Institute for Mathematical Sciences Event Archive

String and M-Theory: The New Geometry of the 21st Century

Date change from 3 - 7 Dec 2018

(10 - 14 Dec 2018)

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Mohab Abou Zeid
University of Mainz, Germany
Jian Peng Ang
Stony Brook University, USA
Meer Ashwinkumar
National University of Singapore, Singapore
David Berman
Queen Mary University of London, UK

Double and exceptional geometry as a Kaluza-Klein theory

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Peter Bouwknegt
Australian National University, Australia

Aspects of T-duality: Recent progress and open questions

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Mark Bugden
Australian National University, Australia
Martin Cederwall
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Tensor hierarchy algebras and extended geometry

(Video)

Qingtao Chen
New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

Recent progress of various volume conjectures for links as well as 3-manifolds

(Video)

Chong-Sun Chu
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Holography, Weyl anomaly and induced string current in 6d BCFT

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Jaklyn Crilly
The University of Adelaide, Australia
Jacques Distler
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ori Ganor
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Supersymmetric curvepoles

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Sergei G. Gukov
California Institute of Technology, USA

Topology of the space of quantum field theories

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Fei Han
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Modular invariants for proper actions

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Yang-Hui He
City, University of London, UK

Deep-learning the landscape

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Sukmoon Huh
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Noriaki Ikeda
Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Supergeometry analysis of geometric structure of double field theory

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Amer Iqbal
Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences, Pakistan
Branislav Jurco
Charles University Prague, Czech Republic

Courant algebroid connections and Poisson-Lie T-duality of string effective actions

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Alex Kinsella
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Neil Lambert
King's College London, UK

M-Branes: lessons from M2's and hopes for M5's

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Kimyeong Lee
Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea

T-duality in little string theories

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Si Li
Tsinghua University, China

Semi-infinite hodge structure: from BCOV theory to Seiberg-Witten geometry

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Weijun Li
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Xiaoguang Li
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Kim Song Lim
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jianlong Lu
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Joseph Minahan
Uppsala University, Sweden

Maximal super Yang-Mills on spheres

Samuel Monnier
University of Geneva, Switzerland

Wu Chern-Simons theories and string theory

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Takuya Okuda
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Kee Seng Png
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Abhishodh Prakash
Stony Brook University, USA
Abdul Raheem
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Martin Rocek
Stony Brook University, USA
Christian Saemann
Heriot-Watt University, UK

Higher Gauge theories and superconformal field theories in six dimensions

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Hisham Sati
New York University, UAE

Geometric and topological aspects of M-theory

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Urs Schreiber
Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic and New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

Equivariant stable cohomotopy and branes

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Ashoke Sen
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India

Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series:

Developments in superstring perturbation theory

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Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series:

Analyticity and crossing symmetry in superstring theory

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Yunseok Seo
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Eric Sharpe
Virginia Tech, USA

A proposal for nonabelian mirrors in two-dimensional theories

(Video)

Eirik Eik Svanes
King’s College London, UK
Meng-Chwan Tan
National University of Singapore, Singapore

From little strings to M5-branes via a quasi-topological sigma model on loop group

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Higher AGT correspondences, W-algebras, and higher quantum geometric Langlands duality from M-Theory

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Jonathan Teo
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Guo Chuan Thiang
The University of Adelaide, Australia

T-duality methods in topological matter

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Fridrich Valach
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Mathai Varghese
The University of Adelaide, Australia

Exotic equivariant cohomology of loop space applied to the exchange of momentum and winding in T-duality in an H-flux

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Matthew Wheeler
The University of Arizona, USA

Rational higher structures and variations of topological actions

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Martin Wolf
University of Surrey, UK

L∞ algebras, the BV formalism, and classical fields

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Kyle Wright
Australian National University, Australia
Siye Wu
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Junya Yagi
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada

Unification of integrability in supersymmetric gauge theories

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Maxim Zabzine
Uppsala University, Sweden

Twisting with the flip: N=2 SYM on curved manifolds

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