Simons Lecture Series on
Minimal Models of Gauge and String Theories

Nikita Nekrasov
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques

March 6, 13, 19, 20, 21 and 27, 2007

List of Topics:

  • Perturbative vs. non-perturbative physics and mathematics
  • Building the QFT on the moduli problem: quantum mechanics, sigma models, and gauge theory
  • Moduli spaces and their compactifications
  • Applications to supersymmetric theories: mirror symmetry and Seiberg-Witten theory
  • Towards new invariants of manifolds: improving on Donaldson with the help of Sullivan

    • All lectures will be held in the YITP Common Room 6-125. 

    Tuesday, March 6
12:50 – 2:10

Tuesday, March 13
9:50 – 11:10 

Monday, March 19
2:30 - 3:50 

Tuesday, March 20
9:50 – 11:10

Wednesday, March 21
2:30 - 3:50

Tuesday, March 27 
9:50 – 11:10

    (The Simons Foundation | Stony Brook University | C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics | Mathematics Department)

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