WPC Theoretical Physics Symposium 2018

Contribution List

0. Chiral algebras of class S and symplectic varieties

Tomoyuki Arakawa

07/11/2018, 09:00

1. The superconformal bootstrap

Christopher Beem

07/11/2018, 10:30

2. Moonshine

Miranda Cheng

07/11/2018, 11:30

3. Tensor Networks in Low and High Energy Physics

Ignacio Cirac

07/11/2018, 14:00

4. Anomaly and symmetry-protected critical phases

Masaki Oshikawa

07/11/2018, 15:30

5. Departure to the Planetarium Hamburg

07/11/2018, 17:30

6. Quantum entanglement in many-body systems

Shinsei Ryu

08/11/2018, 09:00

7. Quantum information and holography

Michael Walter

08/11/2018, 10:30

8. Topology, duality, and quantum criticality

Senthil Todadri

08/11/2018, 11:30

9. Skein module valued open Gromov-Witten invariants and large N duality

Tobias Eckholm

08/11/2018, 14:00

From the perspective of topological string, holomorphic curves in a Calabi-Yau 3-fold ending on a Lagrangian deforms the Chern-Simons theory on the Lagrangian. Mathematically this can be interpreted as open Gromov-Witten invariants with values in the skein module of the Lagrangian. We discuss this definition and show how it combined with a specific deformation of the complex structure known as...

10. Periods and quasiperiods of modular forms and D-brane masses of the quintic

Albrecht Klemm

08/11/2018, 15:30

We consider one complex structure parameter mirror families $W$ of Calabi-Yau 3-folds with Picard-Fuchs equations of hypergeometric type. By mirror symmetry the even D-brane masses of the orginal Calabi-Yau $M$ can be identified with four periods w.r.t. to an integral symplectic basis of $H_3(W,Z)$ at the point of maximal unipotent monodromy. It was discovered by Chad Schoen in 1986 that...

11. Lessons from six dimensions for geometry, the string landscape/swampland, and the nature of matter

Washington Taylor

09/11/2018, 09:00

The geometrical formulation of string theory through "F-theory" provides a nonperturbative framework that connects geometry with the physics of gauge theories and matter fields coupled to supergravity. In six dimensions, this has led to new insights into the global structure of the "landscape" of supergravity theories and string theory vacua, has provided new mathematical results on Calabi-Yau...

12. Gauge theory from Geometry

Sakura Schäfer-Nameki

09/11/2018, 10:30

13. Quantum Gravity and the Swampland

Gary Shiu

09/11/2018, 11:30

14. Swampland Constraints on High Energy Physics

Irene Valenzuela

09/11/2018, 14:00

15. A Stringy Test of the Weak Gravity Conjecture

Timo Weigand

09/11/2018, 15:30

16. W-supergravity

Dieter Luest

09/11/2018, 16:30