String Math 2020

Europe/Zurich
Description

The String Math series of conferences have become an important event of the year for anyone working at the interface between mathematics and theoretical physics (string theory, quantum field theory and adjacent topics). In 2020, String Math comes to South Africa! Hosted jointly by the Universities of Stellenbosch and Cape Town from July 27th-31st, the conference itself will be hosted on Zoom (link provided by email upon registration) and live-streamed to Youtube. The Slack channel can be joined at http://stringmath2020.com/slack.

Invited Plenary Speakers

Tomoyuki Arakawa, Cyril Closset, Kevin Costello, Thomas Creutzig, Tudor Dimofte, Jonathan Mboyo Esole, Francesca Ferrari, Soheyla Feyzbakhsh, Sarah Harrison, Yang-Hui He, Theo Johnson-Freyd, Johanna Knapp, Thomas Mainiero, Andy Neitzke, Natalie Paquette, Du Pei, Pawel Putrov, Shu-Heng Shao, Eric Sharpe, Meng-Chwan Tan, Joerg Teschner, Pedro Viera(*), Timo Weigand, Edward Witten

Organising Committee

Jeff Murugan (Chair, UCT), Bruce Bartlett (Stellenbosch), Ron Donagi (UPenn), Shajid Haque (UCT), Nathan Moynihan (UCT), Ingrid Rewitzky (Stellenbosch), Jonathan Shock (UCT), Amanda Weltman (UCT)

Scientific Advisory Committee

Louis Alvarez-Gaume, Mina Aganagic, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Philip Candelas, Miranda Cheng, Mirjam Cvetic, Kevin Costello, Simon Donaldson, Xenia de la Ossa, Mboyo Esole, Davide Gaiotto, Sergei Gukov, Antonella Grassi, Albrecht Klemm , Matilde Marcolli, Marcos Marino, Juan Maldecena, Greg Moore, Hiraku Nakajima, Nikita Nekrasov, Rahul Pandharipande, Tony Pantev, Leonardo Rastelli, Sakura Schafer-Nameki, Eric Sharpe, Marcus Spradlin, Yuji Tachikawa, Richard Thomas, Pedro Viera, Ashvin Vishwanath, Katrin Wendland, Xiao-Gang Wen, Konstantin Zarembo

Steering Committee

Ron Donagi (UPenn), Dan Freed (Texas), Nigel Hitchin (Oxford), Sheldon Katz (Urbana-Champaign), Maxim Kontsevich (IHES), David Morrison (UCSB), Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech & IPMU), Boris Pioline (Sorbonne), Joerg Teschner (DESY), Edward Witten (IAS), Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard)

Code of Conduct

This event is committed to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, religion or lack thereof. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. Online bullying, sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any event venue, including talks, breakaway sessions, online social gatherings, Facebook, Twitter and other online media. Strings participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event.

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