Integrable Structures and Low Dimensional Geometries
July 25 – August 19
Scientific advisor: Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)
Local coordinator: Martin Rocek
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We are pleased to announce the 2011 Summer Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics from July 25 to August 19. This is the fourth Summer Workshop 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. This workshop is also a continuation of eight previous Simons Workshops; like them, 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 Integrable Structures and Low Dimensional Geometries.
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 on the YITP webpage:
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/conf/simonswork8/
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/conf/simonswork7/
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/conf/simonswork6/
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/conf/simonswork5/
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/conf/simonswork4/
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/conf/simonswork3/
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/conf/simonsworkII/
http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/itp/conf/simonswork/
Further details of this summer’s workshop will be posted here as they become available.
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 25, 2011, Monday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 9:45AM | Welcome and Orientation | ||
| 10:00AM | Clay Cordova: BPS Quiver Theories | video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| July 26, 2011, Tuesday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Masahito Yamazaki: “3d Susy Gauge Theories and Hyperbolic Geometry” | video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| 5:30PM
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 Concert: Ray Anderson Quartet, SCGP Auditorium Room 103 Download Bio |
Video: part1, part2 | |
| July 27, 2011, Wednesday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) | Sergei Gukov “Combinatorics of 3-manifolds and 3d gauge theories” | video | |
| July 28, 2011, Thursday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Jim Simons: “Origin of Chern-Simons” | video | |
| 2:00PM | Cumrun Vafa “M+W=T: an explanation of DGG” | video | |
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| 7:00PM | Party at Cumrun Vafa’s | ||
| July 29, 2011, Friday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Miranda Cheng “K3, Mathieu Group, and Holographic Moonshine” | video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| August 1, 2010, Monday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Mina Aganagic: “Knot Homology from Refined Chern-Simons Theory” | video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| August 2, 2011, Tuesday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Andrei Marshakov: “Quivers, cluster variables and integrable systems” | video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | ||
| 3:30PM
7:00PM |
Concert by world renown pianist Leon Livshin, and internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Juliana Fazzone |
Tea
Simons Center Auditorium, Room 103. Doors at 7:00pm, Concert at 7:30 |
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| August 3, 2011, Wednesday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) | Alexei Morozov “A Simple Formula for Superseries of Toric Knots and Links” | video | |
| August 4, 2011, Thursday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Robbert Dijkgraaf: “Quantum Geometry of Refined Topological Strings” | Video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| 6:00PM | Party at Simons’ | ||
| August 5, 2011, Friday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Marcos Marino: “Torus Knots and Mirror Symmetry” | Video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| August 8, 2011, Monday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Vasily Pestun: “‘t Hooft Loops in N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories on S^4” |
Video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| August 9, 2011, Tuesday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Piljin Yi: “Ab Initio Wall-Crossing” | Video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| 5:00PM
6:00pm |
Wine and Cheese Reception:
Concert by renown pianist Leon Livshin |
Leon Livshin Program 8-9 | |
| August 10, 2011, Wednesday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) | Anton Kapustin: “Three-dimensional Avatars of Seiberg Duality” | Video | |
| August 11, 2011, Thursday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Daniel Jafferis: “Three Sphere Partition Functions and 3d F-theorem”. | Video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| 7:00PM | Party at Martin Rocek’s | ||
| August 12, 2011, Friday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Kazuhiro Hikami: “Volume Conjecture and Quantum Dilogarithm Function” | Video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:30PM | Informal discussions | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| August 15, 2011, Monday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Vivek Shende: “D2-D0 branes wrapping singular curves, and knot homology” | Video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:00PM | Emanuel Diaconescu | Video | |
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| August 16, 2011, Tuesday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Mike Douglas: “Does String Theory Predict Low Energy Supersymmetry?” | Video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:00PM | Daniel Robbins: “Higher Derivative Corrections to D-brane Actions from T-duality and Disc Amplitudes” | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| 5:00pm
6:00PM |
Wine and cheese reception
Leslie Valentine, mezzo-soprano and Daniel Ragone, piano |
Piano Recital, SCGP Auditorium, Room 103
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| August 17, 2011, Wednesday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 11:00AM at Smith Point Beach (meet at department for 10:00 departure if you need or can offer transportation) | Igor Klebanov: Measuring the Number of Degrees of Freedom in CFT | Video | |
| August 18, 2011, Thursday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM | Nathan Berkovits: “Geometric Origin of Pure Spinors.” | Video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:00PM | Informal Discussions | ||
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||
| 7:00PM | Party at John Morgan’s | ||
| August 19, 2011, Friday | |||
| 9:00AM | Breakfast | ||
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Video: part1, part2 | |
| 2:00PM | Balt Van Rees: A natural language for Ads/CFT correlators | Informal discussions: Video | |
| 3:30PM | Tea | ||