Gauge Theories: Quivers, Tilings and Calabi-Yaus

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Gauge Theories: Quivers, Tilings and Calabi-Yaus

 12 - 16 May 2014

ICMS, 15 South College Street Edinburgh

Scientific Organiser:

  • Amihay Hanany, Imperial College London
  • Yang-Hui He, City University London, Nankai University & University of Oxford
  • Rak-Kyeong Seong, Korea Institute for Advanced Study

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Topics:

  • New dualities and their geometric interpretations and graphical representations

  • New field theories from new brane tilings

  • Classification of brane tilings and the associated geometries

  • Hilbert series and moduli spaces

  • Combinatorics and number theory for brane tilings

  • Connections to other fields: integrable systems, string scattering amplitudes, wall crossing

Speakers:

  • Nathan Broomhead, Leibniz Universität Hannover - Discrete Derived Categories 

  • Gregg Musiker, University of Minnesota - Aztec Castles and Other Instances of Brane Tilings in Combinatorics 

  • Charlie Beil, University of Bristol - The Geometry of Non-Superconformal Dimer Theories

  • Tom Bridgeland, University of Sheffield - Quadratic Differentials and Stability Conditions    

  • Richard Kenyon, Brown University - Integrability and Phase Transitions in the Graph Laplacian

  • Francisco Morales, University of Rome - U-Folds From Calabi-Yau Geometries  

  • Massimo Bianchi, University of Rome - Mass Deformations of Brane tilings

  • Domenico Orlando, École Normale Supérieure - What is the Next number? - Or - Sublattice Counting and Orbifolds 

  • Kazushi Ueda, Osaka University - Dimer Models and Group Actions

  • Piljin Yi, Korea Institute for Advanced Study - GLSM Partition Functions, the Gamma Class, and Quantum Volume 

  • Noppadol Mekareeya, CERN - A Systematic Study of Instanton Moduli Spaces

  • Stefano Cremonesi, Imperial College London - Coulomb Branches of 3d N=4 Superconformal Field Theories   

  • Kimyeong Lee, Korea Institute for Advanced Study - Exact Results on M5 Branes    

  • Alastair Craw, University of Bath - Reid's Recipe for Dimer Models  

  • Alastair King, University of Bath - Grassmannian Cluster Categories and Dimers on a Disc   

  • Jaemo Park, Pohang University of Science and Technology - Seiberg-Like Dualities in 2+1 Dimensions

  • Yang-Hui He, City University London, Nankai University & University of Oxford - Eta Products, BPS States and K3 Surfaces