Exact Methods in Gauge/String Theories

PCTS, Princeton University, November 11 (Fri)-12 (Sat), 2011

See the conference web page for more information.

Speakers

M. Aganagic, D. Jafferis, S. Kachru, A. Kapustin, J. McGreevy, N. Nekrasov, V. Pestun, L. Rastelli, N. Seiberg, C. Vafa, E. Witten, X. Yin

Slides and Videos

Note: some talks are in blackboards, and some videos are missing or imcomplete.

Mina AGANAGIC, UC Berkeley
"Refined Chern-Simons Theory and Knot Homology", video
Shamit KACHRU, Stanford
"Maximally Supersymmetric Dirt", slides, video (the second half)
Anton KAPUSTIN, CalTech
"3d Seiberg Dualities with Tensor Matter", slides, video (the second half)
Daniel JAFFERIS, Harvard
"F-maximization and the 3d F-theorem", slides, video (the first half)
John MCGREEVY, MIT
"Non-Abelian Statistics versus The Witten Anomaly", slides, video (the first half)
Nikita NEKRASOV, IHES
"Derivation of refined vertex"
Vasily PESTUN, IAS
"Instanton calculus in quiver gauge theories", slides
Leonardo RASTELLI, SUNY, Stony Brook
"Gauge theories and Macdonald polynomials", slides, video
Nathan SEIBERG, IAS
"Supercurrents", slides, video (the first half)
Cumrun VAFA, Harvard
"Braids, Walls and Mirrors", slides (pptx, pdf) video
Edward WITTEN, IAS
"Superstring Perturbation Theory Revisited", slides, video
Xi YIN, Harvard
"Chern-Simons vector models and higher spin gauge theory", video (the second half)

Organizers

Benjamin Basso, Herman Verlinde and Masahito Yamazaki