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This Workshop is the ninth conducted by the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook and the fourteenth in the series Simons Summer Workshops. This year’s summer workshop will focus on the role of topology in physics with particular emphasis in recent exciting developments in the context of condensed matter systems as well as in topological field theories and string theory and their possible interplay. We are hoping to have a broad range of experts whose common focus is on topological aspects of physics.
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
All talks will be held in the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Lecture Hall (Room 102).
Breakfast will be served daily from 9:00am-10:00am in the Simons Center Cafe, 2nd floor.
Lunch will be served from 12:00pm-2:00pm in the Simons Center Cafe, 2nd floor.
Tea time will be in the Simons Center Lobby at 3:30pm.
Wednesdays
The talk will be at Smith Point Beach (please see transportation website). Lunch will be served at Smith Point Beach around 12:30pm.
*Speakers and titles will be added to the schedule throughout the workshop.
Simons Summer Talk and Events Workshop Schedule:
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location | |
| Tuesday, July 5 | ||||
| 10:00am | Bordism, Unitarity and Topological Phases of Matter | Dan Freed | 102 | |
| Wednesday July 6 | ||||
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | ||
| 11:00pm | A Duality Web in 2+1 Dimensions and Condensed Matter Physics | Nathan Seiberg | Smith Point Beach | |
| 3:00pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | ||
| Thursday July 7 | ||||
| 10:00am | Fermionic and Bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological States in Condensed Matter Systems and Beyond | Cenke Xu | 102 | |
| 6:30pm | Banquet at Martin Rocek’s Residence | Rocek Residence | ||
| Friday July 8 | ||||
| 10:00am | Defects of 6d CFT’s | Jonathan Heckman | 102 | |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location | |
| Monday, July 11 | ||||
| 10:00am | Resurgence and BPS spectra of 3-manifolds | Sergei Gukov | 102 | |
| Tuesday, July 12 | ||||
| 10:00am | Symmetry protected topological phase in interacting fermionic systems and group super-cohomology | Zheng-Cheng Gu | 102 | |
| 6:00pm | Summer Concert Series | Jose Conde y Ola Fresca | 103 | |
| Wednesday July 13 | ||||
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | ||
| 11:00pm | Topological lessons from string theory | Dave Morrison | Smith Point Beach | |
| 3:00pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | ||
| Thursday July 14 | ||||
| 10:00am | Branes, Bricks and 2d (0,2) gauge theories | Rak-Kyeong Seong | 102 | |
| 6:00pm | Banquet at Avalon Park | Avalon Barn | ||
| Friday July 8 | ||||
| 10:00am | Supersymmetric Phases with a Broad Brush | Thomas Dumitrescu | 102 | |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| Monday, July 18 | |||
| 10:00am | The conformal bootstrap for theories with fermions | Silviu Pufu | 102 |
| Tuesday, July 19 | |||
| 10:00am | Dirac duality and composite fermions | Chong Wang | 102 |
| 6:00pm | Summer Concert Series | The Early Bird Band | 103 |
| Wednesday July 20 | |||
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | |
| 11:00pm | Symmetry-enriched topological phases of matter and G-crossed braided tensor categories |
Maissam Barkeshli | Smith Point Beach |
| 3:00pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | |
| Thursday July 21 | |||
| 10:00am | Topological order at the surface of 3d symmetry protected phases | Lukasz Fidkowski | 102 |
| 6:30pm | Banquet at The Bershadsky’s | Bershadsky Residence | |
| Friday July 22 | |||
| 10:00am | The SYK model and near extremal black holes | Juan Maldacena | 102 |
| Time | Title | Speaker | Location |
| Monday, July 25 | |||
| 10:00am | Laughlin wavefunctions and gauge theory | Nikita Nekrasov | 102 |
| Tuesday, July 26 | |||
| 10:00am | Many-body topological invariants for fermionic SPT phases | Shinsei Ryu | 102 |
| 4:30pm | Islamic and East Asian Ceramic art in World-Class Museums: Comparing two Different Philosophies of Display | Lecture by Valerie Gonzalez | 102 |
| 6:00pm | Summer Concert Series | Highline Chamber Ensemble | 103 |
| Wednesday July 27 | |||
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | |
| 11:00pm | Fractional quantum Hall wavefunctions from conformal field theory and applications of generalized screening | Nick Read | Smith Point Beach |
| 3:00pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | |
| Thursday July 28 | |||
| 10:00am | Topologically protected edge modes with and without symmetries | Sriram Ganeshan | 102 |
| 6:00pm | Banquet at The Directors House | John Morgans Residence | |
| Friday July 29 | |||
| 10:00am | Relationship between Symmetry Protected Topological (SPT) Phases and Boundary Conformal Field Theory via the Entanglement Spectrum | Andreas Ludwig | 102 |
Z2/Z8
A hand drawn film by Tony Phillips from 1977 about surfaces giving a geometric interpretation of the Z/2 in Z/8Z cobordism group of surfaces with spin or pin structures via immersions in three space modulo the relation of immersed cobordism in three space x time interval.
This relates to several talks at the workshop, particularly Shinsei Ryu’s talk https://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=2735 with the Z/8Z generated by the pin structure on the real projective plane.
1. Eight Boys Bound
2. Eight Boys Bound-supplementary material