String Math 2020

from Monday 27 July 2020 (09:00) to Friday 31 July 2020 (20:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Jul 2020
28 Jul 2020
29 Jul 2020
30 Jul 2020
31 Jul 2020
AM
PM
13:30 Opening Address - Jeff Murugan (UCT)  
14:00
2pm - Emanuel Malek (Humboldt University) (until 17:00)
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
5pm - Ines Aniceto (Southampton) (until 20:00)
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  
14:00
2pm - Shajid Haque (UCT) (until 17:00)
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
5pm - Silvia Penati (Milan Bicocca U. and INFN, Milan) (until 20:00)
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  
14:00
2pm - Mirjam Cvetic (UPenn) (until 17:00)
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
5pm - Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford) (until 20:00)
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  
14:00
2pm - Vishnu Jejjala (Wits) (until 17:00)
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
5pm - Jeff Murugan (UCT) (until 20:00)
17:00 Volumes of Supermoduli Spaces - Edward Witten (IAS)  
17:40 Questions  
18:00 Breakaway  
19:00 Public Talk (TBA) - Robbert Dijkgraaf (IAS)  
14:00
2pm - Nathan Moynihan (UCT) (until 17:00)
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
5pm - David Morrison (UCSB) (until 20:00)
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