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
    • 1
      Opening Address
      Speaker: Jeff Murugan (UCT)
    • 2pm: Monday 2pm
      Convener: Emanuel Malek (Humboldt University)
      • 2
        Continuum Quantum Field Theory for Fractons
        Speaker: Shu-Heng Shao (IAS)
      • 3
        Questions
      • 4
        W Algebras
        Speaker: Thomas Creutzig (University of Alberta)
      • 5
        Questions
      • 6
        Supergroup Chern-Simons theory, q-series, and resurgence
        Speaker: Pavel Putrov (ICTP, Trieste)
      • 7
        Questions
    • 5pm: Monday 5pm
      Convener: Ines Aniceto (Southampton)
      • 8
        Gauging 1-form symmetries in 2d theories
        Speaker: Eric Sharpe (Virginia Tech)
      • 9
        Questions
      • 10
        3d Mirror Symmetry and HOMFLY Homology
        Speaker: Tudor Dimofte (UC Davis & Edinburgh)
      • 11
        Questions
      • 12
        Breakaway
    • 2pm: Tuesday 2pm
      Convener: Shajid Haque (UCT)
      • 13
        Associated varieties and 4D/2D correspondence
        Speaker: Tomoyuki Arakawa (Kyoto University)
      • 14
        Questions
      • 15
        Topological string partition functions from quantum curves
        Speaker: Joerg Teschner (Desy)
      • 16
        Questions
      • 17
        Quantum modularity of 3-manifold invariants
        Speaker: Francesca Ferrari (SISSA)
      • 18
        Questions
    • 5pm: Tuesday 5pm
      Convener: Silvia Penati (Milan Bicocca U. and INFN, Milan)
      • 19
        Universes as Big Data, or, Machine-Learning Mathematical Structures
        Speaker: Yang-Hui He (Oxford & City, University of London)
      • 20
        Questions
      • 21
        The spectrum on M_{0,4} via Liouville theory
        Speaker: Sarah Harrison (McGill)
      • 22
        Questions
      • 23
        Breakaway
    • 2pm: Wednesday 2pm
      Convener: Mirjam Cvetic (UPenn)
      • 24
        GLSMs, localisation, and the stringy Kahler moduli space
        Speaker: Johanna Knapp (University of Melbourne)
      • 25
        Questions
      • 26
        On compactifications of 6d relative theories
        Speaker: Du Pei (Harvard)
      • 27
        Questions
      • 28
        Matter representation and the geography of Lie subalgebras: an extension of the Katz-Vafa method
        Speaker: Jonathan Mboyo Esole (Northeastern University)
      • 29
        Questions
    • 5pm: Wednesday 5pm
      Convener: Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford)
      • 30
        The secret topological life of shared information
        Speaker: Thomas Mainiero (Rutgers)
      • 31
        Questions
      • 32
        Twisted Holography & Koszul Duality
        Speaker: Natalie Paquette (Caltech)
      • 33
        Questions
      • 34
        Breakaway
    • 2pm: Thursday 2pm
      Convener: Vishnu Jejjala (Wits)
      • 35
        4d Chern-Simons Theory as a 3d Toda Theory, and a 3d-2d Correspondence
        Speaker: Meng-Chwan Tan (National University of Singapore)
      • 36
        Questions
      • 37
        3d N=2 chiral algebras and dualities
        Speaker: Kevin Costello (Perimeter)
      • 38
        Questions
      • 39
        Modularity of BPS invariants on Elliptic Fourfolds and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
        Speaker: Timo Weigand (Heidelberg)
      • 40
        Questions
    • 5pm: Thursday 5pm
      Convener: Jeff Murugan (UCT)
      • 41
        Volumes of Supermoduli Spaces
        Speaker: Edward Witten (IAS)
      • 42
        Questions
      • 43
        Breakaway
      • 44
        Public Talk (TBA)
        Speaker: Robbert Dijkgraaf (IAS)
    • 2pm: Friday 2pm
      Convener: Nathan Moynihan (UCT)
      • 45
        On SCFTs at canonical singularities
        Speaker: Cyril Closset (Oxford)
      • 46
        Questions
      • 47
        Curve counting and S-duality
        Speaker: Soheyla Feyzbakhsh (Imperial)
      • 48
        Questions
      • 49
        Protected spin characters, link invariants and spectral networks
        Speaker: Andy Neitzke (Yale)
      • 50
        Questions
    • 5pm: Friday 5pm
      Convener: David Morrison (UCSB)
      • 51
        Comments on Large Strings/Operators in N=4 SYM
        Speaker: Pedro Viera (Perimeter)
      • 52
        Questions
      • 53
        Mock modularity and a secondary invariant
        Speaker: Theo Johnson-Freyd (Perimeter)
      • 54
        Questions
      • 55
        Breakaway