RIT on Geometry and Physics Archives for Fall 2022 to Spring 2023
Oganizational Meeting for Fall 2021
When: Thu, September 2, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: Kirwan Hall 1313
Speaker: () -
An introduction to the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model
When: Thu, September 9, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: Kirwan Hall 1313
Speaker: Mike Winer (Dept. of Physics, UMd) -
Abstract: This will be an introduction to the SYK (Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev) model. Recommended reference: the first section or two of Juan Maldacena and Douglas Stanford, Comments on the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, Phys. Rev. D 94, 106002 (2016), https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07818 .
no meeting this week (Yom Kippur)
When: Thu, September 16, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere:
An introduction to the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model (cont'd)
When: Thu, September 23, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: online, Zoom Meeting ID: 926 8339 9101. Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode
Speaker: Mike Winer (Dept. of Physics, UMd) -
Abstract: This will be an introduction to the SYK (Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev) model. Recommended reference: the first section or two of Juan Maldacena and Douglas Stanford, Comments on the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, Phys. Rev. D 94, 106002 (2016), https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07818 .
The Schwarzian derivative and its relevance to conformal field theory
When: Thu, September 30, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: online, Zoom Meeting ID: 926 8339 9101. Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode
Speaker: Richard Wentworth (Math. Dept, UMd) -
More on the SYK model
When: Thu, October 7, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: online, Zoom Meeting ID: 926 8339 9101. Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode
Speaker: Ian Teixeira (Math. Dept, UMd) -
More on the Duistermaat-Heckman formula and the Schwarzian action
When: Thu, October 14, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: online, Zoom Meeting ID: 926 8339 9101. Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode
Speaker: Jonathan Rosenberg (Math. Dept, UMd) - http://math.umd.edu/~jmr/
Abstract: More about the Stanford - Witten paper "Fermionic localization of the Schwarzian theory" (JHEP (2017) 10, 008) and its mathematics background
Introduction to gravity in 1+1 dimensions
When: Thu, October 21, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: online, Zoom Meeting ID: 926 8339 9101. Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode
Speaker: Ian Teixera (Math. Dept, UMd) -
A semiclassical ramp in SYK
When: Thu, October 28, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: online, Zoom Meeting ID: 926 8339 9101. Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode
Speaker: Mike Winer (Physics Dept, UMd) -
Abstract: Discussion of the paper by Phil Saad, Stephen H. Shenker, and Douglas Stanford: A semiclassical ramp in SYK and in gravity, arXiv:1806.06840
Topological recursion: for fun and profit
When: Thu, November 4, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: online, Zoom Meeting ID: 926 8339 9101. Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode
Speaker: Elliot Kienzle (UMd) -
Topological recursion: For more fun and profit
When: Thu, November 11, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: online, Zoom Meeting ID: 926 8339 9101. Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode
Speaker: Elliot Kienzle (UMd) -
An introduction to exact WKB analysis
When: Thu, November 18, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: online, Zoom Meeting ID: 926 8339 9101. Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode
Speaker: Sze-HongKwong (UMd) -
Abstract: See
1) Iwaki, K. and Nakanishi, T. (2014). Exact WKB analysis and cluster algebras. Journalof Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 47(47), 474009.
2) Kawai, T. and Takei, Y. (2005). Algebraic analysis of singular perturbation theory. American Mathematical Society.
3) Voros symbols as cluster coordinates, Journal of Topology, 12(2019), 1031–1068.
An introduction to exact WKB analysis, part 2
When: Thu, December 2, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: online, Zoom Meeting ID: 926 8339 9101. Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode
Speaker: Sze-HongKwong (UMd) -
Abstract: See
1) Iwaki, K. and Nakanishi, T. (2014). Exact WKB analysis and cluster algebras. Journalof Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 47(47), 474009.
2) Kawai, T. and Takei, Y. (2005). Algebraic analysis of singular perturbation theory. American Mathematical Society.
3) Voros symbols as cluster coordinates, Journal of Topology, 12(2019), 1031–1068.
Putting holography to work in the SYK model
When: Thu, December 9, 2021 - 3:30pmWhere: online, Zoom Meeting ID: 926 8339 9101. Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode
Speaker: Mike Winer (UMd Physics) -
Abstract:
Organizational meeting for spring semester
When: Thu, January 27, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: () -
Abstract: Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
A tale of supersymmetry: The dark magic of integrable systems
When: Thu, February 3, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Elliot Kienzle (UMd) -
Abstract: Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
A tale of supersymmetry: The dark magic of integrable systems, 2, followed by intro to 4D N=2 SYM
When: Thu, February 10, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Elliot Kienzle followed by Richard Wentworth (UMd) -
Abstract: Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
Topological twists
When: Thu, February 17, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Lutian Zhao (UMd) -
Abstract: In this talk I will continue on the subject of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. I'll then try to explain the famous Kapustin-Witten paper (Commun. Number Theory Phys. 1 (2007), no. 1, 1–236) on geometric Langlands duality and how the whole picture comes from electro-magnetic duality.
Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and geometric Langlands duality
When: Thu, February 24, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Lutian Zhao (UMd) -
Abstract: In this talk I will continue on the subject of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. I'll then try to explain the famous Kapustin-Witten paper (Commun. Number Theory Phys. 1 (2007), no. 1, 1–236) on geometric Langlands duality and how the whole picture comes from electro-magnetic duality.
Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
What is a BPS state?
When: Thu, March 3, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Elliot Kienzle (UMd) -
Abstract: See D. Olive and E. Witten, Supersymmetry Algebras That Include Topological Charges, Phys. Lett. B 78 (1978), 97-101.
Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
introduction to Donaldson invariants
When: Thu, March 10, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Amin-Gholampour (UMd) -
Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
introduction to Seiberg-Witten theory
When: Thu, March 17, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Amin-Gholampour (UMd) -
Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
The u-plane integral
When: Thu, March 31, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Kwong Sze Hong (UMd) -
Abstract: See chapter 8 of the Labastida-Marino book.
Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
The Nekrasov partition function and the wall-crossing formula in Donaldson theory
When: Thu, April 7, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Amin-Gholampour (UMd) -
Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
Seeing the world through BPS states
When: Thu, April 14, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Elliot Kienzle (UMd) -
Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
Seeing the world through BPS states, part 2
When: Thu, April 21, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Elliot Kienzle (UMd) -
Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
Laurent Mirror Models
When: Thu, April 28, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Tristan Hubsch (Howard Univ Physics Dept) -
Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146
Laurent Mirror Models
When: Thu, May 5, 2022 - 3:30pmWhere: Online
Speaker: Tristan Hubsch (Howard Univ Physics Dept) -
Contact Dr. Rosenberg for passcode. Meeting is at https://umd.zoom.us/j/93718007146