Name: String Math 2020
Start: 2020-07-27T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-07-31T20:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

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

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