Programme for November 2011
Where to go?
All lectures will take place at the IHP, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris.
Room 314 is on the third floor, and the Amphithéâtres Darboux and Hermite are on the ground floor.
Week 44: Workshop 2 (Hermite)
Week 45:
- Monday November 7, 10.00 am - 11.00 am
Maria HERMANNS: Bulk-edge correspondence in the entanglement
spectra (seminar)
- Monday November 7, 11.15 am - 12.15 pm
Thomas JACKSON: Projection Hamiltonians for clustered
quantum Hall wavefunctions (seminar)
- Wednesday November 9, 10.00 am - 11.00 am
Hirohiko SHIMADA: Coulomb gas partition function of bilayer
loop models on the torus (seminar)
- Wednesday November 9, 11.15 am - 12.15 pm
Malte HENKEL: Dynamical symmetries in phase-ordering kinetics (seminar)
- Thursday November 10, 10.00 am - 11.00 am
Jesper ROMERS: The modular S-matrix as an order parameter for topological phase transitions (seminar)
- Thursday November 10, 11.15 am - 12.15 pm
Jaakko NISSINEN: Modular RG potential for the quantum Hall effect (seminar)
Week 46:
- Wednesday November 16, 10.00 am - 11.00 am
Adam NAHUM: Statistics of loops and vortex lines in three dimensions
- Wednesday November 16, 11.15 am - 12.15 pm
Fiona BURNELL: Building fractional topological insulators
Week 47:
- Monday November 21, 10.00 am - 12.30 pm
Gordon SEMENOFF: Introduction to N=4 SYM theory
Lecture 1: An introduction to N=4. Conformal symmetry, N=4
supersymmetry beta function, protected operators.
- Tuesday November 22, 10.00 am - 12.30 pm
Slava RYCHKOV: Conformal blocks and bootstrap in D >= 3 (lecture)
- Wednesday November 23, 10.00 am - 12.30 pm
Gordon SEMENOFF: Introduction to N=4 SYM theory
Lecture 2: AdS/CFT for pedestrians. Large N expansion, AdS/CFT, Wilson loop.
- Thursday November 24, 10.00 am - 12.30 pm
Gordon SEMENOFF: Introduction to N=4 SYM theory
Lecture 3: An excursion into the holographic world.
Defect conformal field theories, d=3 holography.
- Friday November 25, 10.00 am - 12.30 pm
Konstantin ZAREMBO: Strings in Anti-de-Sitter target spaces
Lecture 1: AdS/CFT correspondence and conformal symmetry.
Spin chains and anomalous dimensions.
Week 48:
- Monday November 28, 10.00 am - 12.30 pm
Konstantin ZAREMBO: Strings in Anti-de-Sitter target spaces
Lecture 2: Bethe Ansatz in CFT. Integrability on the worldsheet.
- Tuesday November 29, 10.00 am - 12.30 pm
Sylvain RIBAULT: The large central charge limit in conformal field theory
(lecture)
- Wednesday November 30, 10.00 am - 12.30 pm
Konstantin ZAREMBO: Strings in Anti-de-Sitter target spaces
Lecture 3: Supersymmetric sigma-model with Anti-de-Sitter target spaces.
- Thursday December 1, 10.00 am - 11.00 am
Vladimir RITTENBERG: Non-local growth models and conformal
invariance (seminar)
- Friday December 2, 10.00 am - 11.00 am
Costas BACHAS: AdS4/CFT3 and localisation of gravity (seminar)
- Friday December 2, 11.30 am - 12.30 pm
Didina SERBAN: Finite size corrections for the folded string from integrability (seminar)