Speaker: Falko Pientka (Max Planck, Dresden) Title: Topological superconductivity in conventional Josephson junctions Time: Thursday 2 May 2019, 11.00 am Abstract: Experimental studies of superconductors in low-dimensions and with interesting spin structure have become possible by engineering mesoscopic… Read More
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Last Updated: 9th July 2019 by George Rogers
Thursday 18th July : STP Seminar – Conformal symmetry breaking and self-similar spirals
Title: Conformal symmetry breaking and self-similar spirals Jacob Bernoulli’s Spira Mirabilis set free Speaker: Dr. Jemal Guven (ICN, UNAM ) Abstract: Self-similar curves are a recurring motif in nature. They also arise naturally as tension-free stationary states of… Read More
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Posted: 29th May 2019 by George Rogers
Tuesday 25th June : STP Seminar – Proving 5D AGT conjecture and Duality under Changing Preferred Directions
Title: Proving 5D AGT conjecture and Duality under Changing Preferred Directions Speaker: Masayuki Fukuda (University of Tokyo) Abstract: We give a proof for the factorization property of the arbitrary matrix elements of the multi-valent intertwining operator (or refined… Read More
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Last Updated: 18th June 2019 by George Rogers
Thursday 20th June : STP Seminar – Noncommutative algebraic structures
Title: Noncommutative algebraic structures Speaker: Natalia Iyudu (University of Edinburgh) Abstract: I will talk on one particular structure called pre-Calabi-Yau algebra. It was introduced around 2005 in attempt to describe a TQFT in case of open strings. This… Read More
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Last Updated: 7th June 2019 by George Rogers
Tuesday 18th June : STP Seminar – Surface Operators in 4d/2d Duality on TQFT picture of 4d N=2 Argyres-Douglas Theories
Title: Surface Operators in 4d/2d Duality on TQFT picture of 4d N=2 Argyres-Douglas Theories Speaker: Ruidong Zhu (DIAS) Abstract: In this talk, I will first give a brief review on the TQFT picture of 4d N=2 supersymmetric gauge… Read More
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Last Updated: 7th June 2019 by George Rogers
Thursday 13th June : STP Seminar – Geometry of branes from matrix models
Title: Geometry of branes from matrix models Speaker: Takaki Matsumoto (DIAS) Abstract: Matrix models are conjectured to give non-perturbative and constructive formulations of string and M theories. In the matrix models, various branes such as strings or membranes… Read More
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Last Updated: 21st May 2019 by George Rogers
Wednesday 29th May : STP Seminar – Microscopic description of Schwarzschild black hole from quantum field theory
Title: Microscopic description of Schwarzschild black hole from quantum field theory Speaker: Dr. Masanori Hanada (University of Southampton/Keio University) Abstract: The gauge/gravity duality relates black hole and QFT. In particular, the ‘small black hole’ in AdS5*S5, which is essentially… Read More
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Last Updated: 21st May 2019 by George Rogers
Tuesday 28th May : STP Seminar – Torsion and spin in holographic Lovelock Chern-Simons gravity
Title: Torsion and spin in holographic Lovelock Chern-Simons gravity Speaker: Gallegos Pazos (University of Utrecht) Abstract: The use of holography in the study of strongly coupled systems with a non-trivial spin current will be discussed. The incorporation of… Read More
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Last Updated: 13th May 2019 by George Rogers
Thursday 16th May : STP Seminar – Morse theory & the moduli space of flat connections
Title: Morse theory & the moduli space of flat connections Speaker: Prof. Paul Feehan (Rutgers, New Jersey) Abstract: We shall discuss a variety of results related to Morse (or Morse-Bott) theory for the Yang-Mills energy function on a… Read More
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Last Updated: 7th May 2019 by George Rogers
Thursday 9th May : STP Seminar – Edge modes in the Sierpinski Harper Hofstadter Butterfly Fractal
Title: Edge modes in the Sierpinski Harper Hofstadter Butterfly Fractal Speaker: Mikael Fremling (University of Utrecht) Abstract: We study the edge modes of the Sierpinski carpet at finite magnetic fields and characterise the transition from a Hofstadter spectrum… Read More
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Last Updated: 2nd May 2019 by Luuk Coopmans
Thursday 2nd May 11am: Topological superconductivity in conventional Josephson junctions
Speaker: Falko Pientka (Max Planck, Dresden) Title: Topological superconductivity in conventional Josephson junctions Time: Thursday 2 May 2019, 11.00 am Abstract: Experimental studies of superconductors in low-dimensions and with interesting spin structure have become possible by engineering mesoscopic… Read More
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