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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Mon
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Tue
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Wed
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Thu
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Fri
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8.00-9.00
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Registration
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Registration
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9.00-10.30
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Hans Jockers
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Andrea Brini
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Albrecht Klemm
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Alessandro Tomasiello
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Johannes Walcher
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Coffee Break
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11.00-11.30
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Johanna Knapp
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Sven Meinhardt
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Nicolo Piazzalunga
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Sara Pasquetti
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Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor
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Lunch Break
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14.00-14.30
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Stefan Groot Nibbelink
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Jie Gu
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Ingo Runkel
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Noppadol Mekareeya
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14.45-15.15
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Denis Klevers
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Ricardo Couso-Santamaria
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Magnus Engenhorst
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Fabian Rühle
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Coffee Break
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16.00-16.30
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Jonas Reuter
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Emanuel Scheidegger
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Taro Kimura
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17.00-19.00
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Reception
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The titles of the talks are
Speaker
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Title
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Ricardo Couso-Santamaria
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Resurgent transseries in topological string theory (slides)
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Magnus Engenhorst
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Phases of BPS states (slides)
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Stefan Groot Nibbelink
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Heterotic model building using (0,2) GLSMs (slides)
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Jie Gu
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Braiding Knots with Topological String (slides)
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Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor
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Quantum geometry and AGT
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Taro Kimura
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Towards U(N|M) knot invariant from ABJM theory (slides)
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Denis Klevers
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Mordell-Weil meets Tate-Shafarevich - the global F-theory gauge group (slides)
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Johanna Knapp
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D-branes in non-abelian gauged linear sigma models (slides)
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Sven Meinhardt
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Donaldson-Thomas Invariants in Mathematics and Physics (slides)
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Noppadol Mekareeya
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Coulomb branches of 3d N=4 field theories
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Sara Pasquetti
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Holomorphic blocks and q-CFT correlators (slides)
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Nicolo Piazzalunga
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Unoriented Gopakumar-Vafa invariants (slides)
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Jonas Reuter
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Quantum geometry of refined topological strings (slides)
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Fabian Rühle
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GLSMs and Torus Partition Functions (slides)
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Ingo Runkel
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LG/CFT correspondence for defects (slides)
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Emanuel Scheidegger
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A Lie algebra for topological strings
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