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Recent Advances in Gauge Theories and CFTs |
In the study of the dynamics of gauge theory, developments in the understanding of supersymmetric models have always played an important role. Many old ideas on physical phenomena at strong coupling, such as monopole condensation and confinement, turned out to have explicit realizations in such models. Supersymmetry also led to powerful computational machinary and numerous exact results on physical quantities. Some recent progress in this area are based on a number of surprising connections between gauge theories and integrable models or CFTs. The achievements obtained there will have applications both in physics and mathematics.
This conference focuses on the theoretical aspects of supersymmetric
gauge theories --- new computational techniques, underlying mathematical
structures and the relation and implication to the dynamics of branes
in superstring theory or M-theory.
1st circular,
2nd circular,
3rd circular (in Japanese)
| 10:00 -- 11:00 | Alexei Morozov (ITEP) "The power of AGT conjecture" |
| 11:00 -- 11:40 | Kazunobu Maruyoshi (Yukawa Institute) "Seiberg-Witten Theory via Penner Type Matrix Model" [ppt] |
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| 13:30 -- 14:30 | Niclas Wyllard (Chalmers University) "Matrix models, 2d CFTs and 4d N=2 gauge theories" [pdf] |
| 14:30 -- 15:10 | Jaemo Park (POSTECH) "The BPS spectrum of monopole operators in ABJM: towards a field theory description of the giant torus" [pdf] |
| (coffee) | |
| 16:00 -- 17:00 | Sungjay Lee (KIAS) "A Study of Wall-Crossing: D=2 CP^N vs D=4 Seiberg-Witten Theories" [pdf] | 17:00 -- 17:40 | Kazuhiro Sakai (Keio University) "Thermodynamic Bethe ansatz equations for minimal surfaces in AdS_3" [pdf] |
| (party) |
| 10:00 -- 11:00 | Takuya Okuda (Perimeter Institute) "Wilson-'t Hooft loops and Liouville theory" [pdf] |
| (coffee) | |
| 11:30 -- 12:30 | Joerg Teschner (DESY Theory) "Quantum Liouville theory vs. quantization of the Hitchin moduli spaces" [pdf] |
| (lunch) | |
| 14:00 -- 15:00 | Samson L. Shatashvili (Trinity College Dublin and IHES) "Quantum integrable systems and supersymmetric gauge theories" [pdf] |
| (coffee) | |
| 15:30 -- 16:30 | Hiroyuki Fuji (Nagoya University) "The Volume Conjecture and Topological Recursion" [pdf] |