Downloadable Schedules by Week:
Week 1 (7/22-7/26) Week 2 (7/29-8/2) Week 3 (8/5-8/9) Week 4 (8/12-8/16)
All talks will be held in the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics Lecture Hall, Room 102
Speakers and titles will be added to the schedule throughout the workshop.
**Breakfast will be served daily from 9:00am-10:00am in the Simons Center Café, 2nd floor**
**Lunch will be served from 12:00pm-2:30pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday in the Simons Center Café, 2nd floor**
**Lunch will be served on Wednesdays at Smith Point Beach around 12:30pm**
**Tea time will be served daily at 3:30pm on the 1st floor patio, as long as weather permits**
Simons Summer Talk and Events Workshop Schedule
| Monday 7/22 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | BPS defects in supersymmetric gauge theories | Davide Gaiotto | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Tuesday 7/23 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Seiberg-Witten theories on ellipsoids | Kazuo Hosomichi | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| 5:30pm | “Dance your PhD” | Diana Davis | 103 | video |
| 6:00pm | Wine and Cheese Reception | Lobby | ||
| 6:30pm | Musical Performance | Andrey Tchekmazov on cello and pianist Leon Livshin | 103 | video |
| Wednesday 7/24 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | ||
| 11:00pm | Defect walls in 3d and 4d manifolds | Sergei Gukov | Smith Point Beach | video |
| 3:30pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | ||
| Thursday 7/25 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | M-strings | Babak Haghighat | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| 6:30pm | John Morgan’s Workshop Party | John Morgan’s House | ||
| Friday 7/26 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Matter in F-theory from Singular Elliptic Fibrations | Jim Halverson | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Monday 7/29 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | M5-brane indices and 5d SYM | Seok Kim | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Tuesday 7/30 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | 2d index and surface defects | Abhijit Gadde | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| 6:00pm | Wine and Cheese Reception | Lobby | ||
| 6:30pm | Musical Performance | Anna Rabinova on violin and Leon Livshin on piano | 103 | video |
| Wednesday 7/31 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | ||
| 11:00am | Defect lines in 2d CFTs and their fusion | Daniel Roggenkamp | Smith Point Beach | video |
| 3:30pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | ||
| Thursday 8/1 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | BPS Defects in 6d (2,0) Theories | Kimyeong Lee | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| 6:30pm | Martin Rocek’s Workshop Party | Martin Rocek’s House | ||
| Friday 8/2 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Defects and orbifolds in two dimensions | Ingo Runkel | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Monday 8/5 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Line Defects and Multi-centered Quiver Quantum Mechanics | Clay Cordova | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Tuesday 8/6 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Surface defects in 3-d TFT and module categories | Jurgen Fuchs | 102 | part 1 part 2 talk 3 |
| 6:00pm | Wine and Cheese Reception | Lobby | ||
| 6:30pm | Musical Performance | Pianists Dina Wainstein and Leon Livshin | 103 | video |
| Wednesday 8/7 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | ||
| 11:00am | On lines in class-S theories and in q-deformed Yang-Mills | Yuji Tachikawa | Smith Point Beach | video |
| 3:30pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | ||
| Thursday 8/8 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Out of Equilibrium | Alexander Polyakov | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| 6:00pm | Jim Simon’s Avalon Workshop Party | Avalon Park and Preserve | ||
| Friday 8/9 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | 4d dualities and the lens space index | Shlomo Razamat | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Monday 8/12 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Geometry, entanglement and entropy | Juan Maldacena | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| Tuesday 8/13 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Topological Field Theory, Confinement, and Duality | Anton Kapustin | 102 | part 1 part 2 |
| 6:30pm | Martin Rocek’s Workshop Party | Martin Rocek’s House | ||
| Wednesday 8/14 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Leave for the Beach | Lobby | ||
| 11:00am | On quantized line defects and the AGT conjecture | Joerg Teschner | Smith Point Beach | video |
| 3:30pm | Leave the Beach- Back to the Center | Smith Point Beach | ||
| 6:30pm | Banquet hosted by Michael Bershadsky | Michael Bershadsky’s house | ||
| Thursday 8/15 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | Fluctuation-dissipation relation far from equilibrium | Hirosi Ooguri | 102 | video |
| 2:00pm | Classification of defects in 2D Yang-Mills | Sara Tavares | 102 | video |
| 5:30pm | “Synergy Ball in Origami” | Shrikant Iyer | 103 | video |
| 6:00pm | Wine and Cheese Reception | Lobby | ||
| 6:30pm | Musical Performance | Pianist Leon Livshin | 103 | video |
| Friday 8/16 | ||||
| Time | Title | Presenters | Room | Video |
| 10:00am | M-theory, Large N duality and Dynamics of Vortices | Mina Aganagic | 102 | partial part 2 |