 PM
Protected spin characters, link invariants and spectral networks
-
Andy Neitzke
(
Yale
)
4:40 PM
Questions
5:00 PM
Friday 5pm
Friday 5pm
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions
5:00 PM
Comments on Large Strings/Operators in N=4 SYM
-
Pedro Viera
(
Perimeter
)
5:40 PM
Questions
6:00 PM
Mock modularity and a secondary invariant
-
Theo Johnson-Freyd
(
Perimeter
)
6:40 PM
Questions
7:00 PM
Breakaway