Research Seminar in Mathematics (MTH G450 - 30757)
Organized by Professor Jonathan Weitsman
Guest Speaker: Davide Gaiotto
Institute for Advanced Study
Title: Electric-magnetic duality and boundary conditions in N=4 Super Yang Mills theory
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: 509 Lake Hall
Pretalk I (1:00 - 2:00): Abstract:Field theories, and in particular supersymmetric gauge theory, have provided interesting insights on seemingly unrelated mathematical subjects. A recent example is the relation to the geometric Langlands program. I will describe some work on electric-magnetic duality for gauge theories defined on a space with boundaries. We uncovered a rich category of boundary conditions in supersymmetric gauge theory, which should have useful mathematical applications. I will discuss briefly how such boundary conditions may be translated into the language of geometric Langlands.:
Break (2:00 - 2:30)
Research Talk (2:30 - 3:30): Continuation of the pretalk.
Department tea (3:30 - 4:00)
Research Talk (4:00 - 5:00): Continued research talk.
Discussion at 5:00 p.m. followed by dinner with the speaker.
Previous Talks:
Fall 2008:9/16, 9/23, 10/07,10/28,11/18,12/02
Spring 2009:01-27
Started: 23 September 2008 Last modified: 20 February 2009
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