String-Math 2024 | (smr 3944) (10-14 June 2024)

Administration

Description

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An ICTP Meeting

This is the 14th edition of the conference which has taken place annually since 2011. The main goal of the meeting is to bring together mathematicians and physicists who work on ideas related to string theory. This interaction and interface continues to be fruitful following decades of success.

Confirmed Speakers:

Mina Aganagic

Hulya Arguz
Pierrick Bousseau

Mathew Bullimore

Yalong Cao

Arun Debray

Lorenz Eberhardt

Lorenzo Foscolo

Davide Gaiotto
Jerome Gauntlett

Mark Gross

Albrecht Klemm

Shota Komatsu

Greg Moore

Nikita Nekrasov

Denis Nesterov

Mauricio Romo

Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Vivek Shende

Song Sun

Cumrun Vafa

Edward Witten

Masahito Yamazaki

Presentations from Early Career Researchers:

There will be a session dedicated to short presentations from Early Career Researchers. If you wish to be considered for such a presentation please indicate this in the contributed talk section of the application pages.

A registration fee is required for participants to attend the conference. The standard fee is 250 euros, with a reduced rate for PhD and Masters students of 150 euros.

Details of how to pay will be sent to selected participants at a later stage.

Abstract: Applicants who want to present a poster or give a contributed talk are asked to submit a research abstract. Please use the ICTP templates that are available below for download.

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. Registration fees for these participants will be waived.

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Nearby events:

String Phenomenology (24 - 28 June, 2024) in Padova (Italy)
https://indico.dfa.unipd.it/event/1051/

Strings 2024 conference (3 - 7 June, 2024) at CERN (Switzerland)
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1284995/

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Material

Abstract Template Booklet Contributed Talks Final list of Participants Group photo Post.Presenters Poster

String-Math 2024 | (smr 3944)

Go to day

Monday, 10 June 2024

08:30 - 10:00 Registration

The registration is necessary for participants who does not stay at the ICTP Guest Houses.

09:45 Opening remarks 15'

Speaker:	Bobby ACHARYA (ICTP)
Material:	Video

10:00 - 14:00 Chair: Ron DONAGI

10:00 Homological link invariants from an A-brane category 50'

Speaker:	Mina AGANAGIC (University of California At Berkeley)
Material:	Slides Video

10:50 Coffee Break 30'

11:20 3d N=4 Theories, Quiver Varieties and Vertex Operator Algebras 50'

Speaker:	Masahito YAMAZAKI (The University of Tokyo)
Material:	Video

12:10 Lunch 1h50'

14:00 - 17:10 Chair: Ori Joseph GANOR

14:00 Equivariant Localization in Supergravity 50'

Speaker:	Jerome P. GAUNTLETT (Imperial College London)
Material:	Slides Video

15:00 KSBA moduli spaces of log CY surfaces with a view toward 5d SCFTs 50'

Speaker:	Hulya ARGUZ (University of Georgia)
Material:	Slides Video

15:50 Coffee Break 30'

16:20 Anomaly cancellation in string theory using homotopy theory 50'

Speaker:	Arun DEBRAY (Purdue University)
Material:	Slides Video

17:45 - 19:30 Poster session
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Tuesday, 11 June 2024

09:00 - 14:00 Chair: Michele CIRAFICI

09:00 Unitary Categorical Symmetry 50'

Speaker:	Mathew BULLIMORE (Durham University)
Material:	Slides Video

10:00 Towards a complexification of Donaldson-Witten TQFT 50'

Speaker:	Yalong CAO (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Material:	Slides Video

10:50 Coffee Break 30'

11:20 Contributed talks 50'

Zhengping Gui
Alessandro Giacchetto
Veronica Fantini
Maximiliano Ferro
Ideal Majtara

Material:

Slides

Video

12:10 Lunch 1h50'

14:00 - 17:10 Chair: Boris Samuel PIOLINE

14:00 Calabi-Yau period motives in QFT, String theory and general relativity 50'

Speaker:	Otto Albrecht KLEMM (Physikalisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn)
Material:	Slides Video

15:00 Contributed talks 50'

Bhanu Kiran Sandepudi
Ioana Coman
Saebyeok Jeong
Elise Lepage
Daniel Baldwin

Material:

Slides

Video

15:50 Coffee Break 30'

16:20 Non-toric brane webs, Calabi-Yau 3-folds, and 5d SCFTs 50'

Speaker:	Pierrick BOUSSEAU (University of Georgia)
Material:	Slides Video

Wednesday, 12 June 2024

09:00 - 14:00 Chair: Luca GRIGUOLO

09:00 Developments on relations between GLSMs and equivalences of categories 50'

Speaker:	Mauricio ROMO (Tsinghua University)
Material:	Slides Video

10:00 A landscape of 2d string theories 50'

Speaker:	Lorenz Valentin EBERHARDT (University of Amsterdam)
Material:	Slides Video

10:50 Coffee Break 30'

11:20 Cardy Formula and the Black Hole Entropy 50'

Speaker:	Cumrun VAFA (Harvard University)
Material:	Slides Video

12:10 Lunch 1h50'

14:00 - 16:20 Chair: Domenico SEMINARA

14:00 Intrinsic mirror symmetry 50'

Speaker:	Mark William GROSS (University of Cambridge)
Material:	Video

14:50 Exercises in skein-valued curve counting 50'

Speaker:	Vivek SHENDE (Syddansk Universitet and UC Berkeley)
Material:	Video

15:40 Coffee Break 30'

17:00 - 18:00 Sciama SISSA Colloquium

The Colloquium will be broadcast.
Here is Live streaming LINK

Location:

Former SISSA Building Via Beirut, 2-4, 34151 Trieste ( Aula Magna )

17:00 Black Hole Thermodynamics: Then and Now 1h0'

Speaker: Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences)

Thursday, 13 June 2024

09:00 - 14:00 Chair: Joerg TESCHNER

09:00 Categorical Landau Paradigm 50'

Speaker:	Sakura SCHAFER-NAMEKI (Oxford University)
Material:	Slides Video

10:00 Small complex structure degeneration of Calabi-Yau metrics 50'

Speaker:	Song SUN (Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Zhejiang University and UC Berkeley)
Material:	Slides Video

10:50 Coffee Break 30'

11:20 Hypertoric varieties, W-Hilbert schemes and Coulomb branches 50'

Speaker:	Lorenzo FOSCOLO (Rome University)
Material:	Slides Video

12:10 Group photo & Lunch 1h50'

14:00 - 17:10 Chair: Matteo BERTOLINI

14:00 Instantons and the Large N=4 Algebra 50'

Speaker:	Edward WITTEN (Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences)
Material:	Video

14:50 Contributed talks 50'

Marina Moleti
Qianyu Hao
Saghar Hosseini
Edward Mazenc
Vatsal

Material:

Slides

Video

15:40 Coffee Break 30'

16:10 Contributed talks 50'

Eduardo Garcia-Valdecasas
Michael Schultz
Irit Huq-Kuruvilla
Tommaso Botta
Justin Kulp

Material:

Slides

Video

18:00 - 19:30 Poster session and Welcome reception
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Friday, 14 June 2024

09:00 - 14:00 Chair: Ki-Myeong LEE

09:00 Unramified Gromov-Witten and Gopakumar-Vafa invariants 50'

Speaker:	Denis NESTEROV (Universität Wien)
Material:	Slides Video

10:00 Update On Applications Of Supersymmetric Field Theory To Invariants Of Smooth Four-Manifolds 50'

Speaker:	Greg MOORE (Rutgers University)
Material:	Slides Video

10:50 Coffee Break 30'

11:20 Schur Quantization of Complex Chern-Simons Theory 50'

Speaker:	Davide GAIOTTO (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Material:	Slides Video

12:10 Lunch 1h50'

14:00 - 15:50 Chair: Vladimir ROUBTSOV

14:00 Categorical Symmetries and Scattering Amplitudes 50'

Speaker:	Shota KOMATSU (CERN)
Material:	Slides Video

14:50 Some Yang-Mills tools for polymers with cosmic strings and multilayered graphene 50'

Speaker:	Nikita NEKRASOV (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook)
Material:	Video