6th Bethe Center Workshop
Topological String and Applications
Program
There will be pedagogical introductory lectures each day followed by research talks by the participants. The introductory talks will be- Andrea Brini: "Introduction to matrix models"
- Hans Jockers: "Topological Strings and Effective Interactions"
- Albrecht Klemm: "Introduction into Refined Topological String Theory"
- Johannes Walcher: "Introduction to Matrix Factorizations and D-branes"
- Alessandro Tomasiello: "Geometric aspects of supersymmetric field theories on curved manifolds"
The preliminary schedule is
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| 8.00-9.00 | Registration | Registration | ||||
| 9.00-10.30 | Hans Jockers | Andrea Brini | Albrecht Klemm | Alessandro Tomasiello | Johannes Walcher | |
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| 11.00-11.30 | Johanna Knapp | Sven Meinhardt | Nicolo Piazzalunga | Sara Pasquetti | Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor | |
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| 14.00-14.30 | Stefan Groot Nibbelink | Jie Gu | Ingo Runkel | Noppadol Mekareeya | ||
| 14.45-15.15 | Denis Klevers | Ricardo Couso-Santamaria | Magnus Engenhorst | Fabian Rühle | ||
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| 16.00-16.30 | Jonas Reuter | Emanuel Scheidegger | Taro Kimura | |||
| 17.00-19.00 | Reception | |||||
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| Speaker | Title |
| Ricardo Couso-Santamaria | Resurgent transseries in topological string theory (slides) |
| Magnus Engenhorst | Phases of BPS states (slides) |
| Stefan Groot Nibbelink | Heterotic model building using (0,2) GLSMs (slides) |
| Jie Gu | Braiding Knots with Topological String (slides) |
| Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor | Quantum geometry and AGT |
| Taro Kimura | Towards U(N|M) knot invariant from ABJM theory (slides) |
| Denis Klevers | Mordell-Weil meets Tate-Shafarevich - the global F-theory gauge group (slides) |
| Johanna Knapp | D-branes in non-abelian gauged linear sigma models (slides) |
| Sven Meinhardt | Donaldson-Thomas Invariants in Mathematics and Physics (slides) |
| Noppadol Mekareeya | Coulomb branches of 3d N=4 field theories |
| Sara Pasquetti | Holomorphic blocks and q-CFT correlators (slides) |
| Nicolo Piazzalunga | Unoriented Gopakumar-Vafa invariants (slides) |
| Jonas Reuter | Quantum geometry of refined topological strings (slides) |
| Fabian Rühle | GLSMs and Torus Partition Functions (slides) |
| Ingo Runkel | LG/CFT correspondence for defects (slides) |
| Emanuel Scheidegger | A Lie algebra for topological strings |
