Scientific advisor: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)
Local coordinator: Martin Rocek
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Schedule of Events:
All talks will be held in the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Room 102
Speakers and titles will be added to the schedule throughout the workshop:
**Lunch will be served Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday in the Simons Center Café, 2nd floor from 12:00pm – 2:00pm**
**Lunch will be served on Wednesday’s at Smith Point Beach**
| July 30, 2012, Monday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 9:45AM | Welcome and Orientation | |
| 10:00AM | Masahito Yamazaki: “Networks, Grassmannians and SCFTs” | Video: Part1, Part2 |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | |
| 3:30PM to 5:30PM | For more info see: https://scgp.stonybrook.edu/archives/4169 | TeaArtistic Geometry: The Math Behind the Art by Carlo Sequin (Doors open at 5:30, Reception at 5:00pm) |
| July 31, 2012, Tuesday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 10:00AM | Dave Morrison: “Spherical partition functions and Gromov-Witten invariants.” | Video: Part1, Part2 |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | |
| 3:30PM | Tea | |
| 5:30PM Lecture 6:30PM Reception (Wine and Cheese) 7:00PM Concert |
Ocean Beasts Origami Lecture and Concert Series | Erik and Martin Demaine to give the lecture Leon Livshin to give the concertDemaine Bio |
| August 1, 2012, Wednesday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) | Jonathan Heckman: “Exceptional CFTs from D3-brane probes of 7-branes” | Video |
| August 2, 2012, Thursday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 10:00AM | Andrew Neitzke: “Spectral Networks and Argyres-Douglas-type CFT’s” | Video: Part1, Part2 |
| 2:30PM | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | |
| 5:30PM to 7:00PM | Concert: Music Experience: Creation, Re-Creation, Improvisation Renaud Dejardin (cello) and Leon Livshin (piano)Party at John Morgan’s |
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| August 3, 2012, Friday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 10:00AM |
Robert Wimmer: “Superconformal models in six dimensions”
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Video: Part1, Part2 |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | |
| 3:30PM | Tea | |
| August 6, 2012, Monday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 10:00AM | Richard Eager: “Superconformal Indices, Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds, and Cyclic Homologies” | Video: Part1, Part2 |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | |
| 3:30PM | Tea | |
| August 7, 2012, Tuesday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 10:00AM | Igor Klebanov: “Entanglement Entropy and 3-d Renormalization Group.” | Video: Part1, Part2 |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | |
| 5:30 pm Lecture 6:30 pm Reception (Wine and Cheese) 7:00 pm Concert |
Ocean Beasts Origami Lecture and Concert Series | Michael Assis to give the lecture Leon Livshin to give the concertMichael Assis Bio |
| August 8, 2012, Wednesday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) | Leonardo Rastelli: “6= (3+1) + 2: The Superconformal Index of Class S” | Video |
| August 9, 2012, Thursday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 10:00AM | Maxim Zabzine: “5D gauge theories, contact geometry and related issues” | Video: Part1, Part2 |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | |
| 3:30PM | Tea | |
| 6:00PM | Jim Simons’ party at Avalon Park | |
| August 10, 2012, Friday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 10:00AM | Daniel Jafferis: “Exact results for five-dimensional superconformal field theories with gravity duals” | Video: Part1, Part2 |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | |
| 3:30PM | Tea | |
| August 13, 2012, Monday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 10:00AM | Takuya Okuda: “Wilson-’t Hooft operators and the 4D/2D correspondence” | Video: Part1, Part2 |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | |
| 3:30PM | Tea | |
| August 14, 2012, Tuesday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 10:00AM | Hirosi Ooguri: “Modular Constraints on Calabi-Yau Compactifications” | Video: Part1, Part2 |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | |
| 3:30PM | Tea | |
| 7:00pm | Party at Martin Rocek’s | |
| August 15, 2012, Wednesday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) | Brian Wecht: “Central Charges and Monotonicity: A Status Report” | Video |
| August 16, 2012, Thursday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 10:00AM | Tudor Dimofte: “Holomorphic Blocks for 3d SCFT’s” | Video: Part1, Part2 |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | |
| 3:30PM | Tea | |
| 5:30 pm Lecture 6:30 pm Reception (Wine and Cheese) 7:00 pm Concert |
Ocean Beasts Origami Lecture and Concert Series | Christine Edison to give the lecture Leon Livshin and friends to give the concertChristine Edison Bio |
| August 17, 2012, Friday | ||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | |
| 10:00AM | Guido Festuccia: “Exploring curved superspace” | Video: Part1, Part2 |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | |
| 3:30PM | Tea | |
We are pleased to announce the 2012 Summer Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics from July 30 to August 17. This is the tenth Summer Workshop and the fifth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook. The Center’s mission is to develop the interaction of geometry in the broadest sense with theoretical physics, and is rooted in a long tradition of engagement between Mathematics and Physics here at Stony Brook, and ultimately in the centuries-long history of these two fields. The Stony Brook tradition is exemplified by the joint ITP-Math seminars initiated by Jim Simons and Frank Yang in the 1970′s; these stimulated interest worldwide in the mathematics of gauge theories. Like previous Simons Workshops, it will focus on the intersection between physics and mathematics, particularly in the context of string theory. One of the principal themes of this workshop will be Superconformal Theories in Diverse Dimensions.
The original workshops were strikingly successful. Some of the many papers that they led to can be found here.
As in the previous summer workshops, we hope to facilitate an informal yet vibrant atmosphere, in which a core of leading researchers interact together and with promising junior physicists and mathematicians. The program will be light, with a mix of both pedagogical and research talks. As at the previous workshops, Cumrun Vafa (Harvard Univ.) will serve as Scientific Advisor, in residence for the duration of the workshop.
Details from previous workshop can be found at:
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Further details of this summer’s workshop will be posted here as they become available.
