Seminar series in Geometry and Physics
The purpose of these seminars is to have informal discussions and presentations of aspects of mathematics in string theory, quantum field theory, more broadly, theoretical physics, as encountered by members of the group or invited speakers.
The seminars typically take place on Wednesdays 10:30-11:30.
Organisers: Michele Del Zotto, Tobias Ekholm, Maxim Zabzine
Upcoming seminars
Previous seminars
Autumn 2024
04/12/2024
- Title: Holographic duals of Higgsed Dpb(BCD)
- Speaker: Yein Lee
06/11/2024
- Titel: Exploring Z-hat invariant for SO(3), OSp(1|2), and SU(N)/Z_m groups via Gukov-Pei-Putrov-Vafa (GPPV) conjecture
- Speaker: Sachin Chauhan
23/10/2024
- Title: Quantum toroidal algebra and the K-theory vertex
- Speaker: Yegor Zenkevich
09/10/2024
- Symmetries of string-constructed QFTs
- Speaker: Max Hübner
17/09/2024
- Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory
- Speaker: Clay Córdova
Spring 2024
05/06/2024
- Title: Holomorphic symplectic calculus for 3D topological gauge theory
- Speaker: Constantin Teleman
April, 2024
- Series of four lectures: Equivariant quantum volumes and symplectic cuts
- Speakers: Maxim Zabzine and Pietro Longhi
11/04/2024
- Informal Seminar about Generalized Symmetries and Dimensional Reduction
- Speaker: Du Pei
19/03/2024
- Title: The M-theory geometry of brane webs
- Speaker: Guillermo Arias-Tamarg
28/02/2024
- Title: 6d Little Strings, Twisted T-dualities and Geometry
- Speaker: Paul Konstantin Oehlmann
Spring 2023
08/03/2023
- Title: Introduction to spectral networks
- Speaker: Pietro Longhi
- Video
15/02/2023
- Mini-course on modern aspects of integrability - part 3
- Lecturer: Dmytro Volin
08/02/2023
- Mini-course on modern aspects of integrability - part 2
- Lecturer: Dmytro Volin
25/01/2023
- Mini-course on modern aspects of integrability - part 1
- Lecturer: Dmytro Volin
18/01/2023
- Title: Operads and Chiral integration (Factorization homology)
- Lecturer: Thomas Kragh (Uppsala University)
Fall 2022
14/12/2022
- Title: The Blowup Formula for the Instanton Part of Vafa-Witten Invariants on Projective Surfaces
- Seaker: Oliver Leigh (Uppsala University)
07/12/2022
- Title: Supersymmetric Partition Functions and the Coulomb Branch of 5d SCFTs
- Speaker: Cyril Closset, Birmingham U.
09/11/2022
- Title: Geometric Engineering Correspondences
- Speaker: Michele Del Zotto
26/10/2022
- Title: Non-invertible symmetries and (higher) categories
- Speaker: Christian Copetti, SISSA
19/10/2022
- Title: Skein valued curve counts in basic examples
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
Spring 2022
04/04/2022
- Title: A physics approach to counting special Lagrangian 3-manifolds (Part 2)
- Speaker: Pietro Longhi
16/03/2022
- Title: A physics approach to counting special Lagrangian 3-manifolds
- Speaker: Pietro Longhi
Fall 2021
16/02/2022 (postponed due to new covid restrictions)
- Title: Knot invariants and Topological Strings - Review (Part 3)
- Speaker: Michele Del Zotto
15/12/2021
- Title: Knot invariants and Topological Strings - Review (Part 2)
- Speaker: Michele Del Zotto
1/12/2021
- Title: Knot invariants and Topological Strings - Review
- Speaker: Michele Del Zotto
10/11/2021
- Title: HOMFLY homology and generalized quiver partition functions (part 3)
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
20/10/2021
- Title: HOMFLY homology and generalized quiver partition functions (part 2)
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
06/10/2021
- Title: HOMFLY homology and generalized quiver partition functions
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
Spring 2020
Strings, Geometry, and Quantum Fields Seminar
26/02/2020
- Title: Generalized global symmetries - I
- Speaker: Michele Del Zotto
04/03/2020
- Title: Recent Progresses about Special Holonomy Manifolds - I
- Speaker: Michele Del Zotto
11/03/2020
- Title: Generalized global symmetries - II
- Speaker: Michele Del Zotto
25/03/2020
- Title: Boxcounting - part 1
- Speaker: Nicolo Piazzalunga
01/04/2020
- Title: Generalized Global Symmetry - III
- Speaker: Usman Naseer
08/04/2020
- Title: Boxcounting - part 2
- Speaker: Nicolo Piazzalunga
15/04/2020
- Title: Generalized Global Symmetry - IV
- Speaker: Usman Naseer and Luca Cassia
21/04/2020 (Note: Tuesday)
- Title: IIB flux non-commutativity and the global structure of field theories (Nordic Seminar)
- Speaker: Iñaki García-Extebarria
29/04/2020
- Title: Generalized Global Symmetry - V
- Speaker: Luca Cassia
13/05/2020
- Title: Recent Progresses about Special Holonomy Manifolds - II
- Speaker: Michele Del Zotto
20/05/2020
- Title: G2-manifolds from Calabi-Yau 3-folds
- Speaker: Lorenzo Foscolo (UCL)
03/06/2020
- Title: Higher form symmetries and M-theory
- Speaker: Michele Del Zotto
17/06/2020
- Title: Toric ideas for special geometries
- Speaker: Andrew Francis Swann (Aarhus University)
24/06/2020
- Title: Applications to the classification of phases
- Speaker: Arash Arabi Ardehali
Spring 2018
04/04/2018
- Title: Variations on the theme of Ding-Iohara-Miki algebra
- Speaker: Yegor Zenkevich
25/04/2018
- Title: Large N duality via SFT stretching and skein on brane I
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
09/05/2018
- Title: Large N duality via SFT stretching and skein on brane II
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
Fall 2017
21/09/2017 (Note: Thursday)
- Title: Something Interesting I
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
27/09/2017
- Title: Something Interesting II
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
4/10/2017
- Title: Special cases of the orbifold version of Zvonkine’s r-ELSV formula I
- Speaker: Aleksandr Popolitov
11/10/2017
- Title: Special cases of the orbifold version of Zvonkine’s r-ELSV formula II
- Speaker: Aleksandr Popolitov
18/10/2017
- Title: From knots to BPS invariants via algebraic curves
- Speaker: Piotr Kucharski
25/10/2017
- Title: Knots-quivers correspondence
- Speaker: Piotr Kucharski
29/11/2017
- Title: Physics conjectures about topological Fukaya category
- Speaker: Luigi Tizzano
Spring 2017
11/01/2017
- Title: Knot polynomial and SW invariants from 3D-3D correspondence I
- Speaker: Jian Qiu
18/01/2017
- Title: Knot polynomial and SW invariants from 3D-3D correspondence II
- Speaker: Jian Qiu
01/02/2017
- Title: Knot polynomial and SW invariants from 3D-3D correspondence III
- Speaker: Jian Qiu
08/02/2017
- Title: Airy structures and symplectic geometry of topological recursion I
- Speaker: Thomas Kragh
15/02/2017
- Title: Physical and mathematical aspects of the WKB approximation I
- Speaker: Konstantina Polydorou
22/02/2017
- Title: Physical and mathematical aspects of the WKB approximation I
- Speaker: Konstantina Polydorou
01/03/2017
- Title: Airy structures and symplectic geometry of topological recursion I
- Speaker: Thomas Kragh
08/03/2017
- Title: Quantization of augmentation curves and topological recursion I
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
14/03/2017
- Title: Symplectic reduction and toric geometry
- Speaker: Jacob Winding
22/03/2017
- Title: Quantization of augmentation curves and topological recursion II
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
29/03/2017
- Title: Quantization of augmentation curves and topological recursion III
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
05/04/2017
- Title: The Ricci flow and its physical applications
- Speaker: Giuseppe Dibitetto
12/04/2017
- Title: The Ricci flow and Kähler manifolds
- Speaker: Giuseppe Dibitetto
26/04/2017
- Title: Informal discussion about contact homology and strings I
- Speaker: Maxim Zabzine and Tobias Ekholm
03/05/2017
- Title: Informal discussion about contact homology and strings II
- Speaker: Maxim Zabzine and Tobias Ekholm
24/05/2017
- Title: Informal discussion about contact homology and strings III
- Speaker: Maxim Zabzine and Tobias Ekholm
Spring 2016
13/01/2016
- Title: Wall-Crossing I
- Speaker: Pietro Longhi
20/01/2016
- Title: Wall-Crossing II
- Speaker: Pietro Longhi
27/01/2016
- Title: Examples of wall crossing phenomena in Floer theory I
- Speaker: Maksim Maydanskiy
10/02/2016
- Title: Examples of wall crossing phenomena in Floer theory II
- Speaker: Maksim Maydanskiy
17/02/2016
- Title: Examples of wall crossing phenomena in Floer theory III
- Speaker: Maksim Maydanskiy
Fall 2015
01/09/2015
- Title: More on the ADHM contruction I
- Speaker: Jian Qiu
09/09/2015
- Title: More on the ADHM contruction II
- Speaker: Jian Qiu
16/09/2015
- Title: More on the ADHM contruction III
- Speaker: Jian Qiu
30/09/2015
- Title: Introduction to Topological String Theory I
- Speaker: Luigi Tizzano
07/10/2015
- Title: Introduction to Topological String Theory II
- Speaker: Luigi Tizzano
21/10/2015
- Title: String Topology I
- Speaker: Thomas Kragh
28/10/2015
- Title: Introduction to Topological String Theory III
- Speaker: Luigi Tizzano
04/11/2015
- Title: Floer Monopole groups of a three-manifold I
- Speaker: Sebastian Pöder
11/11/2015
- Title: Floer Monopole groups of a three-manifold II
- Speaker: Sebastian Pöder
18/11/2015
- Title: String Topology II
- Speaker: Thomas Kragh
02/12/2015
- Title: String Topology III
- Speaker: Thomas Kragh
09/12/2015
- Title: String Topology IV + Introduction to Vertex Algebras
- Speaker: Thomas Kragh & Jacob Winding
16/12/2015
- Title: String Topology V
- Speaker: Thomas Kragh
Spring 2015
24/02/2015
- Title: The Gopakumar-Vafa conjecture for symplectic Calabi-Yau 6-folds
- Speaker: Remi Cretois
03/03/2015
- Title: The Gopakumar-Vafa invariants from the point of view of physics
- Speaker: Maxim Zabzine
17/03/2015
- Title: Introduction to Donaldson-Thomas theory
- Speaker: Jian Qiu
07/04/2015
- Title: Gromov-Witten and Donaldson-Thomas in toric setting
- Speaker: Jian Qiu
28/04/2015
- Title: Introduction to F-theory
- Speaker: Luigi Tizzano
06/05/2015
- Title: Introduction to Contact Homology I
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
12/05/2015
- Title: Introduction to Contact Homology II
- Speaker: Tobias Ekholm
19/05/2015
- Title: 5D Gauge Theories, Instantons and Contact Geometry I
- Speaker: Maxim Zabzine
27/05/2015
- Title: 5D Gauge Theories, Instantons and Contact Geometry II
- Speaker: Maxim Zabzine
02/06/2015
- Title: Introduction to the ADHM construction I
- Speaker: Jian Qiu
09/06/2015
- Title: Introduction to the ADHM construction II
- Speaker: Jian Qiu