Geometry Physics Seminars

Upcoming Seminars

Previous seminars

Spring 2023

08/03/2023

  • Title: Introduction to spectral networks
  • Speaker: Pietro Longhi
  • Video

15/02/2023

08/02/2023

25/01/2023

18/01/2023

Fall 2022

14/12/2022

07/12/2022

09/11/2022

26/10/2022

19/10/2022

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

1/12/2021

10/11/2021

20/10/2021

06/10/2021

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
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