The KMPB School 2025: D-branes in Physics & Mathematics is a one-week program which will offer introductory courses covering topics underlying the modern understanding of D-branes in string theory and their incarnations in mathematics.
The school is organized by PhD students at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with the support of the KMPB (Kolleg Mathematik Physik Berlin), an interdisciplinary center at HU whose community of research groups shares a mutual interest in mathematics and physics.
In the spirit of the KMPB, the school aims at generating synergies between mathematicians and physicists and welcomes early career researchers (PhDs/PostDocs) in both fields.
The program consists of the following six-hour mini-courses:
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Swampland Program by Matilda Delgado (MPP & Harvard)
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Homological Mirror Symmetry by Ailsa Keating (Cambridge)
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Topological Strings by Albrecht Klemm (Bonn & Sheffield)
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D-branes in String Compactifications by Johannes Walcher (Heidelberg)
