The list of references for Kalyana Rama's string theory course is here.

The coming week is going to be the busiest one in a long time. We have a veritable smorgasbord of THEP talks all lined up. Monday 11/3 CMI seminar2.00 pm, Lecture Hall 801 Extremal surfaces, de Sitter entropy and entanglement in ghost systemsK Narayan, Chennai Mathematical InstituteAbstract: We find connected codim-2 extremal surfaces stretching between … Continue reading Talks this Week →

Sujay Ashok (IMSc) will continue his series of lectures on Seiberg and Witten's exact solution of low energy effective action of N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories. He will be describing how embedding these gauge theories in string theory helps us to obtain the Seiberg-Witten solution explicitly. Title : Pedagogical lectures on N=2 supersymmetric gauge … Continue reading Lectures on N=2 Supersymmetric theories contd →

Kalyana Rama will give an introductory course on String Theory in IMSc, starting from Feb 18. We append his mail below: Hi, To those interested: I will give about 20 introductory lectures on string theory, in Hall 123, from 0930 to 1100 on mondays and wednesdays starting from 18 Feb 2019. A class on friday … Continue reading Introductory course on String Theory at IMSc →

Monday, Feb 11 3:30-5:00 PM Alladi Hall, IMSc Sunil Mukhi, IISER, Pune Towards a classification of two-character conformal field theories, Lecture 1 In the first talk I will give a brief survey of rational conformal field theories in two dimensions, including the interesting case of meromorphic theories. Thereafter I will review a method pioneered in 1988 by Mathur, … Continue reading Talks this Week →

Upcoming talks in the next two weeks (all at IMSc): Wednesday, February 6 11:30am – 12:30pm Aradhita Chattopadhyaya, IISc, Bangalore Alladi Hall Applications of moonshine symmetry in string theory ,Lecture 1 Abstract:"We study the properties of 1/4 BPS dyons in $latex {\cal N}=4$ type II string compactified on $latex K3 \times T^2$ orbifolded with an action … Continue reading Upcoming Talks →

The slides of Subramanya Hegde's talk titled 'A new N=2 density formula with applications to Real Scalar/Tensor multiplet' are now available here

Miguel Campiglia will be giving two talks on his current research on asymptotic symmetries at CMI and IMSc this Friday (01/02). CMI Seminar 11:30 AM, Lecture Hall 6 Asymptotic Symmetries and Soft Theorems IMSc Seminar 3:30 PM, Room 318 Asymptotic Charges in QED: moving beyond tree level

Subhroneel Chakrabarti (IMSc) will be delivering a series of four introductory lectures on String perturbation theory in CMI. The lectures start this Wednesday (30/01) and will be held on successive Wednesdays. The lectures will require no prerequisites beyond knowledge of QFT and GR. Details below: Dates: 30/01/19, 06/02/19, 13/02/19, 20/02/19 (Wednesdays); 3.15 pm; Venue: Lecture … Continue reading Introductory Lectures on String Perturbation Theory →

Happy New Year, everyone! Lots of talks lined up this week! Tuesday, 22 January 2019 CMI Seminar Speaker     : Marc Geiller Affiliation : ENS, Lyon Time        : 2 PM Venue       : Lecture Hall 5 Title       : Edge modes in Quantum Gravity and Gauge theory Wednesday, January 23 IMSc Seminar Speaker: Arghya Chattopadhyay (IISER Bhopal)Time: 15:30 … Continue reading Talks This Week →