KMPB School 2025: D-branes in Physics & Mathematics

22 Sept 2025, 08:45 → 26 Sept 2025, 13:00 Europe/Berlin

1.201 - Christian Gerthsen-Hörsaal (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

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:

• Swampland Program by Matilda Delgado (MPP & Harvard) 

• Homological Mirror Symmetry by Ailsa Keating (Cambridge)

• Topological Strings by Albrecht Klemm (Bonn & Sheffield)

• D-branes in String Compactifications by Johannes Walcher (Heidelberg)

Poster_KMPB25.pdf

Monday 22 September

Registration

D-branes in String Compactifications: Lecture 1

Coffee Break

Topological Strings: Lecture 1

Lunch Break

Swampland Program: Lecture 1

Coffee Break

Homological Mirror Symmetry: Lecture 1

Poster Session

Tuesday 23 September

Topological Strings: Lecture 2

Coffee Break

D-branes in String Compactifications: Lecture 2

Lunch Break

Homological Mirror Symmetry: Lecture 2

Coffee Break

Swampland Program: Lecture 2

Wednesday 24 September

Topological Strings: Lecture 3

Coffee Break

Homological Mirror Symmetry: Lecture 3

Thursday 25 September

Homological Mirror Symmetry: Lecture 4

Coffee Break

D-branes in String Compactifications: Lecture 3

Lunch Break

Topological Strings: Lecture 4

15:45 Coffee break

Swampland Program: Lecture 3

School Dinner

Friday 26 September

Swampland Program: Lecture 4

Coffee Break

D-branes in String Compactifications: Lecture 4