Conference

``Geometry of Strings and Fields”

September 8th-13th 2013

Organizers:  Francesco Bonechi (INFN), Alberto Cattaneo (Zurich University), Sergei Gukov  (Caltech University), Martin Rocek (Stony Brook University), Domenico Seminara (Università di Firenze) ,  Maxim Zabzine (Uppsala University)

1. Participants   Conference Schedule     Visit info 

1. Invited Speakers:
   

1. •Damien Calaque  Derived geometry and the classical BV formalism
   

2. •Clay  Cordova  Line Defects in N=2 Quantum Field Theory
   

3. •Tobias   Ekholm   Topological strings and knot contact homology   [slides] 
   

4. •Giovanni Felder    Critical loci and classical master equation
   

5. •Ezra Getzler    Derived stacks
   

6. •Sergey Gukov   New geometric correspondence between 4-manifolds and 2d gauge theories     [slides]
   

7. •Reimudo Heluani   Mathieu's Moonshine
   

8. •Chris Hull  Time for the M5-Brane [slides]
   

9. •Johan Kallen  Instanton effects and quantum spectral curves
   

10. •George Papadopoulos   Symmetries of black holes and index theory    [slides]
    

11. •Sara Pasquetti    3d&5d partition functions as  q-CFT correlators      [slides]
    

12. •Sanjaye Ramgoolam    Free fields, Quivers and Riemann surfaces     [slides]
    

13. •Nick Rozenblyum   Shifted  Poisson structures and quantization
    

14. •Susanne Reffert  The Omega deformation from String and M-Theory     [slides]
    

15. •Katharina Rejzner  Effective quantum gravity as a locally covariant QFT     [slides]
    

16. •Miguel Tierz  Refined Chern-Simons and q-2d Yang-Mills theories through matrix models     [slides]
    

17. •Alessandro Tomasiello    Supersymmetry on curved spaces and holography    [slides]
    

18. •Gabriele Vezzosi   Derived symplectic geometry   [sildes]
    

19. •Rikard Von Unge   Generalized Kahler Quotients

This conference is part of the  8-week program ``Geometry of Strings and fields’’ taking place at GGI  from 26-08-2013 to 20-10-2013